Delta Air Lines and United Airlines were ordered by a federal judge to face a consumer antitrust class action accusing major US carriers of conspiring to drive up domestic airfares by reducing the number of available seats. In a decision on Tuesday, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, DC, said passengers offered a “fair amount” or … Read more
This fall marks the 20th anniversary since the final flight of Concorde, the world’s first supersonic commercial airliner. Traveling at twice the speed of sound — around 1,350 mph — Concorde could take passengers from New York to London in under three hours. But the enormous costs of maintaining the plane — along with a … Read more
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby has acknowledged that the carrier’s pilots are shunning promotion to the captain’s chair, hurting its flight capacity in the fourth quarter, confirming what Reuters reported earlier this week. Multiple pilots at United told Reuters that senior first officers have been avoiding promotion to captain as they do not want the unpredictable schedule that … Read more
The Felders spent the last days of their family vacation camping – in Newark Airport. “I had to spend $143 on five blankets,” Shaliece Felder told the Post. “The only way we managed to secure cots was because someone saw my kids on the floor.” The Felders’ United flight was supposed to depart Monday to … Read more
He’s got the golden ticket. Tom Stuker, 69, has covered more miles in the air than any individual traveler in history, with no plans on stopping. After hitting 23 million miles of air travel, he owes his time in the sky to one purchase he made in 1990 when he snagged a United Airlines lifetime … Read more
The sky’s the limit for this family — literally. A Utah-based TikToker shared what it’s like having a father and brother as pilots and a mother as a flight attendant — all for the same airline. Skylar Horanyi, 26, is the only member of her immediate family that is not working for United Airlines but … Read more
Airline passengers feeling the pinch of sky-high fares are increasingly resorting to an old trick to save some money by booking flights with a layover to their intended city and ditching the second leg of the trip. Although not a new concept, “skiplagging” — also known as “hidden-city” or “throwaway” ticketing — has been gaining … Read more
The company’s name may be United, but this couple says the airline left them to fend for themselves. A woman has claimed that her fiancé was booted from his first-class seat to coach on an international United Airlines flight — to sit a crew member there instead. Danielle Schwab and her fiancé Mikey were allegedly … Read more
She’s hoping this idea takes off. A plus-size TikToker is arguing that airlines should make plane aisles wider to accommodate larger passengers, calling the current layout “discrimination.” The woman, who posts to the platform as Big Curvy Olivia, shared a video this week showing herself struggling to traverse a United Airlines plane, having to turn … Read more
Americans aren’t feeling the Spirit in the sky. In an anonymous survey taken on May 1, travel resource site, the Vacationer, asked over 1,000 Americans which of the 10 major US-based carriers that they avoid flying. And Spirit Airlines had the dubious distinction of finishing on top with 21%. Allegiant Air finished second with 16.36% … Read more
Blue Jays pitcher Anthony Bass didn’t back down from critics who challenged his complaint against United Airlines following an alleged incident with his pregnant wife. In a message posted Sunday on Twitter, the 35-year-old Bass provided more context about the ordeal after alleging a United Airlines flight attendant made his 22-week pregnant wife, Sydney Rae … Read more
Blue Jays pitcher Anthony Bass has a bone to pick with United Airlines. Expressing his frustrations on Twitter, the 35-year-old Bass alleged that a flight attendant on a United Airlines flight made his pregnant wife get on the floor and pick up the mess made by his 2-year-old daughter. “The flight attendant @united just made … Read more
Transgender flight attendant Kayleigh Scott — who gained fame after appearing in a United Airlines commercial — was found dead Monday in her Colorado home. She was 25. Scott, who shared her transition story for a 2020 Trans Day of Visibility video produced by United, declared in a 2:30 a.m. Instagram post that she was … Read more
The captain of a United Airlines flight scheduled to take off the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, is convinced his plane was intended to be part of the coordinated terrorist attack. “There is a good chance that somebody was plotting to try to use our airplane as a weapon of mass destruction,” pilot Tom Mannello says … Read more
It was a long, long journey home. Four years after Oregon resident April Gavin took a business trip to Chicago, where United Airlines lost her luggage, her itinerant suitcase surfaced — in Honduras. Gavin recounted the saga, which isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement for United Airlines’ baggage services, on TikTok, where she goes by the … Read more
A woman went viral for using an Apple AirTag to track down her luggage after United Airlines supposedly lost her bag and lied about its whereabouts. To close out 2022, Valerie Szybala enjoyed her first international trip in years, but the fun swiftly ended when she landed at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on December … Read more
One airline’s latest decision is weighing heavy on customers. United Airlines’ flights are shaping up to most comfortable coach seating in awhile. Between this month and April 30 of next year, the airline will block off up to six seats on its fleet of Boeing 757s, a company spokesperson told the “Live and Let’s Fly” … Read more