This lucky traveler was upgraded to a First Class suite onboard an Emirates Airbus A380 from Singapore. Check out the suite, food and drinks, first class service, and shower in today’s travel vlog. This was his first time flying first class with Emirates. He talks about how he was upgraded from business class to first, […]
WASHINGTON—Federal officials are investigating an incident in which a Southwest Airlines jet flew as low as 150 feet (45 meters) over water while it was still about 5 miles (8 kilometers) from its intended landing spot at the airport in Tampa, Florida. The pilots skipped over the Tampa airport and landed instead at Fort Lauderdale, […]
NEW DELHI—Air India said on Friday a plane with food and other essentials was on its way to pick up passengers stranded in Russia after the previous day’s San Francisco-bound flight made an emergency landing there. An Air India airplane flying from Delhi to the West Coast city made an emergency landing in Russia after […]
BUFFALO, N.Y.—A flight to Manchester, New Hampshire, was diverted Wednesday after a man allegedly exposed himself and urinated in the aisle of the airplane, officials said. The 25-year-old Oregon man was arrested and charged with indecent exposure after the flight landed at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport. He was released after making an initial appearance […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—Malaysia Airlines said one of its flight en route to Bangkok had to make a U-turn back to Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Monday after experiencing a “pressurization issue.” It said the pilots initiated an emergency descent although cabin altitude was not exceeded and passenger oxygen masks were not deployed. The aircraft remained […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—The Singapore Airlines jetliner that hit severe turbulence last week went through huge swings in gravitational force in less than five seconds, likely causing the injuries to people who weren’t buckled into their seats, according to a preliminary report Wednesday by Singapore’s Transport Ministry. The plane dropped 178 feet (54 meters) in less […]
A Delta Air Lines flight from Salt Lake City bound for Amsterdam had to cut its journey short on March 24 after the plane experienced technical trouble mid-air. The plane got as far as the Montana-North Dakota boundary after pilots became aware of a missing panel behind one of the two engines. The panel reportedly […]
Indonesia’s Transport Ministry said on Saturday that it would conduct a review of night flight operations after two Batik Air pilots fell asleep mid-flight for nearly half an hour, causing the airplane to veer off course. The incident happened on Jan. 25 when both pilots of flight BTK6723—operated by Batik Air—dozed off while the plane […]
LAS VEGAS—A man who witnesses say stabbed another passenger on an airline flight and told authorities he intended to kill the victim has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. The man made an improvised weapon by wrapping rubber bands around several pens. A grand jury handed down a one-count indictment against Julio Alvarez […]
BOSTON—An American Airlines flight attendant arrested on suspicion of trying to secretly record a 14-year-old female passenger using an airplane bathroom last September is being held in custody pending trial. Police have also alleged that Estes Carter Thompson III, 37, of Charlotte, North Carolina, had recordings of four other minor female passengers using lavatories on […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. flight cancellations fell to the lowest rate in at least a decade in 2023, the U.S. Transportation Department said Wednesday, after a string of bumpy years for air travel. There were 16.3 million U.S. flights in 2023 and a cancellation rate of below 1.2 percent, the lowest since at least 2013, USDOT said, adding […]
The grandmother of an unaccompanied 6-year-old boy who was put on the wrong Spirit Airlines flight by staff wants answers after the carrier apologized for the error. Maria Ramos said it was one of the scariest experiences of her life when her grandson, Casper, did not disembark from his flight from Philadelphia. “They told me, […]
The U.S. Air Force’s B-21 “Raider” bomber shaped like a flying wing took its first flight on Friday, the next step in rolling out a new fleet of long-range nuclear-capable stealth bombers built by Northrop Grumman. The B-21 left Northrop’s facility at the Air Force’s Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, at sunrise on Friday offering […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—A JetBlue flight from Ecuador to Fort Lauderdale hit extreme turbulence while landing in Florida on Monday, injuring seven passengers and a crew member, the airline said in a statement. JetBlue flight 1256 was headed from Guayaquil, Ecuador, to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport for a landing shortly after 5 a.m. when it “experienced […]
CHICAGO—A United Airlines jet headed to Rome turned around less than an hour into the flight and descended rapidly after what the airline termed an indication of possible loss of cabin pressure. The plane returned to Newark, New Jersey, and landed safely early Thursday morning, the airline said. United said there was no loss of […]
United Airlines said Tuesday that a software update triggered a glitch that forced it to halt departures nationwide, briefly crippling one of the nation’s biggest carriers on a busy travel day. Federal officials said United crews had been unable to contact airline dispatchers through normal means. “A software update caused a widespread slowdown in United’s […]
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M.—Virgin Galactic rocketed to the edge of space with its first tourists Thursday, including a former British Olympian who bought his ticket 18 years ago and a mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean. The space plane glided back to a runway landing at Spaceport America in the New Mexico desert, after a brief […]
NEW ORLEANS—A man aboard a Delta Air Lines jet that had just landed in New Orleans cut himself and attacked a flight attendant before being subdued by fellow passengers, a sheriff’s spokesman said. Passengers held down the 39-year-old man until deputies could board the plane and arrest him, The Times-Picayune/ The New Orleans Advocate reported, […]
Airline passengers who have endured tens of thousands of weather-related flight delays this week got a welcome respite from the headaches Saturday, despite concerns about possible disruptions caused by new wireless 5G systems rolling out near major airports. The number of flight delays and cancellations declined from the spikes recorded earlier in the week, according […]
As the July 4 holiday approaches, would-be travelers may need to avert their gaze from the clouds to the roads or else postpone plans altogether. Frustration with airlines and inclement weather has been sky-high since last weekend, as thousands of flights have been delayed and postponed, according to the aircraft-tracking service FlightAware. Storms in the […]
