United Airlines
Help! My Lost Luggage Wasn’t Delivered for 12 Days. I Want Restitution.
I wasn’t born yesterday. Elvira Nurbayeva, the Kazakh carrier’s manager for corporate communications, had already passed along documentation from WorldTracer, an international service that works with airlines to track lost luggage, saying that your bags were left in Newark. The reason: That you “DID NOT CLAIM AND CHECK IN FOR INTL FLT.” This “obviously means […]
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Airline Pilots Seek Big Raises, and Broader Changes
Staffing shortages, bad weather, high fuel prices and runaway inflation — airlines face plenty of challenges as they seek to benefit from a strong travel rebound. But there’s at least one other complication in the mix: negotiating new pilot contracts. Each of the nation’s largest carriers is in the process of trying to strike a […]
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Southwest and JetBlue Expect Higher Second-Quarter Revenues as Travel Booms
The travel rebound is shaping up to be even stronger than airlines expected, helping to make up for rising fuel prices. Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways said on Thursday that their revenues in the second quarter were on track to be higher than the companies had projected. The announcements are the latest sign that people […]
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The End of the All-Male, All-White Cockpit
Then the university called off its partnership with the flight school, making it difficult for Ms. Percy to get the pilot training she needed in time to graduate, so she switched to a concentration in aviation management. It wasn’t until she arrived at the Lt. Col. Luke Weathers Jr. Flight Academy, which was started by […]
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Airlines Expect Booming Travel Ahead. Can They Keep Up?
In all, American has expanded its work force by 12,000 employees, or 10 percent, since last summer. Delta said last week that it had added about 15,000 workers since the start of last year. United has hired 6,000 this year. But as of February, none of the major carriers had returned to prepandemic employment levels, […]
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Which U.S. Airlines Dropped Their Mask Mandate
After a federal judge struck down a nationwide mask requirement for airplanes, trains, buses and other public transportation on Monday, the country’s largest airlines said they would stop requiring masks on flights, ending a practice that most carriers followed for nearly two years. The airlines acted after a Biden administration official said the Transportation Security […]
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United Airlines Cuts Flights as Workers Call Out Sick
But the change in health guidance would not give airlines much relief, at least not right away. The weather — and the flight cancellations — continued to get worse, peaking on Jan. 3, when airlines canceled more than 3,100 flights, or about 13 percent of all scheduled trips. It wasn’t until Monday that the number […]
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Delta Air Lines updates its Covid-19 policies after the C.D.C.’s new guidance.
Delta Air Lines has updated its policies for workers who get sick with the coronavirus, soon after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shortened its recommended isolation period for Americans infected with Covid-19. Delta was one of the first companies to adapt to the updated guidance, which it had publicly called on the C.D.C. […]
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Airlines Cancel Hundreds More Flights as Virus Scrambles Air Travel
Over 1,000 flights in the United States, and thousands more globally, were canceled Sunday as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus sidelined crews during one of the year’s busiest weekends for travel. As of Sunday evening, more than 1,300 flights with at least one stop in the United States, and over two times as many […]
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