An Awful Week In Commercial Aviation

An Awful Week In Commercial Aviation

From Aviation Week's Window Seat Podcast by Aviation Week

March 27, 2026 · 33 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges faced by airlines due to various crises including airspace closures and high oil prices.

ATW and Routes editors discuss how the world's airlines are adapting to airspace and airport closures, record high oil prices, a fatal crash in the U.S. and chaos at airport security screening. For more details on the TSA situation discussed in this episode, check out Aaron Karp's latest update .

Topics covered

  • airline adaptation
  • airport closures
  • oil prices
  • aviation safety
  • airport security

Keywords

  • commercial aviation
  • airlines
  • airport security
  • oil prices
  • aviation news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ATW, Routes

Places: U.S.

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