United Airlines is to operate a new, year-round, daily nonstop service between Dublin Airport and its hub at San Francisco from next summer.

John Hearne outlines the main compensations for EU air passengers whose flights are cancelled, delayed or impacted by other disruptions

A transatlantic flight made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport early today after a passenger was reported to have suffered a stroke.

United Airlines flight UA-961 was travelling from Frankfurt, Germany to Newark in the US when the 71-year-old woman began to suffer breathing difficulties.

A holiday jet has made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport this evening after the crew reported smoke in the cockpit over the Atlantic.

A Canada-bound flight was forced to turn over the North Atlantic and divert to Shannon Airport last night after a passenger was reported to have fallen ill.

Nine Irish flight routes have been named among the most disrupted flights in Europe — but the UK and Italy have the worst air record. The new study of global flight data through 2018 by AirHelp ranks the 50 most disrupted flight paths in Europe.

A transatlantic flight has diverted to Shannon Airport after a woman was reported to be experiencing contractions.

A Caribbean-bound holiday flight diverted to Shannon Airport this morning after a passenger fell ill more than 700 kilometres away over France.

A 25-year-old Irish man is due in court in Sydney today over a disturbance on a US flight.

Dublin airport has canceled a number of flights due to the weather.

A 21-year-old Swedish student stopped the deportation of a man to Afghanistan by boarding his flight and refusing to sit down until he was let off the plane.

A passenger whose Ryanair flight from Dublin was forced into an emergency landing has described the incident as something out of her worst nightmares.

Twin brothers Neil and Paul Casey, and friend Gavin McCormack were flying home to Dublin from Barcelona on Wednesday night when they decided to cheer up passengers.

A transatlantic flight was diverted to Shannon Airport following an apparent bomb threat.

It was a case of 'Where are we?' instead of 'Are we there yet?' for Ryanair passengers last night flying from Dublin as their flight to Budapest instead landed in Vienna.

Fifty years ago today, 61 people were killed when an Aer Lingus plane crashed on a flight from Cork to London, and left many with questions on what caused the tragedy, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

Passenger baggage loaded into the incorrect hold of an Aer Lingus plane travelling between Dublin and France could have resulted in serious loss of control, air accident investigators have warned.

An Air France flight from Paris to Los Angeles has made an emergency landing after suffering 'serious damage' to one of its engines.

An Aer Lingus flight was forced to divert to Dublin Airport soon after take-off earlier today.

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My three sisters and I have just arrived at our Airbnb apartment in Lisbon and bagsied bedrooms, with disappointing results; I got the box room and have taken my disappointment off to the toilet.

Deep vein thrombosis can affect all ages, says Lucy Maddox.    

A passenger jet has diverted to Shannon Airport after experiencing an issue with one of its engines over the Atlantic.

There are certain things airlines are obliged to offer travellers.

The experience of being physically removed from a United Airlines flight by security staff was worse than fleeing Vietnam following the fall of Saigon in 1975, Mr Dao relayed to his lawyer.

A passenger dragged from a United Express flight suffered a "significant" concussion and broken nose, and he lost two front teeth, one of his lawyers has said.

United Airlines will compensate all the passengers who were on a plane when a man was dragged off by airport officers in Chicago.

An Australian woman has suffered burns to her face after her battery-operated headphones exploded during a flight from Beijing to Melbourne, Australian air safety investigators said.

A man died on board a transatlantic jet which landed at Shannon Airport yesterday.

Two men say they were removed from a JetBlue flight after one "expressed displeasure" about flying with Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner.

A holiday flight has turned around over the Atlantic and diverted to Cork Airport with an ill passenger.

Please turn off your mobile phones and ensure your duck is in an upright position.

An overheated Samsung device created smoke that caused a plane to be evacuated at Louisville International Airport, an official has said.

A new direct flight from Bradley International Airport to Dublin has prompted WWLP-22News to produce a short video report from our fair capital.

An Irish adventurer dubbed the 'lawnmower man' has become the first to fly from Ireland to Africa by paramotor writes Eoin English.

An easyJet flight from London Gatwick to Belfast was delayed by over an hour after two members of the cabin crew were removed from the plane following a row.

Data recovered from a home flight simulator owned by the captain of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 showed that someone had used the device to plot a course to the southern Indian Ocean — where the missing jet is believed to have crashed, Australian officials have said.

An El Al Israel Airlines flight from New York that was escorted by military jets in Europe following a bomb threat has landed safely in Israel.

Wreckage from the EgyptAir flight which crashed in May shows "signs of damage because of high temperature" and a flight data recorder indicated there was smoke on board, investigators said.

A black box recording from crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 confirms smoke on board, Egyptian investigators have said.

An experimental solar-powered plane has landed in Spain, completing an unprecedented, three-day flight across the Atlantic in the latest leg of its globe-circling journey.

Initial attempts to download information from the flight data and voice recorders of an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean last month have been unsuccessful, a US official said.

Ain't nothin' like flying on the wings of love!

The families of two Yorkshire men feared dead when their microlight plunged into the sea have thanked all those involved in the on-going search for their bodies.

As planes packed with Irish fans head to France, one Ryanair flight had a special guest.

An EgyptAir plane that made an emergency landing in Uzbekistan following a bomb threat resumed its flight and has landed in Beijing, Egyptian officials said.