Air traffic control chaos affecting 700,000 passengers was made worse when an engineer couldn't log in remotely

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CRAWLEY, ENGLAND - AUGUST 28: People wait near check-in desks at Gatwick Airport on August 28, 2023 in Crawley, United Kingdom.
Passengers at London Gatwick Airport on the day of the incident in August 2023.

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I booked a Frontier flight to save money, but it backfired. I spent hundreds to switch airlines during my layover.

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I had a disastrous layover at Denver International Airport.

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A Ryanair Boeing 737's tires burst on landing, leaving a 500-yard gouge in the runway at one of Italy's busiest airports

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Ryanair Boeing 737 MAX 8 as seen during taxiing, take off and flying phase in Eindhoven Airport EIN.
A Ryanair Boeing 737 Max 8.

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Japan's 2nd-busiest airport was put on lockdown after a pair of scissors went missing from a store, where they were later found again

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Passengers and visitors are seen at New Chitose Airport in Chitose, Hokkaido, northern Japan November 24, 2016.
New Chitose Airport.

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Fox's Laura Ingraham says she got stuck on a plane for 8 hours, forcing her to call into her own show to say why she couldn't make it

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Laura Ingraham

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See inside American Airlines' massive flight operations center, where it dispatches 6,000 flights every day

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A woman sitting in the bridge of the AA IOC.
American Airlines manages its planes and crewmembers from its storm-withstanding operations center in Dallas/Fort Worth, which supports some 500,000 customers per day.

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Torrential rain wreaked havoc at Dubai's airport, with video showing a plane battling across a flooded runway

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Passengers wait for their flights at the Dubai International Airport in Dubai on April 17, 2024.
Passengers wait for their flights at the Dubai International Airport on April 17.

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A man opened a plane's emergency exit and walked onto its wing after his flight was delayed on the tarmac for 4 hours. His fellow passengers are now defending him: 'He saved our lives'

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Aeromexico.

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Boeing's embarrassing 737 Max disaster could hit entire US economy, aviation expert says

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A Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft.

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Southwest canceled hundreds of flights over Christmas weekend

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Southwest passenger checking in.
Southwest Airlines canceled more than 400 flights during the holiday weekend due to dense fog at Chicago Midway Airport.

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