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International airlines are all-in on fancy first-class seats, even as US carriers focus only on business for long-haul flights
First class is largely filled with corporate customers, but many deep-pocket individuals are willin…
Taylor Rains
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The 5 best and 5 worst seats on a plane, according to a flight attendant with 10 years of experience
Planes have good seats and bad seats, but many don't realize how their seat's proximity to the bath…
Beth Windsor
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Southwest's new premium seats come with a catch for everyone else
Southwest Airlines Boeing 737s will get new premium seating with extra legroom, but regular seats o…
Taylor Rains,Benjamin Zhang
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The middle seat on an airplane is severely underrated
The longstanding debate over window versus aisle seats misses the benefits of what's in between: th…
Dan DeFrancesco
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I take dozens of flights a year as an airline reporter. I always go for the aisle seat — even if it costs extra money
Now that I'm only a year away from 30 with a little more fun money and desire for comfort, I've got…
Taylor Rains
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Cathay Pacific banned two customers after they got into a row over a reclining seat
A couple on a Cathay Pacific flight to London heckled a woman in front who declined to straighten h…
Mia Jankowicz
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If you want an aisle or window seat on a flight, please pay for it
The cash-strapped aviation industry has been looking at ways to increase revenues from seat booking…
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An airline's first-class seats are too heavy. Its planes now need even more weight to fix it.
Swiss told BI the best way to counteract this center-of-gravity issue is to add even more weight to…
Taylor Rains
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A top turbulence scientist explains how he stays calm on bumpy flights
Turbulence is getting worse, scientist Paul Williams has found. But he has tips for coping with it …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Passengers on a new 7-hour budget flight won't even get free coffee and will have to make their own fun, CEO says
With its new seven-hour route between the UK and Saudi Arabia, Wizz Air is hoping passengers will "…
Tom Carter
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I was a flight attendant for 2 years. Here are the answers to 10 questions passengers always ask.
After two years on planes, I heard repeat questions from everyone who flies. From how we take break…
Arina Bloom
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NASA astronauts describe flight aboard Boeing's glitching, leaking Starliner spaceship
Boeing's Starliner got two NASA astronauts to the space station despite failures. Now they're waiti…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The first ultra-low-cost airline using the Airbus A321XLR hopes passengers will choose to 'suffer the pain' of no-frills 7-hour flights
Ultra-low-cost carrier Wizz Air announced its first A321XLR route, betting passengers won't mind lo…
Pete Syme
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Southwest ditching its unassigned seat policy shows how budget airlines' business models are getting upended
Low-budget airlines are rethinking their business models as they face an uphill battle for not foll…
Dan DeFrancesco
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Southwest says 80% of its customers didn't like the unassigned-seating policy. But I will miss it.
Southwest Airlines said it was doing away with its open-seating policy because customers don't like…
Kelsey Vlamis
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My husband and I flew 15 hours in economy. Bidding on a 'bubble' seat made the long flight bearable.
Our 15 hours flying in economy was better because we bid on a "bubble" seat to get more space — a f…
Riana Ang-Canning
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I sat in the front and back of economy for a round-trip, long-haul flight. I'm still partial to the back.
Business Insider's author sat at the front and back of economy class on recent 10-hour flights. Ult…
Monica Humphries
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What you should do if a fellow passenger on a plane insists you switch seats, according to travel experts
There's a heated discussion on social media about when and when not to switch seats with fellow pas…
Lindsay Dodgson
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Airplane passenger fined for urinating in a cup and then spilling it on a flight attendant, says report
A passenger a New Zealand Air flight from Auckland to Sydney was fined for urinating in a cup.
Cameron Manley
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The world's busiest international flight routes of 2023
Routes between hotspots in Asia dominated the list, which was calculated based on capacity.