While lawmakers continue to fight over raising the country's borrowing limit, the shutdown of several federal agencies is making it harder for people who take to the skies. The aviation industry is ...

If you’ve ever sat on a plane wondering why the pilot announced that you’d be landing soon but seemed to be flying in circles with no runway in sight, you’ve probably been in a holding pattern.

Holding patterns for airports in dusty regions are particularly potentially damaging to aircraft engines, analysis of dust ingestion at 10 airports worldwide has found. Arrival holds contributed over ...

A new study suggests the effects of dust damage to engines could be significantly reduced by changing the timings of flights and the altitudes at which aircraft are held prior to landing. According to ...

A ground delay is in effect at Minneapolis - St. Paul International Airport, with more than 100 flights canceled and hundreds ...

A JetBlue plane was en route to Puerto Rico when its pilots got word from air-traffic control they were about to fly through ...