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United Airlines passengers spent 28 hours traveling across the Pacific Ocean as their flight made two unscheduled landings.Flight 870, from Sydney to San Francisco, typically takes around 13 hours.The Boeing 777 departed Australia on Sunday at around 11:30 a.m. local time, an hour later than scheduled, according to data from Flightradar24. If passengers were irritated…

Air Canada is turning to loyalty-program promotions as Donald Trump's policies have led to a decline in traffic.On Monday morning, the airline's customers in the UK received an email offering triple the number of Aeroplan reward points for flights to Canada and the US.The promotion, which began a week earlier, is applicable to flights through…

A Ryanair flight was said to have made an emergency landing after a woman gave birth to a baby on board.The flight from Brussels to the Spanish province of Castellón was diverted to Limoges in southwestern France.Flight 4797 took off from the Belgian capital at about 1:40 p.m. on Thursday, according to data from Flightradar24.…

US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he plans to reduce the number of flights at Newark Liberty International Airport over the "next several weeks."Duffy spoke to NBC News' "Meet the Press" Sunday morning, as another air traffic control outage again grounded flights at the airport. Operations have since returned to normal, the Federal Aviation Administration…

Another flight had a precarious moment when a passenger's device got stuck in a seat.Hawaiian Airlines Flight 457 was traveling from Honolulu to Tokyo on Monday.Partway through the journey, flight attendants noticed an "electrical smell" in the cabin, an airline spokesperson told Business Insider.They added that it was "coming from a guest's mobile device that…

United Airlines' CEO has backed Donald Trump's tariff plan despite the uncertainty it is causing the travel sector."We should all take a breath," Scott Kirby said at the Semafor World Economy Summit on Thursday. "It was just the first move in a chess game, and there are a lot of moves left to come.""I think…

Finding a Spirit Airlines flight is looking a lot harder this summer.According to data from Cirium, an aviation analytics firm, the budget airline has scheduled 12,000 fewer flights through May and June compared to the same period last year — a decline of around 24%.Research from Deutsche Bank analysts places the June decline for Spirit's domestic…

Dubai's airline is by far the world's largest operator of the A380. Emirates has 118, 24 of which are in storage or maintenance, per Ch-aviation data.Like its rival Middle Eastern airlines, Emirates' A380 is highly luxurious — with business-class passengers able to visit the bar or even book a shower.The airline's president, Tim Clark, told…

First class is enjoying a resurgence — and Saudi Arabia's new airline plans to include the elite cabin on some of its planes.Riyadh Air is in talks about a third aircraft type in addition to its orders for dozens of Airbus A321neos and Boeing 787 Dreamliners."We are at the moment involved in an extra-wide-body campaign…

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Honeywell developed two new systems designed to make takeoffs and landings safer. Surf-A alerts pilots about potential runway collisions. Smart-X lets pilots know if they are taking off or landing on a taxiway instead…