Analysts estimate the US is 10,000 pilots short.

The FAA, airlines and flight tracking websites reported smooth travel over the Memorial Day period and significant improvements over 2022 performance, including cancellation rates far below recent years.

Rising numbers of disputes between travellers and airlines globally are driving fresh legislation and calls for tougher enforcement of existing rules to protect consumers.

It is the latest in a series of moves by the Biden administration to crack down on airlines and bolster passenger consumer protections.

Travel has remained robust even as rising inflation is making leisure activities more expensive.

Anthony Loke says ticket prices are based on a dynamic pricing system.

The 9 millimetre bullets were found by a passenger shortly before the jet was to take off with 218 passengers and 12 crew members on board, leading to the plane to return to the terminal.

Questions will also be raised on the People's Income Initiative, and whether the government will bring back the goods and services tax.

Airports, airlines and government agencies have been staffing up to avoid crippling labour shortages that curbed capacity and led to travel headaches last summer.

The deals include 220 planes from Boeing and 250 from Airbus and eclipse previous records for a single airline as Air India vies with domestic giant IndiGo to serve what will soon be the world's largest population.

Airlines operating at British airports will have to use 80% of their take-off and landing slots in order to keep them, the government says, as it brings the industry back in line with pre-pandemic rules.

Carriers are enjoying the strongest travel demand since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, boosted by reopening of closed borders, a strong US dollar and rising corporate travel.