Airlines

A Spirit Airlines flight Florida to Haiti was diverted to the Dominican Republic on Monday after the aircraft was struck by gunfire when it attempted to land in Port-au-Prince.

German airline Lufthansa was fined $4 million by the U.S. Department of Transportation over allegations it discriminated against Jewish passengers.

In the long list of issues with in-flight entertainment, passengers on a recent flight from Sydney to Tokyo may have been exposed to a new one: A sexually explicit movie playing on every screen.

JetBlue joins Delta, American and United in opening airport lounges to cater to high-spending travelers.

A spokesperson for the airline said that Flight 1203 from Salt Lake City to Portland, Oregon, was unable to pressurize above 10,000 feet.

Pilots of an Alaska Airlines jet aborted a takeoff in Nashville to avoid a possible collision with a Southwest Airlines plane.

Hiring by U.S. airlines is cooling after the industry added tens of thousands of jobs to build up for the post-Covid travel surge.

Cathay Pacific has canceled nearly 70 flights since Monday after an engine issue forced a flight heading to Zurich to turn back around to Hong Kong, according to the BBC.

Cash-strapped, low-cost and deep discounter airlines are putting off spending billions of dollars on new aircraft to save money as they try to return to steady profitability and face the impact of engine repairs.

Delta did not specify the nature of the incident, but local reports said it may have involved an airplane tire explosion.

A plane with 62 people aboard has crashed into a residential area of a city in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state, but it’s not immediately clear how many people were injured or killed.

Delta Air Lines on Thursday said last month’s CrowdStrike outage and subsequent mass flight cancellations cost it some $550 million

Under the proposal, released Thursday, U.S. and foreign carriers would be required to seat children ages 13 or younger next to a parent or accompanying adult for free.

Delta has hired prominent attorney David Boies to pursue potential damages from CrowdStrike and Microsoft after a mass outage earlier this month.

The airline will begin assigning seats to passengers, ending its 50-year trademark of allowing passengers to select their seats.

Airlines are continuing to work to catch up on operations following a Microsoft outage that also affected banks, hospitals and businesses around the world. Robert Kovacik reports for the NBC4 News at 7 p.m. on July 19, 2024.

Alaska’s flight attendants’ tentative agreement ends a drought of new contracts for cabin crews that have been seeking pay raises for years.

Federal officials are investigating a Southwest Airlines jet that triggered a low-altitude alert as it prepared to land in Oklahoma City but was still nine miles from the airport.

Qatar Airways is the “Airline of the Year,” according to AirlineRatings.com. The Doha-based airline’s back on top after falling behind Air New Zealand in 2023.

Bette Nash, recognized as the world’s longest-serving flight attendant, has died. She was 88.