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United Airlines flight attendants are set to vote on a new tentative agreement being proposed by the US carrier and the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA. On March 26, 2026, United Airlines stated that, if the contract agreement was accepted by its 30,000 flight attendants, they would receive “industry-leading wages, better scheduling and other improvements”. “The new agreement includes immediate raises upon ratification and top wage rates that reach $100 per hour by the end of the agreement, making United flight attendants the best-paid in the industry,” United Airlines said. “It also includes boarding pay, new pay for long gaps between…

As we all know, American has become a distant third among the “big three” US carriers when it comes to both profitability and passenger experience. The issue is that American has essentially squandered the past decade plus trying to become less premium, focusing on a strategy of “the schedule is the product.” Suffice it to say that the airline has realized that this strategy doesn’t work (as have employees, customers, and investors). In recent times, we’ve seen American try to become more premium once again, realizing that’s the only way to compete with Delta and United. So along those lines,…

Star Alliance has opened a new Star Connection Center at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), its ninth such facility worldwide and the latest in the airline group’s series of efforts to streamline transfers for passengers connecting between member airlines. More than 350,000 passengers transfer between Star Alliance carriers at LAX each year, making it one of the alliance’s busiest hubs in North America. The center is designed to assist travelers with tight connections, using dedicated agents and specialized software to identify passengers at risk of missing onward flights due to delays. When required, staff meet arriving passengers at the gate…

Homes & Hideaways by World of Hyatt is Hyatt’s vacation rental platform. The idea is that you can rent a vacation home while still being able to earn and redeem points. Well, if there are any upcoming vacation rentals you’re considering, this might be a good time to give Hyatt’s platform a try. Earn 2x World of Hyatt points on vacation rentals World of Hyatt is offering 2x points on Homes & Hideaways vacation rentals, as flagged by Frequent Miler. There are surprisingly few terms associated with this, as it’s valid for stays that are consumed between March 23 and…

Bleeder plugs offer a simple and effective way to deal with trapped air or excess fluid in sealed systems. While they look like ordinary threaded caps, bleeder plugs follow a strict design. You can even find them in aerospace standards, such as AN814. Regardless, bleeder plugs make it easy to release or “bleed” excess fluid or trapped air. What Are Bleeder Plugs? Bleeder plugs are threaded fittings used to release trapped air or excess fluid in sealed systems. Also known as bleeder caps, they feature a short threaded body, a sealing seat, a bleed hole and a head. You can…

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released footage of the LaGuardia Airport (LGA) crash site from the early stages of its investigation into the tragedy. Made public on March 26, 2025, the video shows the staggering scale of the collision on Runway 4 and the impact on both the Air Canada Express Bombardier CRJ900 and the fire truck. During her first media briefing on March 23, 2026, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy told reporters that, following the crash, a “tremendous amount of debris” had been found across the runway and taxiway. While several photos have already been shared of the…

Russian aviation blogger Pavel Koshkin was killed when the Alto NG aircraft he was flying crashed near Kolomna, southeast of Moscow, in an incident that Russian news outlet Mediazona reported may have involved a case of mistaken identity by Russian air defenses. According to Mediazona, the aircraft went down on March 20, 2026, near the bank of the Oka River, killing two people on board. Russia’s emergency ministry confirmed the crash, while Rosaviatsiya, the country’s civil aviation authority, opened an investigation, but had not announced a preliminary cause as of March 26. Mediazona identified Koshkin, 39, as the pilot of…

This has been a mighty long process, so let’s hope things go more smoothly this time than last time… United & AFA reach tentative agreement on new contract The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) and United Airlines have announced that they’ve reached a tentative agreement on a new contract for 30,000 flight attendants. For some background, in recent years we’ve seen flight attendants at most major airlines in the United States negotiate new contracts, following the pandemic. Delta flight attendants aren’t unionized, so they get proactive pay raises, but don’t negotiate new contracts in the same way, since they don’t…

The union representing around 5,000 workers building the F-35 at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth, Texas, plant has opened contract negotiations with the company, with talks beginning on March 26, 2026. The workers are represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 776, which covers production employees at the Fort Worth facility, the main final assembly site for all three F-35 variants, as well as smaller groups at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland and Edwards Air Force Base in California. District 776 said its bargaining committee entered talks backed by IAM International President Brian Bryant…

President Trump claims that employees at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will start getting paid, despite there being no end in sight for the partial government shutdown. That could spell the end of chaos at airports… maybe? Trump claims he found a way to pay TSA employees Over the past several weeks, we’ve increasingly seen chaos at airports in the United States, given the partial government shutdown, with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) not being funded. We’re seeing a record number of TSA employees calling in sick, as they haven’t been paid for their last three paycheck periods, and…