93% of Global Airlines Cannot Stop Email Fraud -- and Summer Travel Season Just Started

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Peak summer travel season is underway. Hundreds of millions of travelers will book flights, check confirmations, respond to upgrade offers, and receive baggage notifications over the coming weeks. Every one of those emails is a surface that attackers can exploit – and the airline industry has done less to protect that surface than almost any other major sector.

Proofpoint’s analysis of the 296 member airlines of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) found that 61 percent have no published DMARC record at all – the foundational DNS record that lets receiving mail servers verify whether an email claiming to come from an airline’s domain was actually sent by that airline.

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93% of Global Airlines Cannot Stop Email Fraud -- and Summer Travel Season Just Started