LOS ANGELES—Air travelers across the country, including Southern California, were met by extensive flight delays and cancellations June 27 due to severe weather, tornadoes, and heat waves. By late morning Tuesday, there were 160 delays of flights either in or out of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), along with 30 cancellations, according to the flight-tracking…

WestJet cancelled more than 100 flights on Thursday after talks with the pilots’ union hit a “critical impasse,” throwing travel plans into turmoil for thousands of passengers ahead of the May long weekend. Some 1,800 pilots at the carrier and its Swoop subsidiary are poised to walk off the job as of 3 a.m. MT…

Today’s giant airlines—as well as many smaller ones—make their business on connections. The pervasive “hub and spoke” route system means you can fly from almost anywhere in the U.S. to almost anywhere else with one stop-and-connection at a hub. My home airport, Medford, Oregon, is typical. If I want to fly to, say, New York,…

Sunwing has issued an apology to passengers left stranded after winter storms upended operations but says “most of our customers enjoyed their holidays with minimal disruption.” In a joint statement on Thursday, Sunwing Travel Group CEO Stephen Hunter and Sunwing Airlines president Len Corrado said they are “incredibly sorry for letting our customers down.” “We…

A surge in flight cancellations throughout the United States is mounting, as a major winter storm moves in before the Christmas holiday weekend. As of 3:20 p.m. ET on Dec. 23, the total number of cancellations within, into, or out of the United States on Friday hit 4,679, while delays reached 6,675 on Friday, according…

A surge in flight cancellations throughout the United States is mounting, as a major winter storm moves in before the Christmas holiday weekend. The massive cold front is expected to sweep across the country over the weekend, with several airlines planning delays and cancellations. This weekend is one of the busiest travel times for the…

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) on Nov. 14 announced “historic enforcement actions” against six airlines that have collectively been fined more than half a billion dollars for passengers who were owed a refund because of flight cancellations or changes. Frontier, Aeromexico, Air India, TAP Portugal, El Al, and Avianca were required to pay about…

Flight cancellations continued today after WestJet’s system-wide outage on Sunday led to halted flights, long customer service wait times and other disruptions. The Calgary-based airline says another 31 flights are cancelled today due to the effects of the system outage combined with winter weather affecting Alberta and parts of Western Canada. Over the weekend, a…

DALLAS—Travelers flying home from July Fourth getaways faced flight delays Monday, but airlines were canceling fewer flights than in the days leading up to the holiday weekend. Airlines had canceled more than 2,200 U.S. flights, and another 23,000 were delayed, since holiday weekend travel picked up on Thursday. Airports were packed. More than 9 million…

Air Canada has cancelled roughly 10 percent of flights at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in the first week of June, due to increased passenger inflows, staff shortages, and security delays caused by COVID-19 restrictions. Air Canada’s more than 350 flight cancellations from June 1 to June 7 were split between arrivals and departures, The Globe…