Leslie Josephs

The violent removal of passenger David Dao from a United Airlines flight last month landed US airline executives in the hot seat on Capitol Hill this week, where they received hourslong scoldings by lawmakers over the vast powers the consolidated US airline industry has over prices and overbooking, and how it wields its authority over who gets to fly and who doesn’t, all of which contrasts sharply with consumers’ increasingly on-demand world.

Now it’s Delta’s turn.

Late last month, president Donald Trump ordered a review of what he called “another egregious use of federal power”: past presidents’ protection of large swaths of land from development and industry.

If you want to stick it to the airlines, pack light.

Try as high-end chefs might to perfect meals served at 35,000 feet, Anthony Bourdain isn’t biting. “No one has ever felt better after eating plane food,” he told Bon Appétit in 2014.

In 1913, Henry Ford’s moving assembly line slashed the production time of a Model T—and with it, the price.

It took a viral video showing the violent removal of a bloodied passenger from one of its flights to do it, but United Airlines is trying to improve its customer service.

Two Aeroflot flight attendants who accused the Russian airline of giving them lower-paying domestic routes because of their weight lost lawsuits against their employer this month.

The death of a giant rabbit that had flown on a United Airlines flight has rattled animal lovers around the world.

Climate change is no doubt a headache for winemakers. But right now it’s coming with the sweet aftertaste of what’s looking like the best Bordeaux vintage in years.

American Airlines has suspended a crew member and apologized for the lack of “empathy” shown by its employee to an upset passenger on a flight from San Francisco to Dallas, after a video surfaced showing yet another airline public-relations disaster in the making.

Flying is affordable, extremely safe, and as the comedian Louis C.K. reminds us, an amazing feat of physics.

You’ve worked hard to earn those airline rewards points, traveling the globe, going to boring conferences, splurging on clothing, forcing your friends to Venmo you back for those three rounds of French 76s you put on your credit card back in November.

United Airlines’ chief executive continued his apology tour on Monday (April 17), a week after a passenger was violently dragged off one of its flights for refusing to give up his seats to a crew member, creating a public relations disaster for the airline.

The patrons of hotel bars usually know a thing or two about escapism. But the Lobby Bar at the One Aldwych luxury hotel in London earlier this month started offering their customers a chance to take their lust for elsewhere a step further through the latest item on its menu: a virtual-reality headset.

A moment of silence, please, for the grubby old days of music festivals: contorting into the backseats of friends’ cars, skipping showers, camping in rain-doused dirt.

It takes four US visitors to equal the spending of just one foreign traveler in New York City, according to NYC & Company, the city’s tourism agency.

If social media is any gauge, United Airlines might be the worst company in the world. A graphic video of security agents dragging a ticketed passenger, David Dao, off a United flight after he refused to give up his seat for airline crew led to calls for a boycott of the airline. The tepid response from the carrier’s chief executive added to the public relations disaster.

A public-relations magazine last month awarded Oscar Munoz, the chief executive of United Airlines, with the honor of “communicator of the year.” Yes, that United Airlines.

In case the viral video of police violently dragging a man off an overbooked United Airlines flight in Chicago didn’t make it clear, let us repeat: Airlines often have more passengers than available seats and some carriers, apparently, aren’t afraid to kick you off.

The middle seat is so loathed by passengers that travelers often pay to avoid it. One hotel in Santa Monica, California even offers free room upgrades as a consolation to passengers who can prove they traveled in the middle seat.

United Airlines worked hard to generate buzz around Polaris, the carrier’s new business-class cabin. They appear to have been too successful.

There could be yet another unwelcome side effect to global warming: bumpier airplane rides.

Here’s another way Gulf airlines are trying to get passengers to buy expensive seats in their plush premium cabins: They are offering first- and business-class passengers free loaner laptops and tablets to get around the Trump administration’s ban of in-cabin electronics on US-bound flights.