Alaska Airlines and its regional subsidiary, Horizon Air, requested a ground stop to all flights Sunday night because of a computer system outage.

Alaska Airlines has resumed flights after the failure of a critical piece of hardware forced the airline to ground all its planes for approximately three hours.

Passengers will fly in assigned seats on Southwest flights for the first time Jan. 27, ending 50-plus years of open seating.

DOT reviewed a United Airlines and JetBlue partnership after Spirit Airlines opposed the deal, with seven daily round-trip flights planned for JFK airport.

Southwest Airlines has announced its new assigned seating policy will begin on January 27, 2026. The change brings an end to Southwest’s well-known open seating policy where passengers could ...

There is a lot of speculation that one of the major airlines in the U.S. is cutting routes to hundreds of destinations next month.

A Sunday night system-wide Alaska Airlines ground stop due to an IT outage ended after about three hours, the carrier says.

Alaska Airlines has requested a ground stop for all its mainline aircraft, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) status page said on Sunday.

Alaska Airlines has warned of ongoing flight disruptions after it grounded its entire fleet after an IT outage on Sunday.

Southwest Airlines has officially begun selling assigned seats, though the open seating policy will remain in place on flights for a few more months.

Southwest Airlines announces a shift from open seating to assigned seats starting July 29 for flights booked from 2026, becoming the last major airline to end a pick-any-seat policy.

A tiny traveler caused major turbulence. Osaac Summer, an American Airlines flyer, responded to a viral video that showed him scolding a family who let their kid take his $300 seat without asking him.