The new location offers direct planeside recovery, immediate unit load device (ULD) transfers to the facility and reduced processing fees.

The deal will help ease pressure on United, which has come under criticism after a series of delays and cancellations to flights, even as it experiences soaring demand.

Moving into the summer, freight forwarders sit in an advantageous position to drive pricing down and demand on-time performance.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg hit back at the airlines, particularly United, saying the carrier has suffered out-sized impacts while others have recovered.

The U.S. plane maker’s latest tally of industry-wide deliveries over the next 20 years takes into account growing activism over jet emissions.

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association union has called on Congress to provide what it sees as its biggest challenge to reducing risk: funding.

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc. is preparing to make a so-called best-and-final offer during the week of June 15 to about 6,000 unionized employees. 

The agreement prevents a possible strike after 99% of FedEx Express pilots voted in favor of union leaders authorizing a strike May 17.

Most of the cancellations, which come on the busiest day for U.K. air travel since 2019, are for European and domestic flights.

Boeing CEO David Calhoun made the comments about supply chain constraints May 23 during a Qatar Economic Forum panel held in Doha.