Air travel

The National Transportation Safety Board is about to hold a two-day hearing into the blowout of a panel from the side of a Boeing 737 Max airliner.

A pilot was arrested at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) before he was scheduled to fly the plane to Dallas-Fort Worth International.

Financial compensation for flight delay and cancelation varies by airline.

In May, the U.S. Department of Transportation enacted new rules broadening the circumstances in which airline customers are eligible for refunds.  And this week Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg sent letters to the CEOs of the largest airlines, reminding them that they have until the fall to comply. Two new sets of Department of Transportation rules are now in effect....

As climate change drives up temperatures, the industry is adding runway space for planes, limiting pets in cargo and “taking steps” to prevent hot soda from exploding.

Southwest is under pressure to drum up revenue from an oversupplied U.S. market and an activist investor.

The Justice Department submitted an agreement with Boeing on Wednesday in which the aerospace giant will plead guilty to a fraud charge for misleading U.S. regulators who approved the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed, killing 346 people.

What should you do if you’re scheduled to travel on Delta Airlines in the coming days?  The Department of Transportation announced today it is investigating how Delta Airlines is treating passengers affected by canceled and delayed flights as the airline struggles to recover from last week’s global Crowdstrike IT outage. The Atlanta-based airline is on its fifth day of...

U.S. airline regulators have opened an investigation into Delta Air Lines, which is still struggling to restore operations on Tuesday, more than four full days after a faulty software update caused technological havoc worldwide and disrupted global air travel.

Federal officials are investigating an incident in which a Southwest Airlines jet flew as low as 150 feet over water while it was still about five miles from its intended landing spot in Tampa, Florida.

Airlines, including Delta Air Lines, continued to struggle to restore operations two days after a faulty software update caused technological havoc worldwide and resulted in several carriers grounding flights.

Fort Worth-based American Airlines has reached a tentative labor deal with the union representing its 28,000 flight attendants.

Thousands of flights have been canceled after a worldwide internet outage hit many leading airlines, forcing passengers to scramble to save their vacations and other trips.

An Air India flight from Delhi to San Francisco was diverted to an airport in Russia after the pilots “detected a potential issue in the cargo hold area,” the airline said Thursday.

A United Airlines flight landed in Denver Monday after losing a wheel on takeoff from Los Angeles International Airport.

Agents for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration on Sunday screened 3 million airline passengers in a single day for the first time ever. The record topped the June 23 mark of more than 2.99 million screened passengers.

Air travel is getting more miserable. That’s the verdict from travelers, based on the number of them who file complaints with the U.S. government last year.

Officials say a flight to Manchester, New Hampshire was diverted to Buffalo, New York, after a man allegedly exposed himself and urinated in the aisle of the airplane.

Delta said it was serving pasta only on about 75 international flights on Wednesday after a ‘spoiled meal’ forced an Amsterdam-bound flight to divert.

About 30 passengers were injured on their way from Madrid, Spain to Montevideo, Uruguay.