Photo: Kevin Carter (Getty Images) When travelers say they hope to reach their destination in one piece, they sometimes mean it literally. An American Airlines flight departing Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu on Wednesday performed “an expedited climb” to avoid colliding with a mountain. During the incident, the Airbus A321neo’s proximity warning didn’t … Read more
Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc (Getty Images) The days of hoping for bonus miles and airline credit when your flight gets canceled are over. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s new rules on airline refunds came into full effect on Tuesday. Every carrier is now required to automatically refund customers for canceled and significantly delayed flights. … Read more
First-class airline passengers expect to be waited on hand and foot by flight attendants. They especially don’t want to spot a bed bug climbing up their leg. One unfortunate flyer found a bed bug on themselves during an American Airlines flight earlier this week from LaGuardia Airport in New York to Detroit Metro Airport. The … Read more
Unruly passengers make the frustrating experience of flying even more stressful, but these customers don’t suddenly become rowdy when they step on the plane. A 31-year-old woman became irate at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago after reportedly missing a flight on July 30. Local police noted that the woman fled the scene and is still … Read more
Modern air travel is often terrible. Cramped seats, tiny luggage compartments — the list goes on. Yet, most of us in those cramped seats actually have it far better than the folks strolling the aisles, who — at least on American Airlines flights — earn barely over $27,000 per year while forced to live in … Read more
Photo: Facebook Marketplace Diesel-powered motorcycles never really took off, for about one thousand reasons that make them worse than gas or electric bikes, but when have you ever cared about a vehicle being bad? You’re on Jalopnik after all, where we adore the absolute worst pieces of garbage ever set loose on the American roads. … Read more
Screenshot: KSTP TV If you’ve been paying attention to the airline industry lately, you’re probably aware there’s been a string of incidents that Boeing probably wishes hadn’t made the news. Considering how much negative attention Boeing has attracted recently, including news that its CEO plans to resign, it would be understandable if you assumed any … Read more
For more than 25 years, it was possible to fly from New York to London in under three hours, all while being pampered with first class luxury on the British Airways Concorde. Then, in November 2003, all that stopped. To try to recapture some of the luxury that came with flying Concorde, BA put on … Read more
While the airline industry in the U.S. is largely unionized, Delta is different. Its pilots and dispatchers are unionized, but Delta’s technicians and flight attendants, as well as its ramp, cargo and tower employees, are not. With renewed efforts to change that following years of growing support for unions, it’s starting to look like we … Read more
There’s A Relic Runway From America’s Failed Supersonic Future Hiding In The Everglades Supersonic airliners never became as common as airlines and government officials hoped.Photo: Victor Drees/Daily Express/Hulton Archive (Getty Images) Delta’s Luggage Only Flight When supersonic flight was set to transform passenger air travel in the late 1960s, Miami-Dade County had grand ambitions of … Read more
