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.

There were reports of smoke in the cockpit before the flight made a hard landing in Las Vegas, officials said.

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.

Prosecutors said the passenger was affected by his use of methamphetamine and wasn’t trying to cause a crash.

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

Thousands of passengers are trying to make up for lost time amid several Delta flight disruptions from the global I.T. outage. Delta is slowly getting back to normalcy, saying the worst of the delays are “behind us.” News4’s Joseph Olmo talks to a mother who decided to drive to North Dakota rather than waiting out for another flight. 

Delta disruptions still continue days after the Microsoft tech outage, leaving some passengers stranded at DCA. One woman has been in the airport for two days, causing her to delay celebrating her birthday and her sister’s 10th anniversary of being cancer-free. News4’s Joseph Olmo reports. 

One couple at Dulles said it’ll take them four days to get to Tanzania amid the tech outages. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

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