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US airline Delta is looking to harness the tech to set prices for each individual customer, instead of just listing what they actually cost.

Artificial Intelligence

Delta Announces New System Where AI Makes Up the Price for Your Ticket on the Spot

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Terra satellite has captured a stunning image of "fallstreak holes" or "hole-punch clouds," scientifically known as cavum clouds.

Science & Energy

Satellite Spots Circular Holes in Clouds Over Florida

By Victor Tangermann

During a Lufthansa flight from Bangkok to Munich, a 63-year-old passenger died after losing "liters of blood" — a horrifying scene.

Travelers Horrified as Fellow Plane Passenger Starts Spewing Blood

By Victor Tangermann

A group of travelers attempting to turn back the clock to ring in the new year twice got a rude awakening due to flight delays.

Advanced Transport

Partiers Attempt to Celebrate New Year’s Twice With Flight Between Time Zones, Accidentally Land in Wrong Year

By Victor Tangermann

The FAA has cleared Google cofounder Sergey Brin's 400-foot airship, dubbed the Pathfinder 1, for test flights in California.

Google Cofounder’s Airship Cleared for Flight

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We tracked down one of the diarrhea plane's unlucky passengers, who confirmed that the defecation disaster was indeed extensive.

Advanced Transport

Passenger on Ill-Fated Diarrhea Plane Says Flight Attendants Were Forced to Craft “Makeshift Biohazard Suits”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An untouched and new Boeing 747 passenger jet, which was meant to be heavily modified to fly wealthy Saudi royalty around the world, has been scrapped.

Advanced Transport

Luxury Boeing 747 Scrapped After Just 16 Flights

By Victor Tangermann

A Swiss cybersecurity hacktivist has leaked the TSA's No-Fly List, a highly sensitive document, after discovering it on an unsecured server.

Advanced Transport

The TSA’s Entire No Fly List Appears to Have Just Leaked

By Victor Tangermann

JetBlue and Virgin Atlantic just inked multi-year contracts with a sustainable startup called Air Company, which turns recaptured CO2 into usable jet fuel.

Advanced Transport

JetBlue, Virgin Strike Deal to Buy Jet Fuel Made From Recaptured CO2

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's pretty difficult to justify opting for a 17-minute trip on a private jet over a 45-minute car ride — but that's exactly what Kylie Jenner just did.

Kardashian Slammed for 17-Minute Private Jet Flight to Beat Traffic

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As of 2024, Air New Zelaand will be offering access to six full bunk beds to its Economy class passengers.

Advanced Transport

Airline Announces Plans to Add Spacious Bunk Beds to Economy Class

By Victor Tangermann

It's definitely not a bird, but it is sort of a plane — it's the non-existent but admittedly very cool Sky Cruise, a fantastical nuclear-powered sky hotel.

We’re in Awe of this Absolutely Deranged “Nuclear-Powered Sky Hotel”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Economy travel may just get worse. Meet the Chaise Lounge Airplane Seats, a bunk-like, double-decker situation that, well, looks like an utter nightmare.

Advanced Transport

The Future of Air Travel Is Apparently the Final Circle of Hell

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Two studies say its safe to fly during the coronavirus pandemic. Reports out of Europe paint a strikingly different picture.

Flying Is Safe From COVID, Says Study Funded by Airline Group

By Victor Tangermann

In a Thursday emergency air worthiness directive, the FAA ordered the inspections of 2,000 Boeing 737 airplanes due to corrosion in their engines.

Advanced Transport

FAA Warns That After Pandemic, Long-Grounded Jets Could Experience Engine Failure

By Victor Tangermann

A new prototype device uses microwaves to generate plasma, showing howfuture jet engines could propel planes using just air and electricity.

Advanced Transport

Scientists Create Jet Engine Powered by Only Electricity

By Dan Robitzski