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United Airlines is a major US carrier operating domestic and international passenger and cargo flights, part of United Airlines Holdings.
United says nearly half its flights now have Starlink Wi-Fi, with a new tool to check yours and full fleet coverage targeted by the end of 2027. The checker is dependable only close to departure, because aircraft swaps can still change the answer.
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Delta Air Lines cut its full-year earnings forecast to $5.10-$5.60 a share from $6.50-$7.50 after its third-quarter fuel bill rose 62% to $4.1 billion. With fares already up about a quarter and seat growth speeding up, rivals have less room to pass on the next fuel increase.
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Call4me's AI caller took a median 3:07 to reach a person across 11 AI-first calls, against 1:56 across 19 calls that opened with a phone menu. The calls are Call4me's own and mostly placed by its product, so the gap describes one agent against one set of account checks.
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Meta's Muse agent has been booted from Walmart purchases by a verify-you're-human button, even though Walmart is a Muse partner and calls the failures unintentional. For anyone building agent commerce, each site's bot defence now decides whether a task gets finished.
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Amazon has started blocking Meta's Muse agent from browsing or buying on its store, one of several sites turning consumer AI agents away. Each site now sets its own terms for agents, so the teams who run checkout need a plan for agents as well as for people.
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FAA safety experts ruled a 737 Max software glitch poses no safety concern, clearing a late obstacle to Boeing's Max 10 and its nearly 1,500 orders. Officials told Reuters approval could come as soon as later this month, with crews following an interim procedure until Boeing finishes a software fix.
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United Airlines is giving Delta and American elite flyers 90 days of matching status, kept through January 2028 only if they spend $1,500 to $7,000 on United. United pays for those 90 days of elite perks up front and collects only from flyers who move real spending.
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United is matching the elite status of Delta and American fliers and pitching Starlink Wi-Fi, on about a third of its fleet, as the reason to switch. That puts in-flight connectivity at the center of the fight for the carriers' most valuable fliers, though the evidence that it moves them is so far limited to social-media posts.
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More than 40 million people in the US Northeast are bracing for an unusually strong nor'easter, with gusts over 60 mph and up to 13 cm of rain forecast. Airlines and event organisers have already changed plans. Warnings about damaged power lines mean operators should plan for outages this weekend.
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Academic researchers hijacked the link between two Boeing 737 flight computers with a coin-sized board. The constraint was never budget or code. It was who can reach the nose bay.
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Field tests at NASA Ames put the taxi clearance into data the aircraft can follow by itself, with a sensor suite watching for vehicles in its path. NASA says the workload fell for pilots and controllers alike.
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Craig Celek told Business Insider that he left a leadership role at Saks Off 5th for Delta cabin crew at 55, and that three US carriers had offered him work. It is one candidate's account of one hiring cycle.
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United, Southwest and American told Morgan Stanley's Laguna Conference that high fuel means fewer flights and higher fares this winter. Their own CFOs say fuel reaches fares with a lag, so the increase lands on first-quarter bookings.
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The airlines spent weeks asking the FAA to narrow SMART, and the version debuting this month hands controllers route advice at the three Washington-area airports under a 90-day test. The agency's own officials describe it as both record speed and a slow roll.
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Scott Kirby approached American and, reportedly, Delta this year, and the arithmetic of what a combination would hold is now on the record even though no seller has agreed to sell anything.
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JetBlue's premium unit revenue grew 13% last quarter against 11% in Main Cabin. The airline is answering with a domestic first-class cabin in every market its Mint business class does not already serve.
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A Waterloo undergraduate was told to burn SIM cards and keep his Huawei phone out of the country. What got him noticed was standing on a forklift in a FedEx employee lot.
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KLM's first A350 will fly from October with all 34 business seats blocked. Lufthansa launched with four of 28. Bespoke premium layouts have outrun the approval queue.
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86 devices, 32,000 training events a year, and a nine-month recurrent cycle for 18,000 pilots. The arithmetic leaves roughly a quarter of the plant for hiring.
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American will put 4K screens at every seat on new narrowbodies from 2028 and add premium seats fleetwide. The driver is a profit gap CNBC puts at about $3bn to United and nearly $5bn to Delta.
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