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United Airlines, American Airlines are increasing business-class seats

United Airlines, American Airlines are increasing business-class seats

American Airlines new business-class suite. American Airlines DALLAS — Armed with dollops of caviar and handfuls of Bang & Olufsen headphones, U.S. airlines are duking it out for international business-class dominance. There are even differences between seats in the same cabin. Next week, American Airlines plans to start flying its upgraded business-class “suites” that feature … Read more

Musk’s SpaceX town in Texas proposes a new map and zoning

Musk’s SpaceX town in Texas proposes a new map and zoning

The neighborhood once known as Boca Chica Village is seen near the SpaceX facilities where they build rockets in Brownsville, Texas, on May 3, 2025. Gabriel Cardenas | AFP | Getty Images Starbase, Texas, has notified some residents that they might “lose the right to continue using” their property as they do today, according to … Read more

Boeing to resume airplane deliveries to China, CEO says

Boeing to resume airplane deliveries to China, CEO says

Boeing Co. 737 Max fuselages at the company’s manufacturing facility in Renton, Washington, on April 15, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boeing‘s airplane deliveries to China will resume next month after handovers were paused amid a trade war with the Trump administration, CEO Kelly Ortberg said Thursday, as he brushed off the impact … Read more

United Airlines to return to JFK in new partnership with JetBlue

United Airlines to return to JFK in new partnership with JetBlue

United Airlines has a new friend in Queens. The airline plans to return to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport again, this time through a new partnership with JetBlue Airways. The partnership, called Blue Sky, will allow the airlines to sell seats on each other’s sites and let JetBlue customers earn frequent flyer miles on United and … Read more

Southwest Airlines starts charging many flyers to check bags this week

Southwest Airlines starts charging many flyers to check bags this week

Passengers check in for Southwest Airlines flights at Chicago Midway International Airport on Feb. 18, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Set your alarm. Southwest Airlines customers have only one day to go before the company starts charging to check bags for the first time in more than half a century. Starting … Read more

United Airlines reaches labor deal with flight attendants, union says

United Airlines reaches labor deal with flight attendants, union says

United Airline flight attendants picketed outside Terminal B at Logan Airport Thursday morning seeking a new contract. John Tlumacki | Boston Globe | Getty Images United Airlines reached an “industry-leading” tentative labor deal for its 28,000 flight attendants, their union said Friday. The deal includes “40% of total economic improvements” in the first year and … Read more

Boeing, DOJ reach deal to avoid prosecution over 737 Max crashes

Boeing, DOJ reach deal to avoid prosecution over 737 Max crashes

Ethiopian Federal policemen stand at the scene of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 plane crash, near the town of Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia March 11, 2019. Tiksa Negeri | Reuters The U.S. Justice Department said Friday that it has reached a deal with Boeing that will allow the aircraft maker to avoid … Read more

L3Harris to pay $62 million

L3Harris to pay  million

Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Defense contractor L3Harris Technologies will pay $62 million to settle allegations that it lied about the prices of equipment it sold to the U.S. military years earlier, the Justice Department said Thursday.  L3Harris was recently tapped to help modify a luxury Boeing 747 jet from Qatar‘s royal family that President … Read more

American Airlines CFO says some travelers are avoiding Newark airport

American Airlines CFO says some travelers are avoiding Newark airport

The FAA Air Traffic Control tower at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey on May 7, 2025. Kena Betancur | AFP | Getty Images American Airlines chief financial officer said Thursday that some travelers are avoiding Newark Liberty International Airport for other options in the area after a spate of recent disruptions, but … Read more

Trump rolls out ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense system plan

Trump rolls out ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense system plan

U.S. President Donald Trump makes an announcement regarding the Golden Dome missile defense shield next to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 20, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump rolled out plans for a multibillion dollar ‘Golden Dome‘ missile defense shield … Read more