Southwest Airlines is the first U.S. carrier to introduce the new security device. Here's what passengers should expect.

Southwest Airlines debuted its first plane with a secondary cockpit barrier on Friday, Aug. 29. The new safety feature ...

The government requires 1,500 hours of flight time before serving as first officer as an airliner. Some pilots and industry experts say the rule is excessive—and doesn’t actually make flying safer.

The flight marks the beginning of the rollout of the safety feature across the new U.S. commercial airline fleet.

Almost 25 years after 9/11, there are still major security risks on airplanes without secondary cockpit barriers. That’s the ...

At the end of the day, every pilot must have a certain set of certificates and ratings to operate as an airline pilot. In the ...

The world’s largest airline pilot union suggested airmen and women stop using terms purportedly offensive to women and LGBTQ individuals, calling out terms like “cockpit” as non-inclusive. Air Line ...

While napping is not forbidden, the German trade union calls upon airlines to reassess if pilots are suffering from fatigue ...

The transcript was the first public disclosure of the pilots' conversations during the ill-fated flight, which killed 49 people in the deadliest American aviation disaster in five years. The ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- She's a seasoned flyer and a veteran flight attendant for a major airline, so Celeste Abbatematteo has seen it all, but what happened to her a few weeks ago has left her a bit ...

South Florida-based Spirit Airlines intends to cut capacity by 25% and is likely to reduce staff as management develops a ...