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air travel

Since the inception of commercial air travel, the insides of airplane cabins have been associated with a higher likelihood of catching a cold or other spreadable disease. New research has sought out to see if scientific facts back up those sentiments.
Health
Study examines how diseases really spread during air travel
Arts, Culture & Media
Design for the Real World: Airline Logos
Airplane takeoff
Environment
Airlines embrace carbon reductions, but fear the Trump administration might get in their way
A laptop shows up on the screen of an X-ray security scanner.
Conflict
The US considers banning laptops on international flights
A British Airways passenger plane preparing to land at Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport in London
Economics
British Airways cancels all flights out of London after IT failure
Pictured here is Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park.
Science
Is ‘last-chance tourism’ good or bad for endangered places?
US flight to Cuba
Development
First commercial flight from the US lands in Cuba
Boeing 747
Science
How might global warming affect air travel?
Denver Airport Security Lines
Conflict
2-hour lines at the airport? Brutal – and a security risk, experts say
Melvyn Koh, at center, tries out Italian company Aviointeriors' aircraft "standing seat" which has 23 inches of legroom instead of the current economy class average of 30 inches.
Business
Airlines are running more full than at any time since they ferried troops during World War II
An aircraft takes off from Heathrow Airport in west London.
Technology
A computer glitch paralyzes London’s Heathrow Airport for hours
A US Coast Guard corpsman at Washington Dulles International Airport checks the temperature of a traveler from West Africa.
Health
Ebola-related precautions on flights from West Africa get praise from this Liberian
Economy class seats are pictured inside an Emirates Airbus A380.
Lifestyle
As air travelers fight over reclining their seats, seat designers offer hope
A departure board displays various cancellations at Ben Gurion International airport in Tel Aviv.
Conflict & Justice
Despite recent events in Ukraine and Israel, flying over hot spots is business as usual
2014. Britain's Inmarsat used a wave phenomenon discovered in the nineteenth century to analyse the seven pings its satellite picked up from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 to determine its final destination.The new findings led Malaysian Prime Minister Na
Environment
An oceanographer tells why it will be so tough to find missing Flight 370 in the Indian Ocean
Climate change activist Bill McKibben speaking in Waitsfield, Vermont in 2012.
Environment
To fight climate change, activist says Obama’s policy needs ‘to be as good as physics demands’
Global Politics
Thousands are on US terrorist watch lists, rightly or wrongly, and there’s nothing they can do about it