FAA Investigating: Pilots Heard Meowing and Barking Over Air Traffic Control Radio at DCA In one of the more bizarre and funny things I have seen while covering the travel industry over the last few decades, pilots were heard making cat and dog sounds… Johnny Jet , April 16, 2026
Expect Major Delays at San Francisco International Airport This Year—Here’s How to Plan Accordingly If you’re flying through San Francisco International Airport (SFO), build in extra time—because new federal safety restrictions combined with runway construction are significantly reducing the airport’s capacity and increasing the… Johnny Jet , April 11, 2026
Airline Execs Cheer as U.S. Drops Passenger Compensation Rule for Delays Airline executives across the United States are celebrating after the Trump administration announced it is formally abandoning a plan that would have required airlines to compensate passengers for significant flight… Johnny Jet , November 17, 2025
Loaded Magazine Found on Frontier Flight Causes Four-Hour Delay Travelers flying out of Atlanta this past Sunday got more excitement than expected when a loaded ammunition magazine was discovered on a Frontier Airlines flight. According to WSB-TV, the magazine… Johnny Jet , November 12, 2025
FAA to Cut Flights at 40 Major U.S. Airports Starting Tomorrow Amid Ongoing Government Shutdown With the government shutdown dragging into another week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced plans to reduce air traffic by 10% at 40 of the nation’s busiest airports beginning tomorrow… Johnny Jet , November 5, 2025
FAA Halts Departures at Dallas Airports After Equipment Malfunction About an hour after sending my daily travel tip newsletter (you can sign up for free here) I learned about a technical issue at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW)…. Johnny Jet , September 19, 2025
Breaking: FAA halts flights into Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach and Orlando airports due to ‘space launch debris’ The FAA has just issued a surprising reason for flight delays in parts of Florida. SpaceX lost another Starship (Starship 8) shortly after its launch from Texas, prompting flight diversions… Johnny Jet , March 6, 2025
Thousands of Flights Delayed or Canceled Due to FAA Server Outage I woke up at 5am HST, which is 10am EST and my phone was blowing up about the FAA server outage. There was a ground stop for nearly two hours… Johnny Jet , January 11, 2023
Just Because a Florida Judge Overturned CDC Mask Mandate for Planes Doesn’t Mean You Can Fly Without One One of my buddies just called me up and asked if I’d seen the news about the judge in Florida who just struck down the federal mask mandate as being… Johnny Jet , April 18, 2022
BREAKING: Boeing 737 Max Has A New Issue and 16 Airlines Are Grounding It This is terrible news for Boeing and will probably cause disruption to thousands of travelers as a lot of flights will be canceled. Boeing just sent this news release out,… Johnny Jet , April 9, 2021
FAA’s Brilliant Advice on Packing Perishable Goods Greetings! Every morning, I look at the TSA throughput numbers and they’ve been great for airlines and airports … at least for the short term. But they’ve been terrible for… Johnny Jet , November 25, 2020
Some 15″ MacBook Pros Have Been Banned From Flights In case you missed it, earlier this summer Apple warned that the batteries contained in 15″ MacBook Pros sold “primarily between September 2015 and February 2017” pose an elevated safety… Johnny Jet , September 2, 2019
How to Find Out How Safe a Country’s Airlines Are After the crash of Lion Air Flight 610 near Jakarta on Monday, the New York Times ran an interesting story titled “How Safe Is Your Airline?” It turns out that… Johnny Jet , October 31, 2018
