REQUIEM FOR A MARVEL
How come the company that created the world’s most amazing traveling machine became the company that can’t get anything right?
Clive Irving is senior consulting editor at Condé Nast Traveler, specializing in aviation; and the author of Wide-Body: The Triumph of the 747 (Morrow).
opinion
THE DEPARTMENT OF DO-NOTHING
As new cases surge in Sun Belt states, so do airline flights as bargain seat prices fuel a summer boom.
MASKED
Trump officials turn a deaf ear as pols and passenger advocates warn that the next wave of infection could come to an airport near you.
AIRBORNE VIRUS
The Trump administration is banning Chinese passenger carriers from the U.S. as it pressures Beijing to allow U.S. air carriers to resume flights. Here’s what happened.
opinion
CONDEMNED TO REPEAT
The bitter divides in the United States are not new, and unfortunately neither is the multiplication of error that can turn wars—or pandemics—into quagmires.
BIG CHANGES
One thing is for sure about the post-virus future of international air travel. Big is out—both for the airplanes and for a lot of airports.
VICTORY LAP
As we struggle to defeat a new, lethally pervasive enemy, this is a moment to understand that enduring victory is less a moment than a process.
opinion
PAYBACK TIME
We were in a war for survival before, and we found the people to win it. That can be done again, but only if Trump gets out of the way.
VIRGIN IN DISTRESS!
The creator of Virgin Atlantic has been in a 36-year feud with his main rival. Now he’s offering up his own Caribbean island as collateral. It may not be enough.
BLOOD, TOIL, TEARS, AND SWEAT
What does it take to face the Apocalypse? We are now learning something important about what we need and who has to provide it. But are we up to it?
