The Federal Aviation Administration is stepping up its oversight of United Airlines after a string of incidents. 8 months ago United Airlines now lets loyalty members pool award miles with up to 5 people United Airlines has announced it will allow groups up to five people on a MileagePlus accou...
United Airlines is asking pilots to voluntarily take unpaid leave because of reduced flight capacity stemming from delayed shipments ofBoeing aircraft. The delayed deliveries come after aslew of safety incidentsinvolving United aircraft that have led the the Federal Aviation Administration to tighten its ...
Incidents aren't evenly spaced out Given how many flights airlines operate every year and how technical aircraft operations are, some hitches are expected. "We see these kinds of events happen, and not all of them were preventable from United's perspective," Mark Millam, director of technica...
United Airlines 433 with the missing external panel from its plane. The flight landed in Medford, Ore. without incident. Photo by Andy Atkinson with Rogue Valley Times. SAN FRANCISCO - A United Airlines flight landed with a missing panel from the plane, believed to have fallen mid-flight. Th...
I have been in the situation several times where I have been on a plane where someone else was in my seat... I recall such incidents in the past too (never *to* me, just *near* me). It may be (as V50 seems to suggest) that modern technology has enabled the overbooking to be...
United Airlines Boeing plane. (Credit: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images) The incident comes on the heels of other incidents that have occurred with the airline over the past week. RELATED: United tells Boeing to stop making the Max 10s the airline ordered: report Last week, a whe...
The CEO of United Airlines says that a slew of recent incidents ranging from a piece of aluminum skin falling off a plane to another jet losing a wheel on takeoff will cause the airline to review its safety training for employees. CEO Scott Kirby said the airline was already planning an ex...
In the past two weeks, United Airlines experienced eight incidents on its flights, including engine fires, tire loss, and plane veering off the runway, leading to emergency landings. While no injuries were reported, the incidents raised concerns about...
Facing public outrage, United finally apologized and promised that this kind of incidents would never happen again. It is not clear if the United would like to choose a settlement or go to court. The City of Chicago could also be sued, as the aviation security officers were hired by the ...
Such incidents are rare but have occurred recently and regulators will likely examine common threads. Dutch regulators said are investigating an engine fire on a Boeing 747 cargo plane that was also powered by Pratt and Whitney PW4000 engines, after parts of one of the engines fell shortly a...