Fort Lauderdale is no stranger to long routes. In fact, the flight from LAX is one of the top seven longest flights out of the airport. Other destinations include Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, San Diego, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle.

Air New Zealand, which flies one of the longest regularly scheduled routes on the entire planet, took the top award, handed out by AirlineRatings.com. The Kiwi carrier serves Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, from New York’s JFK Airport — a distance of 8,828 miles. The trip takes 16 hours and 15 minutes.

A nascent recovery from Boeing’s troubles stalled in the fall when a 52-day Machinists union strike stopped almost all Boeing jet production in its Puget Sound assembly plants.

Emirates president Tim Clark told BI that Boeing workers were unfairly treated by previous management, which prioritized profits over quality.

Boeing delivered less than half the number of commercial aircraft to customers than its European rival in 2024, The American aerospace giant reported on Tuesday that it supplied 348 jetliners during the year.

Boeing's commercial aircraft order and delivery figures tumbled last year as the US company worked through a manufacturing crisis.

New York City is now connected via a non-stop flight to the Pacific-coast resort city of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco.

Alaska Airlines' merger with Hawaiian Airlines aims to enhance connectivity and drive earnings growth through strategic initiatives in 2025.

US carrier Hawaiian Airlines will deploy its Boeing 787 Dreamliner on its second-longest domestic route. The airline will use the Dreamliner to replace its older Airbus widebody on the route this year, with the first flights taking off in April.

Hawaiian Airlines, now part of the Alaska Air Group, currently operates the Ontario-Honolulu route with daily service using Airbus A321 aircraft. However, reservations are only open through June 12, signaling that Alaska Airlines will replace the carrier on the sector.

Hawaiian Airlines has begun its second round of merger-related layoffs, and on Thursday issued WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notices to 61 of its noncontract workforce based in Honolulu.

JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM / SEPT. 17 An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX aircraft passes a Hawaiian Airlines Airbus A-330 parked at its gate at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport.