Against a backdrop of threats and insults from President Trump, Canadians have made a point of displaying national pride by shunning cross-border travel to the United States in favor of domestic tourism. But as many Canadians will tell you, flying within the country tends to be prohibitively expensive. The airfare from Toronto to Vancouver can…
Campbell Wilson stood in a gray suit before a camera last week to read a carefully worded statement about the plane operated by Air India, the company he leads, that had crashed hours earlier in Ahmedabad, India, with 242 people aboard. His remarks immediately drew criticism. Social media users said he appeared cold and lacking…
Newark Liberty International Airport has faced many disruptions in recent weeks. Technology outages, air traffic controller shortages and runway construction at the busy hub have led to scores of canceled and delayed flights. The Federal Aviation Administration says it’s trying to improve the situation, including with software and hardware upgrades. On Wednesday, it met with…
As Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, hosts President Trump in Doha on Wednesday, it will be the culmination of a successful charm offensive by the Gulf emirate that now appears likely to include the promise of a luxury jetliner to Mr. Trump — with no strings attached. The president, who has…
An air traffic control facility that guides planes at Newark Liberty International Airport suffered a brief radar outage on Friday morning, the latest technological disruption at one of the nation’s busiest airports. The Federal Aviation Administration said that the outage, which affected communications and radar displays at the facility in Philadelphia, occurred just before 4…
Indian aircraft went down after the country launched attacks against Pakistan this week, in what it said was retaliation for a terrorist attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir that killed 26 people and caused tensions between the two nations to boil over. The exact number and variety of lost aircraft is not yet clear. Two or three…
On a recent afternoon in Philadelphia, an air traffic controller began shouting that he had lost his radar feed for planes flying in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport. Some of his colleagues still had radar but their radios went dead, prompting frantic calls to their counterparts in New York urging them to keep…
Less than a year ago, executives from FedEx and UPS were talking about how they were handling a flood of packages from China to American consumers. “Explosive” is how Carol Tomé, UPS’s chief executive, in July described the volume of shipments from e-commerce companies selling Chinese goods in the United States. And FedEx’s chief customer…
Flying into or out of Newark Liberty International Airport has brought plenty of misery in the last week, with cancellations, delays stretching well past five hours and flight diversions that have stranded travelers far from their destinations. Passengers are reporting on social media that they have missed flights and spent hours stuck on the tarmac…
Brittany Romano, 32, was not looking to start her own long-distance rom-com last September when she showed up to the lounge at LaGuardia Airport’s Terminal B 10 minutes before her flight was set to board — but she did. That’s where she met Matt Harrington, 35, a schoolteacher from Pasadena, Calif. He had spied her…