LAS VEGAS — Quality WiFi in the air, free to all, was “the last frontier of connectivity,” Delta CEO Ed Bastian told a standing-room crowd during his CES keynote here on Thursday. And, he said, it came with quite a price tag:…
Customers who were caught up in Southwest Airlines’ holiday meltdown will receive 25,000 Rapid Rewards points as compensation. The points, said CEO Bob Jordan in emails received by customers, equate to a base fare redemption value of more than $300. Southwest is…
A groundworker who died in a Dec. 31 industrial accident at Montgomery Regional Airport in Alabama “was ingested into the engine” of an American Eagle Embraer E170 regional jet, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. The NTSB said that its preliminary…
Delta was the timeliest large airline in North America in 2022, according to an annual ranking by the flight data provider Cirium. Delta’s 84.1% on-time ranking bested runner-up Alaska Airlines, which arrived on time at an 81.4% clip. Cirium uses the DOT…
The CDC will require a negative Covid-19 test or documentation of recovery for passengers boarding flights to the U.S. from China, including Hong Kong and Macau. The CDC made its announcement on Wednesday, following China’s announcement that the government will resume issuing…
Southwest Airlines canceled 63% of its flights on Tuesday amid plans to cancel similar portions of its schedule for the next several days. Meanwhile, the Transportation Department said Monday that it would look into Southwest’s operational failures. “USDOT is concerned by Southwest’s…
The $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill passed by the Senate on Thursday includes a provision that would allow for the Boeing 737 Max-7 and Max-10 planes to be certified without further upgrades to the cockpit alerting system. Language on the change, which…
The extreme winter weather that is freezing much of the central U.S. is wreaking havoc on air travel. By 1 p.m. on Thursday, airlines had canceled nearly 1,900 flights within, into and from the U.S., according to FlightAware. Travel problems are most…
The U.S. Department of Transportation has extended to Jan. 23 the period for comments on its proposed rule on enhancing the transparency of airline ancillary service fees. The previous deadline had been Dec. 19. The agency announced the proposed rule in September…
HONOLULU (AP) — Tiffany Reyes had just gotten back to her seat from the bathroom and was about to buckle her safety belt when Hawaiian Airlines Flight 35 dipped. In an instant, Reyes found herself on the aisle floor, staring up at…