Flight
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Economy
Flight Delays and Cancellations Continue Saturday but in Lower Numbers
An estimated 3,400 flights to, from and within the United States were canceled on Friday because of a tech outage.…
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Sports
A Wildly Obscene Term’s Path to Mainstream Usage
When combined with innocuous acts, “rawdogging” has left its overtly sexual origins behind, just like many other dirty slang words…
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World
Severe Turbulence on Air Europa Flight Fractures Necks and Skulls
Four passengers were in intensive care after the flight from Spain to Uruguay hit turbulence that injured dozens. The plane…
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World
12 Injured After Turbulence on Flight From Qatar to Ireland
The Dublin Airport said that a Qatar Airways flight from Doha landed in Ireland after a dozen people were injured…
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Economy
6 Podcasts About the Joys and Terrors of Air Travel
In this month’s roundup, true stories of air disasters (and why they’re so rare), as well as love letters to…
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Politics
63 Years Later, First Black Man Trained as Astronaut Goes to Space
Edward Dwight was among the first pilots that the United States was training to send to space in 1961, but…
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World
U.S. Restarts Deportation Flights to Haiti
The Biden administration had paused deportations of Haitian migrants in recent months as their home country was wracked by violence.
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World
Boeing Directs Airlines to Check 787 Cockpit Seats After Latam Incident
The sudden plunge of a Latam Airlines 787 Dreamliner this week might have been caused by a flight attendant hitting…
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Economy
Help! Air Canada Ruined Our Trip to Ireland but Won’t Take the Blame.
A Minnesota couple’s vacation fell apart after a jet bridge accident and a code-share snafu led to two nights of…
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World
‘Strong Movement’ on Flight to New Zealand Leaves Dozens Injured
The airline, Latam, said a “technical problem” had caused the incident. Most of the injuries were minor, but one person…