About The Air Gazette
The Air Gazette explains the why behind aviation news.
When your flight gets cancelled, the headline is the cancellation. The real story is the engine parts shortage, the crew duty-time rule, the slot constraint, or the maintenance bottleneck that made it inevitable. That second story — the structural one — is what we cover, because once you understand it, you start to see the patterns behind every fare change, route cut, and delay.
We sit between two kinds of aviation publications that don't quite serve the curious traveler. Consumer travel sites tell you which seat to pick and how to claim compensation. Trade publications cover the industry from the inside, often behind paywalls, written for executives. The Air Gazette is for the serious traveler, frequent flyer, or industry-adjacent reader who wants to know how aviation actually works — the regulatory mechanics, the fleet decisions, and the operational constraints that shape every route, fare, and delay you experience.
If you've ever wondered why your favorite long-haul route suddenly disappeared, why one airline always seems to be on time and another doesn't, or why a brand-new aircraft is grounded six months after delivery — that's the kind of question we exist to answer.
We use what we call a Structural Impact framework. Every story we publish is evaluated against three questions.
- 01 What operational or regulatory constraint is driving this news?
- 02 Who benefits and who absorbs the cost — including passengers?
- 03 What does this signal about the next 6–12 months in the sector?
If a story can't answer those three questions, we don't run it.
This means we publish less than aviation news aggregators do. We don't rewrite press releases. We don't chase breaking news for the click. We publish when we have something to add — a constraint to explain, a consequence to map out, a contradiction to surface.
Read the full Methodology.
What we don't usually cover
We don't publish standard travel tips, seat reviews, lounge ratings, or destination guides. Those are well covered elsewhere by sites that do it better than we would.
We make exceptions when something genuinely interesting is going on — a new business class cabin that signals a strategic shift, a lounge closure that hints at a hub realignment, a destination opening up because of a route economics change. If we cover the consumer side of aviation, it's because there's a structural story underneath worth telling.
The masthead
The Air Gazette is a small editorial team led by Greg Barlow, reporting on US and global commercial aviation with occasional coverage of military and business aviation when the structural story warrants it. We launched in 2026.
We're new. We're small. We expect to earn your attention one well-researched article at a time.
- 01Editor-in-Chief
Greg Barlow
Greg Barlow is Editor-in-Chief of The Air Gazette. He spent 20 years as a journalist and media executive across magazines, encyclopedias, and reference publications. One of the most avid travelers in his field — professionally and personally — his favorite places include Mexico City, Indonesia, Thailand, and Spain. He is also an avid scuba diver.
- 02Senior Editor
Dilisha Panta
Dilisha Panta is Senior Editor at The Air Gazette. A native of Kathmandu, Nepal, she relocated to San Francisco to lead The Air Gazette into a modern publication, with a focus on the structural mechanics behind aviation news.
Where we put our work
Every Air Gazette article carries a named author and a published date. Sources are linked inline. We disclose our methodology on the Methodology page. Errors are corrected publicly on our Corrections page.
Reach the newsroom
- For story tips: tips@airgazette.com
- For press inquiries: press@airgazette.com
- For corrections: corrections@airgazette.com