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02:04PAXNo Wallet, No Boarding Pass: How TSA Quietly Rolled Digital ID Out to 250 AirportsJUST IN02:04ACFInside Pratt & Whitney's $125 Million Polish Bet: Why One Country Now Builds Parts for the GTF, the F-35 and the F-16 All at OnceUPDATED02:04SAF120 Knots and No Runway Left: Inside the Rejected Takeoff That Shut Gatwick's Only RunwayNEW02:04SAF$3.1 Million for Hundreds of Violations: What Boeing Actually Paid for the Door-Plug BlowoutNEW
No Wallet, No Boarding Pass: How TSA Quietly Rolled Digital ID Out to 250 Airports
TSA's Touchless ID and Digital ID programs have expanded to 65 and more than 250 US airports respectively, letting millions of travelers clear security with a face scan or a phone instead of a physical card.
Rajkumar Agarwal · 5 September 2026
Aircraft & Manufacturing
Inside Pratt & Whitney's $125 Million Polish Bet: Why One Country Now Builds Parts for the GTF, the F-35 and the F-16 All at Once
Safety & Regulation
120 Knots and No Runway Left: Inside the Rejected Takeoff That Shut Gatwick's Only Runway
Safety & Regulation
$3.1 Million for Hundreds of Violations: What Boeing Actually Paid for the Door-Plug Blowout
No Wallet, No Boarding Pass: How TSA Quietly Rolled Digital ID Out to 250 Airports
TSA's Touchless ID and Digital ID programs have expanded to 65 and more than 250 US airports respectively, letting millions of travelers clear security with a face scan or a phone instead of a physical card.
5 September 2026Look, Walk, Gone: Inside Newark's New Three-Second Security Gates
No-Frills No More: Southwest Airlines Is Building Its First-Ever Airport Lounges
Inside Pratt & Whitney's $125 Million Polish Bet: Why One Country Now Builds Parts for the GTF, the F-35 and the F-16 All at Once
RTX's Pratt & Whitney is investing $25 million to expand a tubular-assembly plant in Niepołomice, Poland, its second Polish investment in five months and part of a $125 million bet on the country that will add over 120 jobs and 30% more output of critical engine parts by 2028.
5 September 2026Six Planes to Sixty: FLY91's $1 Billion Bet on 40 More ATR Turboprops
120 Knots and No Runway Left: Inside the Rejected Takeoff That Shut Gatwick's Only Runway
A Norse Atlantic 787-9 aborted its takeoff roll at roughly 120 knots on Gatwick's single runway on September 4, triggering a 50-minute closure that rippled across the airport's entire schedule.
5 September 2026$3.1 Million for Hundreds of Violations: What Boeing Actually Paid for the Door-Plug Blowout
Missing Chamfers, Both Pylons: Inside the FAA's New A350-1041 Fastener Order
Air India Ends Its Summer of Cuts: 145 Weekly Flights Return as New York and Tokyo Get More Seats
Air India is bringing back most of the 145 weekly international flights it slashed over a brutal summer of fuel costs and airspace restrictions — and adding extra frequencies to New York, Tokyo and five European cities for the winter season.
5 September 2026Air India Express Hits 64 Destinations — and Finally Gives Northeast India a Direct Line to the Gulf
Pena Meets LATAM CEO: New Asuncion-Montevideo Flights
Dulles Kills the Mobile Lounge: Inside the $700 Million Concourse Ending 64 Years of Bus Rides to the Plane
Washington Dulles opens Concourse E on September 30, 2026 — its first new concourse in decades, a 14-gate, $700 million United hub built to finally end the airport's iconic diesel mobile lounges.
4 September 2026