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Photo: Carlos Yudica (Shutterstock)Kayak has a lot of neat features that make traveling easy, including one that allows you to filter out a certain type of plane that ripped a little boy’s shirt off when its door blew out 16,000 feet in the air. That feature has seen a 15-fold increase in usage since Alaska Airlines’ Boeing 737 Max 9 gave the whole plane an unexpected window seat. Alex Winter on His Character in Destroy All Neighbors “Following the spike in usage, Kayak moved its filter up so it’s more prominent for…

Photo: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP (Getty Images)Boeing, one of the world’s largest aircraft manufacturers, has been in the news a lot lately but not in a good way. Safety incidents involving the company’s planes keep cropping up and this week brought yet another example of that unfortunate trend. On Thursday, an Atlas Air 747 cargo plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Florida after one of its engines burst into flames. Alex Winter on His Character in Destroy All Neighbors The plane, which took off from Miami en…

Updated Jan. 6, 2024 11:09 pm ETAfter a section of an Alaska Airlines flight ripped away midair, travelers are once again asking about the safety—and future—of their flights on Boeing’s 737 MAX.The Federal Aviation Administration grounded 171 Boeing MAX 9s on Saturday and ordered immediate inspections. The inspections take four to eight hours per aircraft, the agency said.Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Updated Jan. 6, 2024 11:09 pm ETAfter a section…

The last thing Boeing needed was more trouble with its 737 MAX jet. That is exactly what it got to start the new year.The company had just started to regain its footing following years of tumult around the popular but troubled line of narrow-body jets when a MAX 9 operated by Alaska Airlines had a structural failure Friday night.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 The last thing Boeingneeded was more trouble with its 737 MAX jet. That is exactly what it…

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Listen to article(2 minutes)Airline credit-card pitches are inescapable, from the mailings stuffing your mailbox to the hard sells as you await takeoff. Are the attractive offers worth your money?Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Listen to article(2 minutes)Airline credit-card pitches are inescapable, from the mailings stuffing your mailbox to the hard sells as you await takeoff. Are the attractive offers worth your money?Copyright ©2023Dow Jones &…

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Photo: Philip Pilosian (Shutterstock)In aviation, a “tail strike” is an unfortunate incident in which a plane’s tail literally strikes the runway, the ground, or another stationary object. Typically, such episodes will occur during take off or landing and, typically, they’re not considered dangerous. However, that’s not always the case, and they have been known to cause real damage to planes. Well, here’s some less than comforting news: earlier this week, it was reported that a bizarre incident had occurred at…

Chaos. Bedlam. A nightmare. Delta Air Lines Chief Executive Ed Bastian, speaking on his airline’s earnings call last week, described 2022 as “the most difficult operational year in our history.” This from the airline that gave travelers the fewest fits in 2022. Delta ranked first among nine U.S. carriers in The Wall Street Journal’s 15th annual airline scorecard for the second consecutive year and fifth of the past six. Alaska Airlines, a unit…

The budget-travel pioneer on Monday scrapped about 60% of its schedule, or more than 2,500 flights, after Southwest on Christmas Day canceled about 46% of its flights, according to FlightAware. Chief Executive Bob Jordan told employees in a message Sunday evening that it might take a few more days to get back on track. “The winter storm was unprecedented all across our network. And we’ve got fallout from that—just trying to get the network back to normal,” he said. Other airlines…