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Employees face a Wednesday deadline whether to participate in a voluntary incentive program to leave the airline.

With fewer seats to sell, passengers may face higher plane fares, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which opposes mandating social distancing measures that would leave ‘middle seats’ empty

The carrier has struggled to secure financing for 17 jets it had expected Boeing to deliver.

2,250 pilots are at risk of furlough this year at United

JetBlue announced Thursday that it would be moving its Long Beach service to LAX starting in October.

Private jet companies continue to see demand as more people seek safer air travel during the coronavirus pandemic.

Deliveries fell about half from the same period last year.

The mayhem aboard the Ruili Airlines Boeing 737 erupted 30 minutes after it took off Tuesday from Xi'an for a domestic flight to Kunming when the electrically heated windscreen began to spark and then suddenly cracked.

Here are the airlines that are resuming alcohol service on flights despite coronavirus.

The largest U.S. air carriers have all signed letters of intent on federal loans to help them weather the novel coronavirus, with United Airlines warning employees on Tuesday that a surge in outbreaks was hitting bookings, threatening a travel rebound and jobs.

Five additional U.S. air carriers - Alaska Airlines, Delta Air Lines, JetBlue Airways, United Airlines and Southwest Airlines - plan to seek federal loans amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, the U.S. Department of Treasury said on Tuesday.

United Airlines told employees to prepare to receive notifications of potential furloughs under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, known as the WARN Act, as soon as this week.

But despite the recent uptick in air travel, the industry has yet to see numbers increase to where they were a year prior, an indication that the industry is still reeling from the pandemic. 

A Spirit Airlines passenger was removed from a flight from LaGuardia airport to Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Friday for refusing to wear a mask. 

The end for the program has been hanging in the air for years amid falling orders and pricing pressure.

About 15 million Americans are expected to travel by plane this summer.

Boeing is moving forward with plans to cut about 10 percent of its workforce.

Boeing Co 's communications chief Niel Golightly abruptly resigned on Thursday, following an employee's complaint over an article the former U.S. military pilot wrote 33 years ago arguing women should not serve in combat.

The U.S. aviation sector received a $32 billion bailout to cover its payrolls.

The company will reduce its international and transcontinental crew to the minimum required by the Federal Aviation Administration, plus one flight attendant.