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.

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.

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.

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

Boeing delivered 348 aircraft last year — less than half Airbus managed and the lowest since the pandemic. The new CEO has a mountain to climb.

It gets worse. A protracted dispute over a new labor contract led to strikes and the shutdown of production lines in the autumn, notably on the 737 MAX. The result is that Boeing got nowhere near its aim of achieving an initial rate of 38 deliveries a month for the 737 MAX.

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.

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

This week, announced two summer seasonal routes from Anchorage, flying to Detroit and Sacramento. In addition, the airline will resume flights between Fairbanks and Portland. With the updated schedule,

Alaska Airlines Vice President of Loyalty, Alliances, and Sales, Brett Catlin, on the airline's upcoming routes to Tokyo and Seoul, it's rollout of premium products and more.

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 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.