Aviation tips

Air India welcomed its new Airbus A350 in December — a first for the nation's flag carrier — and it's an incredible improvement from the airline's notoriously mediocre product.

The Wall Street Journal published its annual list of the best and worst carriers in the US for 2023, and Delta Air Lines once again took the crown for the top airline.

More than three generations ago, back when the Los Angeles Dodgers were still the Brooklyn Dodgers, they used to have trouble getting past the New York Yankees in the World Series after running roughshod in the National League.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is now recommending that airlines perform inspections on mid-exit door plugs installed on another Boeing plane model.

Hundreds of passengers ended up hundreds of miles away from their destinations as planes were caught in a storm across the UK and Ireland on Sunday.

A small homebuilt aircraft crashed off the coast of California on Sunday, The Associated Press reported.

The Boeing 737 Max 9 saga has impacted more than 1,500 Alaska Airlines flights as the carrier said there will be cancelations through Friday.

In a bid to check overtourism, Airbnb will be working to enhance host capacity in lesser-explored destinations within Uttarakhand. The memorandum of understanding signed between Airbnb and the Uttarakhand Tourism Development Board, looks to introduce lesser-explored destinations to tourists.

Boeing is introducing more quality assurance measures in its production process for 737 aircraft following a nightmare Alaska Airlines flight on one of the planes last week.

It's not unusual for passengers to fall asleep on flights, but what happened next for Cuong Tran was decidedly out of the ordinary.

A plane carrying a national soccer team had to make an emergency landing Wednesday due to an oxygen shortage on board, The Gambia Football Federation said in a statement.

Change is in the air at Finnair. The Helsinki-based flag carrier has confirmed that Turkka Kuusisto will be the airline’s new chief executive. The appointment follows the resignation of incumbent Topi Manner in August last year. 

A record 6,737 firearms were intercepted at airport checkpoints last year, the Transportation Security Administration announced Wednesday.

An Air Canada passenger opened the door of an aircraft and fell about 20 feet to the ground, Global News reported.

The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that Boeing will revise its instructions to carriers for inspections of its 737 Max 9 aircraft after United Airlines and Alaska Airlines reported finding some loose hardware. 

Aviation data provider Cirium has unveiled the world's top airlines for on-time performance, naming Colombia's Avianca Airlines as the most punctual global carrier of 2023.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Diane Higgins, one of the 155 people who survived the "Miracle on the Hudson" crash alongside her mother, Lucille Palmer, in 2009. It has been edited for length and clarity.

An Air Canada flight was diverted on Wednesday after a 16-year-old boy assaulted a family member, the police said.

Airline safety is at the forefront of many people's minds after a fiery Japan Airlines collision with a Japanese Coast Guard plane in Tokyo.

A Qatar Airways flight was delayed Tuesday after the pilot and crew members got stuck inside an airport elevator for more than three hours.

Two retirees were flown to the wrong island by UK-based airline Jet2 after being placed on a different flight even after their tickets were checked multiple times, several local news sites reported.