Police officers physically removed a woman from a Southwest Airlines plane before it took off from Baltimore.

A doctor who was dragged off a United flight after he refused to give up his seat to crew members has reached a settlement with the airline for an undisclosed amount.

A doctor who was dragged off a United flight after he refused to give up his seat to crew members has reached a settlement with the airline for undisclosed amount.

United Airlines has said six flights were cancelled and 200 more were delayed because of a computer problem which grounded all of its US domestic flights for more than two hours on Sunday.

United Airlines is to axe 1,250 jobs and close three reservation centres as part of cost-cutting efforts aimed at saving the troubled US carrier about $100m (€102.7m) a year.