If I cannot get an upgrade — and I cannot, as I have no status, in any aspect of my life — I would like us to suffer more equally when we travel.

Most U.S. travelers will be driving to their destinations for the long weekend, kicking off what is expected to be a busy summer travel season.

The pilot, Luis González-Pardo, was one of the defendants in the indictment that included former Cuban President Raúl Castro.

China’s Ministry of Commerce said Saturday that the countries had struck a preliminary agreement to reduce some tariffs, seemingly contradicting statements by President Trump

Mr. Castro, Cuba’s former president, could soon face charges in the 1996 killings of four volunteer airmen who were members of a humanitarian group that searched for migrants at sea.

The president left Beijing following a summit with China, during which the two countries sought to stabilize their economic and political relations.

Plus, the Friday news quiz.

The deal, if it materializes, would be a major win for Boeing, which has lost ground to Airbus in one of the world’s largest aviation markets.

After two stints in bankruptcy, the low-cost airline shut down early Saturday. Here’s what travelers should know about rebooking and refunds.

Spirit once upended the industry by offering very low fares but was in its second bankruptcy in two years after years of struggle.

The low-fare airline, which has struggled for years, had been trying to secure a $500 million lifeline from the Trump administration.

In just eight weeks, much of the global economy has been knocked sideways. America has mostly been spared from the tumult.

Facing sky-high fuel costs linked to the war in Iran, airlines are cutting routes and raising prices. European vacations are looking a lot less affordable.

The report focuses on the lack of transponders in the fire trucks, which investigators suggested could have allowed an automatic warning system to alert the controller of an imminent collision.

A high-energy laser weapon and a power struggle between federal agencies brought a night of hassles to the city.

An interagency dispute over the use of high-energy lasers near airports led the Federal Aviation Administration to temporarily close the airspace twice in Texas this year.

Airlines used to give away most of their nicest seats, but they have increasingly found ways to persuade people to pay a lot for them.

Sightings of drones around Fort McNair, the Army base where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio live, have prompted consideration of deploying the new technology.

The accident at LaGuardia has raised questions about whether the minimum standard of two air traffic controllers on overnight shifts is sufficient.

How a cascade of seemingly minor events led to the worst runway disaster at LaGuardia Airport in decades.

After a fatal collision between an Air Canada jet and a fire truck on a runway, attention has focused on why the truck didn’t heed frantic calls to stop.

Michael Rousseau said he was “deeply saddened” that his ​inability to speak French had diverted attention from the families’ grief.

Officials on Thursday said the airport in New York was now fully operational. One of its two runways had been closed since Sunday, when a jet hit a truck, killing two pilots.

Regulators, pilots and others in aviation have worried about the kind of runway accident that happened at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday.

With lines stretching for hours and passengers missing flights, fliers are desperate to ease the wait at security. There are some steps you can take, but no guarantees.

The lack of French in Michael Rousseau’s speech about the deadly collision at LaGuardia Airport reignited a debate over linguistic inclusivity in Canada.

Kathryn Garcia, who began leading the agency in February, consoled two injured firefighters and dealt with delays at the three big airports serving New York City.

In the early stages of the investigation into the Air Canada Express crash on Sunday night, a hazy timeline has begun to emerge.

The pilots were identified as Antoine Forest, 30, and Mackenzie Gunther. They were the only two fatalities in the plane’s collision with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport.

Two controllers were said to be working at LaGuardia Airport’s control center at the time of the crash that killed two pilots, and one had been dealing with an odor on a United Airlines plane.