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The airline industry faces a projected shortage of 34,000 pilots globally by 2025, forcing airlines to step up recruitment over the next decade.

TSA officers screened just over 1 million passengers at airport checkpoints nationwide on Tuesday, the lowest number since late April as the coronavirus pandemic continues to hinder the industry.

Long-haul carrier Emirates said Thursday it would resume its Boeing 777 flights to the U.S. amid an ongoing dispute over the rollout of new 5G services there.

Former FCC chairman Ajit Pai debunks rumors that 5G signals will interfere with aviation safety on 'The Claman Countdown.'

Biden says the agreement will "avoid potentially devastating disruptions to passenger travel, cargo operations, and our economic recovery, while allowing more than 90 percent of wireless tower deployment to occur as scheduled" and "bring more high-speed internet options to millions of Americans."

After a series of delays, Verizon and AT&T are slated to roll out new 5G service on Wednesday utilizing C-band transmissions.

The FAA has issued an airworthiness directive requiring Boeing 787 operators to take additional precautions when landing on wet or snowy runways at airports where 5G C-band service is deployed. Approximately 137 aircraft in the U.S. and 1,010 worldwide will be impacted by the order.

Within the first two weeks of 2022, the FAA has received 76 unruly passenger reports, down 50% around the same time in 2021. About 43 of the reported cases were mask-related incidents.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China first grounded the MAX in 2019 after two crashes.

TSA released its "Top 10 Catches of 2021!" on Twitter this week, revealing most obscure items officers have found at airports around the nation. Some are "quite alarming," a spokesperson said.

United has canceled 149 flights and delayed 42, according to tracking website FlightAware as of Tuesday.

Several airports throughout the Northeast announced flight cancelations Friday as a winter storm sweeps the region making travel treacherous.

To date, the FAA has launched 1,075 investigations into passenger behavior on flights this year, which is the highest total since the agency started keeping track in 1995.

For over a week during the busiest time of the year airlines have been forced to change or scrap flights due to a mix of bad weather and coronavirus-related staffing shortages.

Wintry weather combined with the pandemic to frustrate air travelers whose return flights home from the holidays were canceled or delayed in the first days of the new year.

Federal officials are urging the chief executives of AT&T and Verizon Communications to delay plans to introduce their new 5G wireless services next week due to safety concerns with aircraft operations.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is warning that travelers may face delays in the coming days due to an increased number of employees testing positive for COVID-19 -- at a time when Americans have been dogged by flight cancellations due to the ongoing pandemic.

Flight cancellations will continue into the new year as JetBlue Airways announced it is cutting more than 1,000 flights amid a surge in the number of sick calls from its staff due to the coronavirus' omicron variant.

The spread of the coronavirus' omicron variant continues to hammer the airline industry with a slew of new flight delays and cancellations on Wednesday.

Ethiopian Airlines announced Monday that it will resume Boeing 737 Max flights in February, nearly three years after a crash left 157 people dead.