The police confiscated a kite on Saturday after it was flown near airplanes landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport, according to the airport police, and after a witness said he saw it make contact with a landing plane. United Airlines said that it “was aware of reports” that a kite had been in the path … Read more
A United Airlines flight from Houston appeared to have struck a kite while landing at Washington Reagan National Airport on Saturday. The pilots reported the kite flying over Gravelly Point, a park just off the runway along the banks of the Potomac River on the Virginia side, according to Air Traffic Control audio. Flying kites … Read more
Airlines are having to revamp their plans ahead of the peak summer travel season as Canadians avoid trips to the United States amid an escalating trade war between the two neighbors. A grass roots effort by Canadians to boycott all things American — from U.S. grocery products and alcohol to tourist hot spots — had … Read more
A 20-year-old US man is suing United Airlines claiming that a pilot got him arrested after forcefully dragging him out of the bathroom mid-flight with his pants still down because he was taking too long. According to the New York Post, Yisroel Liebb from New Jersey was 30 minutes into a flight from Mexico to … Read more
Warren Hu had just settled into his flight from New York to London, where he planned to visit his girlfriend, when he became one of the thousands of passengers whose travel was thrown into disarray early Friday because of a fire near Heathrow Airport. The plane carrying Mr. Hu, a college student in New York, … Read more