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• No injuries reported from fire on Delta plane at Orlando airport Play Video

  April 21, 2025 2:15 PM

  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Delta Air Lines airplane caught fire on Monday before it was supposed to take off at a central Florida airport, forcing the evacuation of passengers, airport officials said. There were no reports of any injuries during the fire on the plane at Orlando International... more »

• Southwest Airlines breaks with another tradition: checked bags will cost you now Play Video

  March 11, 2025 10:41 AM

  Southwest Airlines said Tuesday that it will begin charging customers a fee to check bags, abandoning a decades-long practice that executives had described last fall as key to differentiating the budget carrier from its rivals. Southwest, which built years of advertising campaigns around its policy of letting passengers check... more »

• Spirit Airlines files for bankruptcy as financial losses pile up and debt payments loom Play Video

  November 18, 2024 6:24 AM

  MIRIMAR, Fla. (AP) — Spirit Airlines said Monday that it has filed for bankruptcy protection and will attempt to reboot as it struggles to recover from the pandemic-caused swoon in travel and a failed attempt to sell the airline to JetBlue. Spirit, the biggest U.S. budget airline, has lost... more »

• US fines American Airlines $50 million over mishandling of disabled passengers and wheelchairs

  October 23, 2024 7:16 AM

  DALLAS (AP) — The U.S. government fined American Airlines $50 million for failing to provide wheelchair assistance to passengers with disabilities and damaging thousands of wheelchairs over a five-year period, The Transportation Department said Wednesday that “in some cases,” wheelchair users were injured, but it did not give a... more »

• CrowdStrike blames bug for letting bad data slip through, leading to global tech outage

  July 24, 2024 3:50 PM

  CrowdStrike is blaming a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers, setting off last week’s global tech outage that grounded flights, took TV broadcasts off air and disrupted banks, hospitals and retailers. CrowdStrike also outlined measures it... more »

• Delta Airlines donates over 200,000 pounds of food to U.S. relief agencies

  April 7, 2020 10:48 AM

  With so few people flying due to the global pandemic, Delta Airlines has a lot of food items that could easily just lay around, uneaten. But instead of allowing it to go to waste the company is providing more than 200,000 pounds of food to hospitals, community food banks... more »

• JetBlue to reduce its capacity by at least 40% throughout April and May

  March 18, 2020 9:31 AM

  JetBlue has announced that it is reducing capacity by at least 40% in April and May and that the airline expects "substantial" cuts in June and July. The company is also grounding some of its planes, offering voluntary time-off programs, and expecting some of its top executives to accept... more »

• United responds to critics after barring 2 teens for leggings

  March 27, 2017 5:02 PM

  DENVER - United Airlines responded to criticism it received on Sunday after it barred two teenage girls from boarding a flight because they were wearing leggings. The incident sent a number of social media users into an uproar, with some calling the policy sexist and discriminatory against women. ... more »

• Passenger gets entire plane to himself on flight

  June 24, 2016 6:58 PM

  NEW ORLEANS – A lucky Delta Airlines passenger got on a flight and had the entire plane to himself. Steven Schneider was flying home to Atlanta on Tuesday, June 21 when he arrived to an empty gate area for his flight at the Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans.... more »

• DOT launches process to award new flights between U.S. and Cuba

  February 16, 2016 11:19 AM

  HAVANA - The U.S. Department of Transportation signed an arrangement Tuesday morning that provides for the re-establishment of scheduled air services between the United States and Cuba. Following the signing, the DOT invited U.S. air carriers to apply for an allocation to provide scheduled passenger and cargo flights between... more »