A high load factor indicates that an airline has full planes with most seats occupied by passengers. Airlines have high fixed costs associated with each flight. Every flight must have a full ...

When Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 took off from Baku on Christmas Day, it was struck mid-flight by a suspected surface-to-air missile, causing catastrophic damage and disabling the Embraer 190 ...

These are the heartbreaking last words of a flight attendant on board the doomed Azerbaijan Airlines plane that was reportedly shot down by a Russian missile on Christmas Day. Chief flight ...

The user said he or she witnessed an "alarming amount of people" not handing their trash to the flight attendants for collection prior to the plane's landing. "While we are waiting to disembark ...

Robert Alexander/Getty A Hawaii-bound Delta Air Lines flight from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport was delayed over two hours on Christmas Eve when a stowaway was discovered by flight ...

An unticketed airline passenger in Seattle managed to bypass security and airline officials before boarding a flight bound for Honolulu earlier this week — only to be apprehended as the aircraft ...

More than 700 flights within, into or out of the US have been canceled Thursday, including hundreds of flights headed into or out of Dallas-Fort Worth, according to the flight tracking website ...

This comes just weeks after a stowaway was caught on a different Delta flight. The passenger in this week's incident went through standard security screenings but bypassed the identity ...

Flight attendants and a passenger described the moments before an Azerbaijan Airlines flight went down in Kazakhstan, killing dozens. By Milana Mazaeva and Ivan Nechepurenko Reporting from Tbilisi ...

A passenger on board a Delta Air Lines flight from Cincinnati might have ended up on Santa's naughty list after bad behavior forced the plane to take a detour to Kansas City during Christmas week.

Sitting at Washington Dulles International Airport earlier this year, Ady Beitler overheard both sides of an argument so caustic that “if it was my marriage, it would have been a breakup.” For ...

Qantas is investigating a mechanical issue that forced a flight to be diverted mid-air while over Antarctica on Christmas Day. QF63 departed from Sydney shortly before 10am on Wednesday and was ...