An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-900ER aircraft on the tarmac at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) in Seattle, Washington, US, on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alaska Airlines flight attendants rejected a new labor deal that would have come with immediate raises averaging more than 24%, their union said Wednesday, setting … Read more
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-7Q8 takes off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington Virginia on August 13, 2024. Daniel Slim | Afp | Getty Images Activist investor Elliott Management will launch a proxy fight at Southwest Airlines, and intends to nominate as many as 10 directors to the company’s 15-person board, the activist … Read more
Microsoft fired back at Delta Air Lines on Tuesday after the carrier said it would seek damages from the software giant and CrowdStrike for thousands of flight cancellations in the wake of a massive IT outage. Delta struggled more than rival airlines to recover from the outage, cancelling more than 5,000 flights in the days … Read more
A Spirit commercial airliner prepares to land at San Diego International Airport in San Diego, California, U.S., January 18, 2024. Mike Blake | Reuters Free Wi-Fi? Free checked bag? Free snacks? On Spirit? The Florida-based carrier that is practically synonymous with budget air travel in the U.S. said Tuesday that it plans to offer packages … Read more
An Airbus A321 flies at the Farnborough International Airshow, in Farnborough, Britain, July 22, 2024. Toby Melville | Reuters FARNBOROUGH, England — Massive airplane orders, hundreds deep in recent years, were absent from this year’s biggest air show. The focus instead was on struggles at Boeing and Airbus to ramp up airplane production while battling … Read more
Airplanes from United and JetBlue and Delta populate the taxiway at Laguardia Airport in the Queens borough of New York City. Bruce Bennett | Getty Images U.S. airlines are reducing their capacity through the end of the year in a bid to cool an oversupplied domestic market that has led to lower fares and reduced … Read more
Southwest Airlines airplanes are serviced at their gates at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on May 18, 2024, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Gary Hershorn | Corbis News | Getty Images Southwest Airlines on Thursday forecast a potential drop in unit revenue for the third quarter as an oversupplied U.S. market has forced airlines to discount tickets … Read more
A Southwest commercial airliner takes off from Las Vegas on Feb. 8, 2024. Mike Blake | Reuters Southwest Airlines is ending open seating and will offer extra legroom seats on its airplanes as mounting pressure on the carrier to increase revenue prompts the biggest changes to its business model in its 53 years of flying. … Read more
The United Airlines terminal on July 19, 2024 as a global technology outage affected LAX airport in Los Angeles. Myung J. Chun | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Flight cancellations and delays eased on Saturday as airlines worked to recover from a global IT outage sparked chaos at airports and for other industries a … Read more
Crowds are seen building up at Suvarnabhumi Airport as a global IT disruption caused by a Microsoft outage and a Crowdstrike IT problem combine to affect users on July 19, 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand. Mailee Osten-tan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Several airlines halted flights on Friday, while others warned of delays and … Read more
