With the evolving nature of the outbreak, some airlines have increased their flight cancellations, and have even begun waiving fees for those who previously booked flights to high-risk countries.

Jetblue Airways and Alaska Airlines announced they were waiving change and cancellation fees for all newly-booked flights as people grow more worried over the new respiratory virus sweeping the globe.

On a JetBlue flight Thursday from Florida to Worcester, Massachusetts, Michele and Steven Burt’s French Bulldog, Darcy, had trouble breathing.

A Queens woman who works for JetBlue says she was sexually assaulted by a flight attendant after a night out with a few other coworkers — and alleges the airline failed to take action even after its investigation substantiated her allegations, according to a lawsuit filed last week. The employee, only identified in the lawsuit as Jane Doe, is suing…

JetBlue is tackling the high environmental impact of flying by aiming to become carbon neutral on all domestic flights by July 2020, according to a press release Monday. The New York-based airline said this will entail offsetting between 15 billion and 17 billion additional pounds of emissions per year, which the company noted is “the annual equivalent of removing more...

A federal grand jury has charged 26 people — including airline employees, airport staff and restaurant workers — with running a $4 million drug smuggling and money laundering operation from Puerto Rico’s international airport. The alleged leader of the scheme has not yet been arrested and is believed to be holed up in the Dominican Republic with his pet tiger....

Two people briefed on the matter say the Trump administration is banning U.S. flights to all Cuban cities but Havana in the latest move to roll back Obama-era easing of relations.

When Ryan Dubray was given a $50 bill from his grandparents as he headed off to college in case of emergency, he never dreamed it would be spent at a toll — more than two decades later

United Airlines is setting an earlier cutoff time for when pilots must stop drinking alcohol before flights. The airline is telling pilots they must abstain from alcohol for 12 hours before flights, up from the previous eight hours.

Computer problems affected several airlines Monday at Los Angeles International Airport. Hawaiian, JetBlue, Alaska and American airlines all reported technical difficulties Monday morning, according to a Los Angeles World Airports spokeswoman.

A person who passed through Long Beach Airport twice in recent weeks had infectious measles at the time, and city health officials warned Wednesday that anyone in the airport at the time may have been exposed.

JetBlue has taken down a poster of a convicted murderer that it had included as part of a Black History Month tribute at New York’s Kennedy Airport. The airline said Saturday it removed the poster paying tribute to Assata Shakur last month after being alerted via Twitter that Shakur is “a convicted cop killer.” “The intention was always to unite...

A baby was born aboard a JetBlue airplane named “Born to be Blue” in a flight to Fort Lauderdale.

Electric utility Con Edison is working to figure out what caused a high-voltage equipment failure that unleashed an otherworldly flash of bright blue light in the night sky over New York City Thursday, startling residents, plunging LaGuardia Airport into total darkness and inciting chatter about alien invasions.

Gender reveal party gone wrong? Alien invasion? Optimus Prime vs. Megatron?

Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora took the 2018 World Series trophy to Puerto Rico on Saturday to celebrate the team’s championship in his hometown of Caguas, an area hit hard by Hurricane Maria. “It was cool…I knew it was gonna be a special day. It’s a different vibe, not to take away from where we play and the celebration...

American Airlines is telling employees to think twice before rebooking stranded customers on rival airlines, and regular economy-class passengers are the most likely to suffer when there are long delays or canceled flights. A new policy at American directs airport agents not to rebook economy passengers on competing airlines — with no stated limit on how long they must wait...

It’s official: It will cost you more to check a bag on any of the three biggest U.S. airlines. American Airlines said Thursday that it is raising fees for checking bags by $5 apiece each way, matching Delta and United. The first bag is now $30 and the second is $40. Those are each way, so checking two bags on...