Airline News

Expect disruptions to linger: For Tuesday, there were already 1,850 cancellations, and nearly half the flights out of LaGuardia, JFK, Newark, and Boston are canceled.

Travelers were left stranded in Puerto Vallarta as violence broke out throughout the country following the killing of the cartel leader of one of Mexico’s most powerful criminal organizations.

As joint ventures and other bespoke partnerships reshape global aviation, alliances must prove they still matter.

The race to modernize aviation is underway. Legacy systems, static loyalty models, and siloed operations are giving way to connected, digital systems built for scale. The carriers that move early and build smart will set the pace for the next decade of air travel.

Dubai built Emirates to drive economic growth — and succeeded beyond imagination. Now a new chapter is unfolding. Emirates is expanding cautiously, while FlyDubai and Etihad push aggressively into new markets and Air Arabia carries low-cost flying further afield. With hundreds of aircraft on order, new hubs taking shape, and regional competition intensifying, the Gulf aviation story is evolving quickly. We explore what might come next in this week’s feature story.

As a blizzard is slated to dump at least a foot of snow in much of the Northeast, airlines are canceling thousands of flights.

DHS is suspending two widely used travel programs as the partial government shutdown continues.

United is overhauling its MileagePlus program to give more awards to those with the carrier’s credit cards as it looks to attract more high-spend travelers.

Premium travelers, led by U.S. outbound, are keeping Europe’s network carriers profitable even as demand in the rest of the plane – and other parts of the world – softens.

Airlines are saying that AI is becoming an edge in running day-to-day operations — and a new source of risk that could quickly erode trust if it goes wrong.