Things are finally looking up for famous people and people who aren’t famous but are at least rich enough to act like they are: Los Angeles International Airport (or “LAX,” short for lacrosse) has been approved to build a special terminal specifically for the most beautiful and wealthy among us.
Air travel is the fucking worst, everyone agrees, but it is sometimes a necessity. And, when it is, most people just book the cheapest economy flight available to them, regardless of airline, and suck up the indignity of layovers, limited legroom, and cramped baggage space. Now, Delta has introduced an additional…
Perhaps you traveled by air this holiday season, and perhaps you wouldn't use the word "exemplary" to describe your customer service. Perhaps the airline representative took a tone with you over the phone, and perhaps you said some things you didn't mean in return. Congrats! You're in good company.
Huge delays are expected after a computer problem at an air-traffic control center in southern England shutdown airports throughout the UK. London's Heathrow airport, the busiest in Europe, is closed until at least 2 p.m. EST. Gatwick, Luton, and Stansted airports are also shutdown.
On Sunday, Thanksgiving travelers flying out of Chicago's Midway International took to social media to document the airport's Kafkaesque security lanes, which reportedly stretched over a mile long this morning.
The expected Thanksgiving snowstorm isn't here yet, but the collapse of everyone's holiday travel plans is already underway, with Delta reporting "57 cancels planned for New York area tomorrow morning." See you in the Lincoln Tunnel!
Early this morning, a small cargo plane crashed into a Chicago house shortly after taking off from Midway Airport. According to the the city's fire department chief, the impact missed the sleeping elderly couple living there by just eight inches.
After a summer full of flight delays and disturbances due to pugnacious passengers, it's almost a relief that today's big air travel story involves a box of live crabs instead.
Have pity on those who are traveling today: a fire set by an FAA contractor at an air traffic control center in the Chicago suburbs has stopped all traffic at O'Hare and Midway Airports, canceling at least 850 flights.
Two passengers who had allegedly consumed a "significant quantity" of alcohol caused a Sunwing flight from Toronto to Cuba to return to the airport under a military escort after they smoked in the bathroom, tripped a fire alarm, got into a fight, and made a "threat against the aircraft."
A United Airlines flight from Newark to Denver had to land in Chicago Sunday because two passengers were acting like entitled dicks and air travel is fucking awful. At the center of the fight: A device called the Knee Defender, which prevents the seat directly in front of you from reclining.
A Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago to Sacramento made an emergency landing Monday morning after a passenger tried to jump out through a rear emergency exit door.
Since Thursday, Chris Brown has been on a never-ending cross-country tour of American jail cells, racking up miles on the notorious, prisoner-preferred "Con Air" flight.
Friday afternoon, at about 1:40 pm EST, a passenger jet flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing disappeared from radar screens and lost radio contact with air traffic control. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which was scheduled to land four hours later, was carrying 227 passengers, including two infants, and 12 crew members.
Sorry, that's "two-time Academy Award nominee Jonah Hill tells the most tragic airplane romance story of all time."
An infant was saved from potentially life-threatening injury when a supernaturally alert airport security guard made an incredible last-second dive to save him from a nasty fall.
A 747 LCF Dreamlifter — the largest plane manufactured by Boeing today — mistakenly touched down at Wichita's Jabara Airport late last night while en route from New York's JFK to McConnell Air Force Base.
A US Airways Express flight from Philadelphia to Long Island was canceled yesterday evening after passengers staged a protest against the crew's ejection of a blind man over a dispute concerning his guide dog.
