Officials grounded a plane in Portugal for four days earlier this month after an unlikely cargo came loose and threatened to cause havoc onboard the aircraft. The TAP Air Portugal …
Photo: Anna Zvereva / Wikimedia Commons Turbine jet-powered airplanes are the highest maintenance vehicles on the planes, so being cut off from the necessary firehose of spare parts will have …
Photo: Brandon Bell (Getty Images) Spirit Airlines announced on Thursday that it will furlough 330 pilots at the end of January next year. The canary yellow-branded carrier has been in …
Photo: Jason Redmond / AFP (Getty Images) Believe it or not, commercial planes aren’t designed to collide with anything except adorably aloof birds at both 575 miles per hour while …
For more than 25 years, it was possible to fly from New York to London in under three hours, all while being pampered with first class luxury on the British …
If there’s one place you really, really don’t want to experience any engine problems, it’s when you’re more than 30,000 feet in the air and strapped inside a glorified cigar …