Passengers swayed to live music while sipping spiked coffee and sampling Portuguese queijadas and pineapple-infused chocolate bars. At the same time, balloon bouquets hung overhead while flight attendants posed for photos with a pair of Yorkies in Hawaiian shirts and pilot caps. It certainly wasn’t the furious and frustrated scene travelers have come to expect…
Russian fighter crews have identified the air target as a pair of US Air Force B-52N strategic bombers over the Barents Sea,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. The Federation decided to urgently scramble a pair of fighters to neutralize the potential threat. The American side has not commented on the Russian reports….
William Sikora III was supposed to fly from Philadelphia to Detroit on Friday morning. “We are stuck at this airport,” he posted in a video on X at 6 a.m., zooming in on blue airport screens showing system errors. “United, Delta, America, all this stuff is down. People are just sitting here. The apps still…
It’s been a rough month being the CEO of United Airlines. I mean, even on a good day, running a business with as many moving parts as an airline is a challenge. There are so many things out of your control like weather or sick pilots or crowded airports. Add to that the stress of…
In a major disruption, over 2,600 flights across the United States were canceled as United Airlines and American Airlines experienced a global outage. The unprecedented event left thousands of passengers stranded and created widespread confusion and delays at airports nationwide. The Outage The outage, which began early in the morning, affected the airlines’ reservation and…
Due to a lack of sales, the airline will replace first-class seats with more business-class options. American Airlines announced on October 20 that it would be discontinuing first-class seats on all international flights, replacing them with more business-class seats. The plan was shared by American’s chief commercial officer, Vasu Raja, in a conference call with…
With its industry reeling, the Fort Worth-based airline giant is quietly betting that diminished competition will keep passengers coming—even as they grumble about the carrier’s poor service, late arrivals, and the jam-packing of its flights amid the pandemic. Winding its way to the global headquarters of American Airlines, Skyview Drive passes carefully landscaped patches of…
In the last 30 minutes or so, American Airlines flight AA2131 between New York & Miami declared an emergency and diverted to Raleigh.American Airlines flight AA2131, which declared an emergency, is a routine scheduled flight between New York JFK & Miami. Also, it is understood that N316SE is the aircraft involved in the incident. As…
There’s a tentative agreement between American Airlines and its flight attendants. The contract with the workgroup follows nearly five years of negotiations over scheduling and pay and, according to the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, comes just days before talks were about to break off. Streaming 24/7: Watch NBC 5 local news and weather for…
The CEO of United Airlines says that a slew of recent incidents ranging from a piece of aluminum skin falling off a plane to another jet losing a wheel on takeoff will cause the airline to review its safety training for employees. CEO Scott Kirby said the airline was already planning an extra day of…