air travel

Congress told the Transportation Security Administration and airlines in 2018 to improve air travel for people with disabilities. But TSA data and stories from flyers suggest little has improved.

Hundreds of Southwest Airlines flights are either canceled or delayed on Monday, after a weekend of disruptions that the carrier has blamed on air traffic control issues and weather conditions.

President Biden says, "If you break the rules, be prepared to pay." He calls the harassment aimed at airline employees over masks "wrong" and "ugly."

Nearly 4,000 incidents of disruptive behavior have been logged on planes this year, according to the FAA.

The airline is expected to cancel about 50% of its flights nationwide from Friday and into next week, continuing a weeklong trend of mass cancellations, CEO Ted Christie told reporters.

Citing "incredibly compelling" evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective, United CEO Scott Kirby announced the policy change on Friday. It will affect the carrier's 67,000 U.S. employees.

The airlines cited weather and staffing challenges. The industry has had trouble meeting the demand as people are ready to travel again.

Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport reported 74 flight cancellations Monday, 68 of which were from Spirit Airlines, according to flight tracking service FlightAware.com. On Sunday, Spirit accounted for 34 of 37 cancellations at the airport.

American Airlines canceled its flights between Miami International Airport and Haiti’s Port-au-Prince-Toussaint Louverture International Airport from Aug. 17 to Sept. 8 due to an aircraft delivery delay from Boeing, the company announced this week. One daily flight between Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Port-au-Prince on American will remain during that time.

Southwest Airlines flights were delayed across the country Monday night because of a problem with the company's weather data provider. Flights were again delayed on Tuesday.

The new policy is expected to allow EU members to admit travelers from the U.S. and other countries where people have received vaccines that are authorized in the EU.

Newly discovered variants of COVID-19 in South Africa and Brazil could make the virus more infectious and may decrease the efficacy of vaccines.