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As air travel returns to pre-pandemic levels, there have been as almost five times as many unruly passenger reports in 2021 than in the last five years combined. News4’s Scott MacFarlane reports.

The Department of Transportation issued a new rule Wednesday that when it comes to air travel, only dogs can be considered service animals.

Upwards of 40,000 airline employees are facing an uncertain future now that airlines are furloughing employees. This all had to do with federal money that has dried up in the wake of the pandemic. Transportation Reporter Adam Tuss shows how you could be affected by these cuts as well.

Did the airline lose your luggage? Here’s what to do if your bags are delayed or lost.

American Airlines says Friday they’re expanding travel alerts and allowing passengers traveling to change flights for no additional fees due to winter storms in the northeast and Midwest.

Black Eyed Peas musician will.i.am has accused a flight attendant from Australia’s national carrier Qantas of being racist and rude to him on a flight. The musician said he was met by police at Sydney Airport on Saturday after an incident with an “overly aggressive flight attendant” who he says was upset with him because he couldn’t hear her through...

A man who allegedly groped a female airline passenger, leading to an emergency landing, is facing federal charges for criminal sexual misconduct, NBC News reports. James Clayton Cholewinski-Boyd, 32, who is listed in some court records as Cholewinski-Boy, was charged in connection to an incident on a flight earlier this week from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Salt Lake City, according...

American and Southwest airlines announced Friday plans to resume commercial flights of the Boeing 737 Max aircraft in March 2020.

Delta Air Lines said Friday night it would immediately begin showing versions of the films “Booksmart” and “Rocketman” that include scenes covering girls’ sexuality and gay identity. The scenes had previously been omitted from in-flight showings, NBC News reports. The airline was singled out on social media for running edited versions of “Booksmart,” a comedy about high school friends directed...

Delta Air Lines said Friday night it would immediately begin showing versions of the films “Booksmart” and “Rocketman” that include scenes covering girls’ sexuality and gay identity. The scenes had previously been omitted from in-flight showings, NBC News reports. The airline was singled out on social media for running edited versions of “Booksmart,” a comedy about high school friends directed...

A lawsuit filed against Southwest Airlines by a flight attendant alleges pilots on a 2017 flight had an iPad streaming video from a hidden camera in a bathroom in one of the airline’s jets.

Two crew members and a passenger on an American Airlines plane bound for Philadelphia were treated in a hospital in Dublin on Monday after fumes from spilled cleaning fluid forced an emergency landing.

Alaska Airlines was ordered to pay $25 million to about a thousand of its employees for withholding information on wage statements.

The airline apologized in a statement Sunday for the three-hour delay on its Orlando-Atlanta flight as the woman was taken off the plane, and officials screened all passengers again.

A Delta Airlines employee has been arrested in connection with the case of $250,000 in cash that apparently vanished from John F. Kennedy Airport as it was being transferred onto one of the airline’s flights en route to Florida, a law enforcement source close to the investigation tells News 4.

The British government has flown home the first 14,500 people stranded by the collapse of tour operator Thomas Cook, and is expected to ramp up the repatriation effort to get all the 150,000 U.K.-based customers home in two weeks. The Civil Aviation Authority said Tuesday the first batch of people were flown back after Thomas Cook ceased all operations Monday,...

British Airways says it has had to cancel almost all flights as a result of a pilots’ 48-hour strike over pay. In a statement Monday, the airline said it had “no way of predicting how many (pilots) would come to work or which aircraft they are qualified to fly.” As a result, it said it had “no option but to...

An American Airlines mechanic is accused of sabotaging a flight over stalled union contract negotiations.

An aircraft maintenance worker at Miami’s airport allegedly tampered with a critical piece of a passenger plane’s hardware in July to get overtime pay amid a stalled union contract dispute, according to court documents. The American Airlines plane with 150 people on board never left for the scheduled July 17 flight from Miami to Nassau in the Bahamas after flight...