air travel

The looming REAL ID deadline already delayed twice is getting another major pushback, giving Americans an additional 24 months to become compliant, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday. A new date for the requirement for air travelers to have a REAL ID-compliant form of identification will be set for May 7, 2025, officials said. Originally slated for enforcement back…

passenger disturbance on a Southwest Airlines flight prompted its diversion to Little Rock, Arkansas, on Saturday on one of the year’s busiest travel weekends.

It’s not just inflation. There has been no letup in travel demand as the pandemic ebbs.

The federal government has turned down a request by a regional airline to hire pilots with half the flying experience generally required. The Federal Aviation Administration says it’s in the public interest to uphold the current standards. Republic Airways petitioned to hire first officers — or co-pilots — with 750 hours of flying time if they completed Republic’s training program....

For the first time since COVID-19 brought air travel to a standstill, the number of people streaming through U.S. airport-security checkpoints over a holiday weekend exceeded pre-pandemic levels. The summer travel season ended on a busy note as more than 8.7 million people passed through security in the last four days, topping the Labor Day weekend of 2019. The Transportation...

A video of a Southwest Airlines pilot saying he will “pull back” the airplane and return to the gate if passengers do not stop sending nude photos over AirDrop has gone viral.

Amid months of mass flight cancellations and delays, the Department of Transportation has launched a customer service dashboard to help vacationers ahead of the travel-heavy Labor Day weekend.

New federal data show the number passenger complaints to U.S. carriers more than doubled in the first half of 2022, between January and June, compared with the first half of 2021 — with nearly six-times more complaints about flight problems like cancellations, delays or missed connections. The new crush of complaints came as airlines dramatically increased capacity to meet surging…

An airline official said two Air France pilots were suspended after physically fighting in the cockpit on a Geneva-Paris flight in June.

Air travel in the summer of 2022 has been a frustrating one for many passengers at San Diego International Airport. What can travelers expect for the future?

After a punishing summer for air travelers who have seen delayed and canceled flights, the Department of Transportation is warning airlines that they need to come up with their own improvements for customer service or the agency will proceed with a plan to order a rule change. 

American Airlines on Tuesday said that it has ordered 20 supersonic planes, aircrafts that can carry passengers at twice the speed of today’s fastest commercial aircraft. American has become the third major airline to announce a supersonic order from Boom Aviation in Denver, following in the footsteps of Japan Airlines in 2017 and United Airlines in 2021. “We want to do supersonic as quickly...

Air travelers are finally getting a break on fares.

Thunderstorms on the East Coast are causing travel headaches for tens of thousands of airline passengers.

The DOT logged a surge in complaints about airline refunds since the Covid-19 pandemic began.

Pilots for major airlines described opportunism and a desire to cut costs throughout the industry as worsening the situation travelers are facing today.

The Biden administration is nudging airlines to make it easier for families to sit together on planes at no extra charge.

Delta pilots continued to strike at seven major airports Friday after saying they’ve been over-worked and under-compensated throughout the pandemic.

Airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration are pointing the finger at each other over a rising rate of flight cancellations and delays.

The day after Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg met with airline leaders to quiz them about widespread flight disruptions, his own flight was canceled and he wound up driving from Washington to New York. “That is happening to a lot of people, and that is exactly why we are paying close attention here to what can be done and how to…