Shout out to the Millemiglia loyalty program - which has been irrelevant for a couple years now (the airline stopped using it) and which is shuttering at the end of the year - for sending a Christmas greeting to all members. Because 🤷.

November numbers are out for Spirit; still lots of losses. Fewer planes flying means aircraft rent dropped $27mm from the prior month. That's less than pax revenue dropped ($264->$233mm). Oopsie. And the reorg benefits are lower than last month. Overall $72.6mm op loss, $54.6mm net loss.

JetBlue and Kenya Airways plan to initiate the proposed codeshare services on or about January 25, 2026, per a DOT filing. The KQ* code would be placed on JetBlue-operated flights linking to KQ service ex-JFK. Initial markets are JFK-ATL/FLL/LAX/MCO/ORD/PBI/PHX/RDU/SFO/SJU. #AvGeek

Italy's competition regulator fines Ryanair €255m www.rte.ie/news/busines...

ULA announces that CEO Tory Bruno is resigning after 12 years at the Boeing-LM joint venture "to pursue another opportunity." newsroom.ulalaunch.com/releases/sta...

Two things to consider here: 1) They say GPUs are more expensive than building a satellite and getting it into space. 2) Their primary customer is Crusoe, the company buying power generators from Boom Supersonic. Neither of those inspires confidence.

Coulson Aviation Launches Boeing 767 Very Large Air Tanker (VLAT) Conversion Program for Aerial Firefighting www.heliopsmag.com/airattack/ne...

Solar noon shadows in Anchorage on the winter solstice.

Amazingly enough, this judge’s scathing sanctions order (“There’s a difference between a seasoned, good lawyer and somebody who uses AI to look like one”) doesn’t even address the horrible taste required to look at the wide array of LLMs available and then choose MechaHitler.

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

Good round up of the near-disastrous last five years for AAL and efforts to right the ship.

Ride, and park, with pride! After the Florida state government banned rainbow crosswalks, one city has found a workaround: rainbow bike racks! 🚲🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.advocate.com/politics/st-...

A guy flew a glider from Nevada all the way to freaking Kansas on Friday 12 hours and 1200 miles in the air with no engine. Dudes rock

Happy birthday, Duane. You'd be 61 this year. I was rereading the article about you, and apparently you used to do activism work while wearing a t-shirt reading “That’s Mr. Fag to You". Damn, you were an absolute badass.

There's been lots of commentary about Finnair's new Melbourne flight. Part that struck us was how none is supported by any data, just lots of vibes. You'd be less surprised if you saw some data ...

Remains absolutely wild to me we have a functional cure for HIV/AIDS.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Mesa & Republic Flight Attendants reached a tentative agreement for a joint contract that includes boarding pay that matches the standard mainline formula (50%) and other improvements, while maintaining the right to full Section 6 negotiations in Jan 2027. www.afacwa.org/mesa_republi...

How bad has 2025 been? We broke time.

Community Request❗ I'm looking for weight data for Tornado F3. All I could find is from the Crowood book👇🏻 Tornado ADV empty: 14,450 kg Internal fuel: 1,920 gal (7,268 L) Any Tonka fans that can help me out❓

Ratings downgrade from S&P late Friday for Brightline's Florida ops. The agency now anticipates lower revenue growth, owing to fares "drastically discounted to encourage new riders [proving] particularly sticky," meaning it won't hit revenue targets. Expects parent company to default in Jan '27.

🥔🥞🎉 Anyone else coming over for latkes tonight?? If so, can you bring more potatoes? I'm not sure 8 pounds will be enough.

As a disabled guy, I don't care that much about a few abled people faking disabilities. My concern lies with the myriad disabled people who have talked themselves into thinking they aren't disabled and hurt themselves over and over trying to stay invisible.

Listen others have noted that this study is flawed, but hey, so many people right now are living in their own horrible, shitheaded realities, let me live in the one where eating SHARP CHEDDAR leaves me with a SHARP MIND.

A Starlink satellite experienced a "kinetic" event and rapidly shifted orbit on Wednesday. SpaceX says it lost contact with (and control of) the satellite. The incident also created a small debris field in the LEO orbital plane. www.reuters.com/science/star... #IFEC

We had a photo on JetPhotos on 14 Dec. But interestingly, none since. www.jetphotos.com/photo/keywor...

EVE completed the first flight of its full-scale, uncrewed eVTOL prototype, kicking off the test phase of the aircraft's operational validation and certification efforts. The company plans a fleet of six test aircraft for the certification campaign. #AvGeek $EVEX

JetBlue's got a new livery out celebrating its Boston hub. Flight tracking data suggests N537JT returned to service a week ago, so I'm not quite sure how the livery wasn't revealed until now. 🤔 #AvGeek

Astrova, the newest inflight entertainment offering from Panasonic Avionics, now holds contracts to fly on more than 100 airline programs, just three years after its launch. #IFEC #PaxEx #AvGeek

Astrova, the newest inflight entertainment offering from Panasonic Avionics, now holds contracts to fly on more than 100 airline programs, just three years after its launch. #IFEC #PaxEx #AvGeek

Big difference between running multiple brands in the same market/directly competing versus nearby/same region. 🤷

New PJs flying in Emirates first class cabins from this month. And 300-count cotton linens coming from January. #PaxEx

Air Transat now expects A321XLR deliveries to start in 2027 www.flightglobal.com/fleets/air-t...

The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...

This is an incredible #avgeek statistic.

Oh my god…

@theicct.org's Daniel Sitompul vs. Mr. Beast. www.thecooldown.com/green-busine...

I love when folks tells these losers no. Get fucked, Key Lime Air 🤷🏾‍♂️

Spirit Airlines' N628NK will be flying around with a special livery this winter. The plane put on its "ugly sweater" for the season, including a special 2-2 cabin layout (only in the paint, not inside). 👀 #AvGeek

I've driven through this intersection in similar conditions. It really is this bad.

Interesting detail in the new United High-J Polaris seat map: Most of the bulkhead "Studio" seats have a seatbelt for the ottoman side, but the two at the front middle do not. So you can buddy dine there, but not as safely. 🤔 #PaxEx

These orgs all fucked themselves by deciding to call everything AI. NOAA could've called it many other things. They chose the name closely associated with the bullshit engine. They catch that flak. Don't want to be associated with the terrible AI stuff? That's easy to avoid.

This is a fun seasonal(??) route from BOS. 👀

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

BIG leadership change at Delta. President Glen Hauenstein set to retire Feb. 28, 2026, CCO Joe Esposito will be successor. news.delta.com/delta-presid...

Veto day in New Hampshire! Mixed bag of feelings: We're going to keep some very bad bills dead. But we also have to agree with the Governor. #nhpolitics

If a solar storm was powerful enough to knock out every satellite’s ability to maneuver, the Kessler Syndrome would be pretty low on society’s list of concerns.

Oracle’s 10-Q “detailed $248 billion of lease-payment commitments, ‘substantially all’ related to data centers .. but they’re not yet included on its balance sheet .. “..’CreditSights analysts called the lease disclosure a ‘bombshell.’” @bloomberg.com $ORCL www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A couple interesting things here... 1) Contracts (or T&Cs) of adhesion are still contracts and still enforcable 2) Mention that carrying a cell phone is different from connecting to the internet, despite those two being inherently intertwined now. The law hasn't caught up.

A week later my account still hadn't updated. With a bit of help, however, my Ryan Bingham days are over. My account officially shows all 25 destinations hit! 🥳🥳 #25for25