Today: September 21, 2024
Today: September 21, 2024

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Business|Economy

A strike by Boeing factory workers shows no signs of ending after its first week

Boeing has started rolling furloughs of nonunion employees as a week-old labor strike by 33,000 union machinists shows no signs of ending

A strike by Boeing factory workers shows no signs of ending after its first week
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Boeing CEO says the company will furlough employees soon to preserve cash during labor strike

Boeing’s CEO says the company will begin furloughing a large number of employees to save cash during a strike by union machinists

Boeing CEO says the company will furlough employees soon to preserve cash during labor strike
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The Biden administration is letting Alaska Airlines buy Hawaiian Air but with conditions

The Biden administration is letting Alaska Airlines buy Hawaiian Airlines

The Biden administration is letting Alaska Airlines buy Hawaiian Air but with conditions
Business|Economy

Boeing says it's considering temporary layoffs to save cash during the strike by machinists

Boeing says it’s considering temporary layoffs to save cash during the strike by machinists

Boeing says it's considering temporary layoffs to save cash during the strike by machinists
Business|Technology

United Airlines will offer free internet on flights using service from Elon Musk's SpaceX

United Airlines says it will offer free WiFi service on flights using the satellite-based Starlink service from Elon Musk’s SpaceX

United Airlines will offer free internet on flights using service from Elon Musk's SpaceX
Business|News

Boeing machinists vote to strike after rejecting pay increases of 25% over 4 years

Machinists at Boeing have voted to go on strike, another setback for the giant aircraft maker whose reputation and finances have been battered and now faces a shutdown in production of its best-selling airline planes

Boeing machinists vote to strike after rejecting pay increases of 25% over 4 years
Business|Finance|Stock Markets

Southwest Airlines shakes up its board under pressure from a big shareholder

Southwest Airlines will revamp its board and the chairman will retire next year, but it intends to stick with CEO Robert Jordan

Southwest Airlines shakes up its board under pressure from a big shareholder
News|Technology|Travel

Battery-powered devices are overheating more often on planes and raising alarm

Battery-powered devices are overheating more often on planes, and that is raising safety concerns because of the fire danger

Battery-powered devices are overheating more often on planes and raising alarm
Business|News

Boeing says it has a deal to avoid a strike by more than 30,000 machinists

Boeing has a tentative agreement with its largest union on a new contract for factory workers that could avoid a threatened strike

Boeing says it has a deal to avoid a strike by more than 30,000 machinists
Business|Technology

STORY REMOVED: US--Boeing-Strike Vote

Please disregard US--Boeing-Strike Vote, published on Sep

STORY REMOVED: US--Boeing-Strike Vote
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US government orders big US airlines to explain their frequent-flyer programs

The Biden administration is looking into airline frequent-flyer programs and whether they devalue points that consumers have earned

US government orders big US airlines to explain their frequent-flyer programs
Lifestyle|Travel

Travelers are getting a head start on the long Labor Day weekend

Airports, highways, beaches and theme parks are expected to be packed across the U.S. this Labor Day weekend as a lot Americans mark the unofficial end of summer the same way they celebrated the season’s unofficial start: by traveling

Travelers are getting a head start on the long Labor Day weekend
News|Science|Technology

NASA decision against using a Boeing capsule to bring astronauts back adds to company's problems

NASA says it won't use Boeing's Starliner capsule to bring two stranded astronauts back to Earth

NASA decision against using a Boeing capsule to bring astronauts back adds to company's problems
Business|Technology

A top Delta executive is leaving weeks after the airline's slow response to tech outage

A high-ranking Delta Air Lines executive is leaving the company, just a few weeks after Delta canceled thousands of flights and struggled to recover from a technology outage

A top Delta executive is leaving weeks after the airline's slow response to tech outage
Business|Technology

Boeing's new CEO visits factory that makes the 737 Max, including jet that lost door plug in flight

Boeing‘s new CEO is on the job and visiting a key factory near Seattle

Boeing's new CEO visits factory that makes the 737 Max, including jet that lost door plug in flight
Business|News|Technology

FAA has doubled its enforcement cases against Boeing since a door plug blew off a 737 Max

Federal Aviation Administration officials say the agency has doubled its number of enforcement cases against Boeing since a door plug blew off a 737 Max in midflight

FAA has doubled its enforcement cases against Boeing since a door plug blew off a 737 Max
News|Technology

Hearing seeks insight into blowout on a Boeing jet that pilots said threw the flight into 'chaos'

Boeing factory workers say they were pressured to work too fast and asked to perform jobs that they weren’t qualified for, including opening and closing the door plug that later blew off an Alaska Airlines jet

Hearing seeks insight into blowout on a Boeing jet that pilots said threw the flight into 'chaos'
Crime|News

Lawyers for families of passengers killed in 737 Max crashes ask court to block Boeing plea deal

Families of some of the people killed in Boeing Max crashes are asking a judge to reject a plea agreement that the aircraft maker struck with the prosecutors

Lawyers for families of passengers killed in 737 Max crashes ask court to block Boeing plea deal
Business|Economy

Boeing names its next CEO while posting a quarterly loss of more than $1.4 billion

Boeing has a new chief executive

Boeing names its next CEO while posting a quarterly loss of more than $1.4 billion
Business|Travel

Spirit Airlines is going upscale. In a break from its history, it will offer fares with extra perks

Spirit Airlines is about to roll out tickets that include perks like free snacks and no fee for checking a bag

Spirit Airlines is going upscale. In a break from its history, it will offer fares with extra perks
Business|Travel

Southwest Airlines plans to start assigning seats, breaking with a 50-year tradition

Southwest Airlines plans to drop the open-boarding system it has used for more than 50 years and will start assigning passengers to seats, just like all the other big airlines

Southwest Airlines plans to start assigning seats, breaking with a 50-year tradition
Crime|News

US files details of Boeing’s plea deal related to plane crashes. It's in the hands of a judge now

The Justice Department has filed an agreement in which Boeing will plead guilty to a fraud charge for misleading regulators who approved the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed, killing 346 people

US files details of Boeing’s plea deal related to plane crashes. It's in the hands of a judge now
Business|Technology

Delta CEO, in Paris for the Olympics, says outage-related cancellations should end Thursday

The chief executive of Delta Air Lines expects flight cancellations and delays that resulted from a global technology breakdown last week to be resolved by Thursday

Delta CEO, in Paris for the Olympics, says outage-related cancellations should end Thursday
Business|Technology

Most airlines except one are recovering from the CrowdStrike tech outage. The feds have noticed

Delta Air Lines is struggling for a fourth straight day to recover from the tech outage, even as other airlines are returning to nearly normal levels of service

Most airlines except one are recovering from the CrowdStrike tech outage. The feds have noticed
Technology|Travel

Your flight was canceled by the technology outage. What do you do next?

Thousands of flights have been canceled after a worldwide internet outage hit many leading airlines, forcing passengers to scramble to save their vacations and other trips

Your flight was canceled by the technology outage. What do you do next?

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