CHICAGO — A momentary failure inside Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region rippled through airline reservation systems early Monday, leaving Chicago-based United Airlines passengers unable to complete routine online tasks such as check-in, seat selection and prepaid bag drop for several hours.
On the morning of October 16, 2025, United Airlines Flight UA1093 departed Denver International Airport bound for Los Angeles International Airport carrying 134 passengers and 6 crew members aboard a Boeing 737 MAX 8. What began as a routine flight quickly became an extraordinary aviation incident that would capture international attention and raise questions about the growing risks posed by objects in Earth's orbit.
CHICAGO — A half-hour technology outage in the small hours of Wednesday forced United Airlines to halt departures across the United States and Canada, unsettling red-eye passengers, triggering dozens of delays and cancellations, and reminding summer travelers that even short-lived tech hiccups can ripple coast to coast.
LOS ANGELES — Vacationers who rely on Spirit Airlines’ ultralow fares will want to check their itineraries twice this fall. The Miramar, Florida–based carrier has told employees it will cut its November 2024 flight schedule by 25 percent, the second deep reduction since the company exited bankruptcy on March 13.
LAS VEGAS — Budget flyers counting on neon-strip getaways or inexpensive hops to the coasts this winter will need to readjust their itineraries. Spirit Airlines, the bright-yellow emblem of U.S. ultra-low-cost travel, has quietly erased more than half of its planned Las Vegas departures for the fourth quarter of 2025.
Spirit Airlines’ once-ambitious domestic network is in full retreat. Multiple sources confirm the ultra-low-cost carrier is eliminating more than half of its winter flights to Las Vegas and withdrawing entirely from every Bay Area airport as part of an aggressive Chapter 11 restructuring plan.
The plant at the heart of the story fired up in 2016, turning waste oils and animal fats into what the industry calls sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF. It supplied millions of gallons annually to United Airlines and JetBlue Airways—until production ground to a halt in April when all 35 employees were laid off.
LOS ANGELES — Universal Studios Hollywood is already plotting next year’s screams. Halloween Horror Nights will return for the 2025 season on select evenings from Thursday, September 4, through Sunday, November 2, with an expanded slate of haunted houses, shows, and scare zones, according to a press release by Universal Studios Hollywood.
NEW YORK — Flying with a four-legged companion is rarely a walk in the park, but New York-based Bark Air believes it has found an answer. The dog-centric carrier, which began service in May 2024, says it has already flown more than 1,000 canines and now plans to spread its paws wider across the United States and Europe.
