Frustrated air travelers, how does this sound: A check for $500 for each hour an airline keeps you on the ground inside an airplane without fresh air, working restrooms, refreshments or the chance to go back to the gate?
Thirty-seven passengers and two flight attendants on an American Airlines flight were detained in Japan for several hours over concerns about swine flu.
United Airlines on Wednesday joined Southwest Airlines and others formalizing and putting into effect a policy for how it deals with “seatmates of size.”
Hear that flapping? It’s not cute birds returning from winter vacation. It’s the sound of any extra travel dollars you may have flying out of your wallet.
Effective Wednesday, United Airlines has a new official policy that affects “seatmates of size” and those passengers seated near them.
We pray to escape the middle row. We pay extra for a cranny of bonus leg room. And we pine for an upgrade to the highest of all Promised Lands — first class.
Cruising isn’t what it used to be. Just ask Steve Roberts, who recently sailed from Costa Maya, Mexico, to Nassau, Bahamas on the Carnival Glory.
Who doesn’t enjoy being seated in the exit row? The seats assure cramped passengers extra inches of legroom and are an airplane’s most coveted feature.
A funny thing happened on my 6 a.m. flight from Seattle to Las Vegas last week.
A lawyer for American Airlines said Friday it was the suspicious behavior of five men of Iraqi descent, not discrimination, that caused the pilot of a Chicago-bound flight to return to the gate in August 2007.
US Airways Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III will appear in his first interview since successfully ditching a commercial jetliner on New York's Hudson River Monday on TODAY, NBC News announced.
One thing is for sure: You will be detained and arrested if you on a flight heading in to LAX last week. Witnesses say Johnson tried opening a rear emergency exit door and yelled, “I have a bomb” when other passengers tried to stop him.
AirTran Airways apologized Friday to nine Muslims kicked off a New Year's Day flight to Florida after other passengers reported hearing a suspicious remark about airplane security. One of the passengers said the confusion started at Reagan National Airport just outside Washington, D.C., when he talked about the safest place to sit on an airplane.
At 8 p.m. on Christmas night, a surveillance camera on a Caribbean cruise ship captured the image of a woman in a bathrobe falling over the railing. Two days later, her husband accepted condolences from a fellow passenger and announced his immediate plans — a trip to the ship’s casino.
BAA Ltd., Britain's largest airport operator, said Friday that the number of passengers going through its seven airports countrywide fell nearly 9 percent in November from a year ago, as the economic downturn eroded demand and flight cancellations surged because of the closure of Bangkok's international airport and problems at Air France.
Hoping to avoid long delays while flying over the holiday? Maybe you should see if you can get a seat on Air Force One. After all, as President Bush “joked” at a press conference at the Department of Transportation (DOT) last week, “The past eight years, I have not seen a traffic jam, waited for an airplane or had my bags lost.”
Canada's largest airline is trying to figure out which obese and disabled passengers will be eligible for additional seats at no charge after the country's Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the airlines.
With the economy in a tizzy, everyone is cutting back on just about everything, including travel. But don’t let that lull you into thinking everyone but you will be staying home this holiday season.
You can’t talk about the worst holiday travel experiences without mentioning the movie “Planes, Trains & Automobiles.”
Passengers stranded for hours aboard planes on the tarmac would still have to depend on the goodwill of airlines and airports for relief under guidelines adopted by a federal task force Wednesday.
EasyJet PLC, Europe's second largest discount airline, said Thursday it carried 18 percent more passengers this October than it did in the same month last year, helped by acquisitions of rivals in the face of an economic downturn.
Anxious passengers on a flight to Portugal successfully petitioned Germany's Air Berlin to change their plane after a technical problem prompted the pilot to scrap two attempts to take off, the airline said Monday.
Passengers on a plane were hurled from their seats and 15 people injured, two of them seriously, when their flight from Munich to Lisbon hit a patch of severe turbulence on Saturday evening.
Gothenburg police are hunting for a mystery man who is suspected of cutting the hair of unsuspecting female passengers aboard the city's buses.
A steam train is taking passengers from London to Swanage in Dorset for the first time in over 40 years. The last steam-hauled passenger train took enthusiasts on a rail tour of the Swanage Railway in 1967.
'There is theft from within' Airport baggage handlers are accused of stealing everything from cameras to cologne. » Airline response
A court in the southwestern German city of Karlsruhe has fined a tram driver €1,800 for sending pictures of his genitals to passengers in his train via Bluetooth.
Irish carrier Ryanair, Europe's largest budget airline, might start charging passengers for using the toilet while flying See more irresistible headlines
Excerpt: A pocket watch which stopped and froze at the exact time a newlywed Titanic passenger fell into the sea and drowned has gone on display for the first time.
- One of the passengers aboard flight 3407 was looking forward to becoming a mother. Jennifer Neill and her unborn child were lost in the crash. Jennifer Neill couldn't wait to be a mother. She was showing fellow workers her sonogram.
Some would describe it as a traffic nightmare along I-95 in West Haven, Orange and Milford this afternoon. Two coach buses, authorities presume were on their way to Connecticut Casinos, collided around 2:30 PM.
Two German tourists have been detained for taking their clothes off in the lobby of a Brazilian airport, authorities said Tuesday.
Some passengers on a diverted Aeromexico flight finally reached their destination in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday after spending 16 hours in limbo.
Coast Guard crews looked in the waters off San Diego County Saturday for an elderly couple who may have jumped off a cruise ship as it steamed past the area.
With yesterday's landing in the Hudson River of US Air Flight 1549, America is still stunned that all souls on board survived the potentially lethal crash. One hundred and fifty four people owe their lives to the quick thinking and vast experience of pilot Chelsey Sullenberger.
Decrease font Decrease font Enlarge font Enlarge font NEW YORK (CNN) -- Emergency officials are responding to a downed plane in the Hudson River in New York City, according to the city fire and police departments.
Chris Gray-Garcia was flying home to Washington D.C. this afternoon from a funeral in Denver, Colo. when he felt his America West Airlines flight suddenly jerk up and abort its landing at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport.
When Chris heard commotion on the Los Angeles bound Delta flight Wednesday and saw that the man had knocked down a stewardess and was struggling to open the plane's rear door, he intervened. While the man warned that he had a bomb, the 6-foot 26-year-old tackled him.
A Southwest Airlines pilot who was accused by travelers of being drunk was the scheduled captain of a flight from Port Columbus International Airport to Orlando, 10TV's Andy Hirsch reported on Thursday.
An investigation is under way to figure out why a mental health patient was traveling alone on a Continental Airlines flight from Houston to Omaha, Neb., KPRC Local 2 reported Friday.
Muslim Passengers Removed From Flight
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. -- Search crews were continuing the massive effort Monday to find a Central Florida woman who disappeared from a cruise ship at sea.
Excerpt: The U.S. Coast Guard and Mexican authorities are searching for an American woman who went missing on a cruise ship near Cancun, Mexico. Jennifer Seitz, 36, may have gone overboard.
An accident involving de-icing solution being sprayed on an Alaska Airlines plane in snow-covered Seattle sent seven people to a hospital Wednesday, airport and hospital officials said.
The crash was an accident. What happened afterward was described by police as nothing short of depravity.
---Video links contained within article.--- ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Investigators searched through the home of George and Cindy Anthony, Thursday night, after a child's remains were found near their home in the morning.
TEL AVIV, Israel (CNN) -- Keep your shoes and belts on: Waiting in long airport security lines to pass through metal detectors may soon be a thing of the past.