53 h. ago Passenger flight and Air Force jet diverted from potential collision at DC airport

A U.S. passenger flight preparing to leave the nation’s capital and an incoming military jet received instructions to divert and prevent a possible collision, officials said. Delta Air Lines Flight 2983 was cleared for takeoff at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Friday around 3:15 p.m., the same time four U.S. Air Force T-38 Talon […]

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2 d. ago Flair Airlines passenger speaks out after being forced off flight

A Montreal woman who just returned from a vacation to Mexico says her trip took a turn for the worse as she was heading home Sunday.

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1 week ago Several Canadian flights cancelled after London fire caused power outage at Heathrow

TORONTO — Several arriving and departing flights between cities across Canada and London’s Heathrow Airport were cancelled after an overnight fire caused a power outage and forced the British airport to close Friday, with further flight disruptions expected to last for days. As of early Friday, Toronto’s Pearson airport listed at least five scheduled arriving […]

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1 week ago Flair Airlines cancels summer Nashville route as state blames trade war

Other Canadian carriers have already dialed back on U.S. flights as demand wanes

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1 week ago Locker fire forces Hong Kong Airlines jet into emergency landing

(Bloomberg) — A mid-air fire in the overhead lockers on a Hong Kong Airlines flight forced the jet into an emergency landing in China Thursday. None of the 168 passengers and crew on board were reported injured. Flight HX115, an Airbus SE A320 jet, took-off from Hangzhou, China en route to Hong Kong just before […]

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2 w. ago Another delay hits stuck NASA astronauts, as SpaceX forced to postpone flight

The crew onboard were already buckled into their flight capsule when an engineering issue was identified by ground staff in Florida.

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3 w. ago Clogged toilets force Air India flight to return to U.S. in 10

Clogged toilets forced a flight from Chicago to the Indian city, Delhi, to turn around after 10 hours in the air. Air India Flight 126 left the gate at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on March 5 at about 11 a.m. and spent 10 hours and nine minutes in the air before it returned to its […]

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3 w. ago Canadians’ travel to U.S. continues to drop amid weak loonie, tariffs

Air Canada has announced a decrease of 10 per cent in flights to three sun destinations, while Flair Airlines says U.S.-bound flights are down by 24 per cent for March.

Economics

3 w. ago Canadian airline offering ‘tariffic flight deals’ to anywhere but the U.S.

'Nothing trumps this deal,' Flair Airlines says of its 25% off flash sale on domestic and non-U.S. international flights

Economics

4 w. ago Passengers forced to sit next to dead body after woman dies on flight

A shaken couple revealed they had to sit next to the body of another passenger after a woman on their plane died mid-flight. Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin were on a Qatar Airways flight from Melbourne to Doha on their way to their vacation in Venice, Italy when a woman onboard “collapsed” and died, they […]

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