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"Background music is no longer an afterthought at many airports, which are hiring local musicians and carefully curating playlists to help lighten travelers’ moods."

I have a distinct memory of hearing and seeing a pilot play a baby grand piano in Frankfurt airport during a transfer, and it was such a pleasant impromptu experience. I welcome both thoughtfully curated recorded & live music in airports. It's a win also for local talent.

"Former National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Air Safety Investigator Gregory Feith joins WIRED to answers the internet’s burning questions about aviation accidents. What’s the safest seat on an airplane? How likely are you to be in an aviation accident? At what stage of flight to most accidents occur? Can a flock of birds really bring down a jet? Why don’t planes have parachutes to prevent crashing? What happens if a window on a plane cracks during flight? And what really happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? Answers to these questions and many more await on Aviation Accident Support."

"The flight map isn’t the least entertaining thing on a plane—it’s the most...
While numbers fluctuate depending on region and route, industry data holds that 70 percent of passengers use their seat’s IFE during a flight. Of those, about half shun movies, TV, and games in order to watch the map."

Oct. 20 is International Day of the Air Traffic Controller. You don't need to know who the host Michelle Khare is, you can just follow her experience trying ATCing as an ab initio. I was more interested in the behind-the-scenes (BTS) of FAA's training academy in Oklahoma City.

Fears of a broader conflict between Israel and its Middle East neighbors like Iran and Lebanon are complicating flights in one of the most densely traversed regions of the world. Some airlines deem Taliban-controlled Afghanistan a safer route than Iran or Israel now.

WSJ explains how commercial airlines adjust to the volatile situation in the Middle East.