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By  Niraj Chokshi The New York Times Spirit Airlines turned off the lights for good Saturday morning. The budget airline had lost billions of dollars in recent years, filing for bankruptcy in 2024 and 2025. Spirit hoped to emerge from its second bankruptcy this summer as a smaller company, but those plans fell apart as

A Boeing 737 MAX 8 operated by Southwest Airlines flies over Ritzville, Washington, on July 16, 2021. (Travis Ness/The Seattle Times/TNS) By Lauren Rosenblatt Seattle Times The Federal Aviation Administration should do more to address safety risks from an engine feature on Boeing’s 737 Max that has twice filled planes with smoke, a government watchdog

A looming jet fuel shortage in Europe and Asia could compound the Iran war’s impact on world travel within weeks if a fragile agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz collapses, making higher airfares and flight cancellations even more likely as the summer travel season approaches.

By RIO YAMAT The Associated Press Most travelers flying with United Airlines will pay $10 more to check their luggage beginning on Friday, as higher jet fuel costs driven by the war in the Middle East push another major U.S. carrier to increase fees. The first piece of checked luggage will now cost customers $45

By Christine Chung The New York Times More airlines are tacking extra fees and surcharges onto already rising ticket prices, hoping to recoup costs as the war in Iran causes fuel costs to surge. Delta Air Lines announced Tuesday it would start charging $10 more to check a bag on U.S. domestic flights, following similar

Travelers get their bags tagged by an Alaska Airlines employee at Seatte-Tacoma International Airport. The airline announced Thursday that it will raise checked baggage fees on North American flights. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times, 2023) By Angela Lim Seattle Times features reporter Alaska Airlines announced Thursday that it will raise checked baggage fees

By Mark Gongloff Syndicated columnist A couple of years ago, a reporter asked Blackpool FC’s manager at the time, Mick McCarthy, about his team’s terrible form, saying, “One win in 17. It can’t go on like this, can it?” The Irishman took a beat, smiled grimly and said, “It can.” U.S. air travelers know the

By Angela Lim Seattle Times features reporter The cost of jet fuel in the United States has ballooned due to the U.S.-Israel war with Iran and a resultant oil crisis. And though airfare prices have not skyrocketed yet for Seattle travelers, experts say airlines will soon be forced to raise prices to offset fuel costs.

By Lauren Rosenblatt Seattle Times business reporter By the fall of 2025, the MD-11 was already on its way out. FedEx and UPS, the two largest MD-11 operators at the time, had started to retire the aging McDonnell Douglas-built, Boeing-supported planes in favor of newer, more efficient jets. Then, in November, a UPS MD-11 crashed

By Kai Uyehara Seattle Times breaking news reporter Seattle-Tacoma International Airport will not be playing a video from President Donald Trump’s administration blaming Democrats for airport delays resulting from the ongoing partial government shutdown. This is the second time the airport has declined to play such a video in the last six months. During the