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United Airlines will renovate and expand its Polaris Lounge at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport (ORD), adding more space to the first premium lounge it opened in its now-extensive network.

In 1941, Oklahoma City Municipal Airport (OKC) was renamed to honor Oklahoma native and Cherokee Indian Will Rogers. Rogers was a legendary cowboy, actor, writer and humorist who died in Alaska in 1935 during an airplane crash with noted aviator Wiley Post.

What do a hobbit and the leading edge of the wing on a Boeing 737 have in common? Not much.

Delta Air Lines on Friday said that Mike Spanos, its chief operating officer, will depart the airline for a new job at the end of August.

There are myriad reasons your flight might be delayed or canceled, from crew members calling out sick to animals wandering onto the runway. But the most common reason is weather.

Boeing said it had paused test flights of the 777-9, a large plane whose development had already been delayed by years, after discovering problems with a key part.

Each credit card issuer has its own set of restrictions regarding application approvals and sign-up bonus eligibility.

Brazilian investigators on Saturday began analyzing the black boxes from a São Paulo-bound flight to try to understand why the passenger plane fell from 17,000 feet on Friday, in a crash that killed all 62 on board.

The white sand beaches and turquoise waters of the Dominican Republic are just under a 4-hour flight away from New York City. In good news for those looking to book a quick getaway, flights between the US and the Caribbean nation could soon get cheaper—all thanks to a federal aviation policy that few travelers know exists.

In the latest salvo of a brewing public relations war, Microsoft joined CrowdStrike in pushing back against recent criticism from Delta Air Lines, claiming that the carrier rejected technical assistance in the aftermath of an outage that eventually led it to cancel more than 5,000 flights.

CrowdStrike is striking back.

Next June, a Boeing 757 will take off from New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), donning the unmistakable logo of Pan American World Airways — "blue meatball" and all.

Little is released to the public about how, why and where federal air marshals operate. As they transit through airports and board flights, they resemble passengers just like us — napping occasionally, watching rom-coms and eating bland airplane food. But air marshals are working undercover, with concealed guns and the power to make arrests. Because of their top-secret security clearance, the number of flights they work, the looming threats behind assignments, the alarming behaviors they are monitoring and even the size of the Federal Air Marshal Service are shrouded in mystery.

Boeing will appoint Robert "Kelly" Ortberg as its new CEO, the company said on Wednesday. The announcement comes months after current CEO Dave Calhoun announced plans to step down by year's end amid a shake-up at the company stemming from its ongoing manufacturing crisis. Ortberg begins Aug. 8.

A U.S. Department of Transportation regulation requiring airlines to more transparently disclose add-on fees appears to be in peril.

They are scenes straight out of a travel nightmare: Airline passengers, including unaccompanied minors, stranded for days in strange cities amid a cascading wave of flight cancellations—with little hope of catching a plane home in a hurry.

Whether it’s something you “luv” or hate, the absence of assigned seats on Southwest Airlines has become a decades-long fixture. However, the more than 50-year-old legacy of open seating for the Dallas-based carrier will soon end.

Delta Air Lines says its operations are getting back on track, signaling the likely end of a multi-day meltdown that's seen the carrier cancel more than 5,000 flights since an IT outage on Friday.

The Biden administration is opening up an investigation into Delta Air Lines as the carrier's operational meltdown stretched to a fifth day of mass cancellations in the wake of an IT outage affecting industries worldwide on Friday.

If you were flying — or planned to fly — last week, your travel plans might have been snarled by an I.T. outage that kneecapped myriad industries and critical services worldwide. On Friday, July 19, alone, nearly 14 percent of the scheduled flights in the United States were canceled and 56 percent were delayed, according to Cirium, an aviation data company. In the days following, Delta Air Lines and other carriers continued to cancel and delay flights as they struggled with crews and planes out of position and the rebooking of thousands of passengers.

Qatar Airways announced its much-anticipated new business-class seats Monday, revealing the next iteration of its nearly decade-old but still industry-leading Qsuite product, and TPG was there to get a very first look.