Air Travel

Service workers at Charlotte Douglas International Airport have gone on strike during a busy week of Thanksgiving travel to protest what they say are unlivable wages.

Airports in New York and nationwide are preparing for the travel rush as we head into the busy holiday season. News 4’s Melissa Colorado reports on what’s expected in the week ahead.

Airline passengers trying to get an early start to the Thanksgiving travel season are facing some delays in the New York City area after a storm brought rain, snow and high winds to the tri-state on Friday. The New York City metro area’s three big airports — Newark, JFK and LaGuardia — have nearly 200 delays on Friday, according to…

In airports across the U.S. and globe, the moving sidewalks that get passengers to gates are disappearing.

Areas north and west of New York City area seeing the first snow of the season Friday morning, particularly at higher elevations.

Officials in the Justice Department, which oversees the DEA, ordered that the searches be suspended pending an internal evaluation.

A passenger rushed a flight attendant to open a door mid-flight on an American Airlines flight from Milwaukee to DFW Airport on Tuesday, but other passengers stepped in and duct taped the man’s arms and legs until the plane landed.

Flying with Thanksgiving food? Here’s everything you need to know before getting to the airport security checkpoint with that frozen turkey.

The AirTag said the checked bag was inside the airport, but United Airlines said it couldn’t find it. The bag later traveled 30 miles away.

The Transportation Security Administration is preparing for what it estimates will be the busiest Thanksgiving travel period of record. The TSA estimated it will screen 18.3 million people at the nation’s airports from Tuesday, Nov. 26 (two days before Thanksgiving) to Monday, Dec. 2, a 6% increase from the same time in 2023. In 2024, passenger volumes have reached a…

AAA projects that 79.9 million Americans will go 50 miles or more away from home over the Thanksgiving holidays.

Spirit Airlines said Monday that it has filed for bankruptcy protection and will attempt to reboot as it struggles to recover from the pandemic-caused swoon in travel and a failed attempt to sell the airline to JetBlue. Spirit, the biggest U.S. budget airline, has lost more than $2.5 billion since the start of 2020 and faces looming debt payments totaling…

Spirit Airlines has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, becoming the first major U.S. passenger carrier to do so since American Airlines 13 years ago.

The airline hasn’t posted an annual profit since 2019 and lost more than $335 million in the first half of the year.

With air travel reaching new heights, the Department of Transportation has stepped in with new refund rules to help passengers get their money back if trips don’t go as planned.

Haiti’s airport is temporarily closing as gangs were attempting to take control of it, the US Embassy reported Monday.

Passengers were watching the closing seconds of the Lions’ game on their seatback screens when the broadcast audio paused and the message “An announcement is in progress…” appeared. 

A Spirit Airlines flight traveling from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was diverted to the Dominican Republic after the aircraft was struck by gunfire Monday, the airline confirmed in a statement.

No one among the 190 passengers and seven crew members was injured Oct. 5 on Flight 1326 from San Diego, according to a NTSB preliminary report.

The Department of Transportation’s new refund policy for delayed and canceled flights is now fully in effect. NBC6’s Sasha Jones has more