All news on the topic: Planes

You might think you're innocently making yourself comfortable during your flight, but actually there's a gross reason why you should keep your shoes on your feet, according to an expert

The family, made up of mum, dad and baby daughter, were told to leave the flight and were escorted off without their luggage

A passenger has expressed their fury after they got onto a Southwest flight and saw a family attempting to reserve a number of additional seats with their belongings

A woman was praised for her bold move as she sat in a plane seat that an 'entitled' passenger was trying to hog - and she barely responded when they swore at her

Passengers aboard a Swiss International Air Lines flight to Bilbao, Spain from Zurich, Switzerland turned up in the chocolate loving country to discover their bags were missing

A travel expert has shared some of the truth behind common aviation myths - including why you may want to ask for salt when you get an in-flight meal

Passengers onboard a Delta Airlines flight were told to be ‘grateful’ their plane didn’t crash after 'mechanical issue' forced them to land on a Portuguese island

A woman was left fed up when she was repeatedly kicked, and had her hair touched, throughout a flight - and when she told the mum of the children, she wasn't too fussed

The alleged incident is said to have happened on an American Airlines flight 1441 which was travelling from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Boston, Massachusetts, on September 2 at around 10am

A woman was left dumbfounded when her boyfriend of five years refused to pay for her 13-year-old son to sit in business class with them saying he wouldn't 'appreciate' it

Stephen Jones, a Vietnam war veteran, was flying back to Adelaide, Australia with his wife when a member of Qantas staff asked him to leave his seat and move to economy

Otavio Augusto Munhoz da Silva, 38, had been in another plane crash last year which left him deep in the middle of the Amazon rainforest and he had to walk for 13 days to reach safety

Delta airlines has been ranked the top airline in the US despite a recent incident which saw a plane heading from Atlanta, Georgia, to Barcelona having to turn around after a passenger suffered diarrhoea "all through the plane"

Delta flight 194 from Atlanta, Georgia, to Barcelona was forced to turn around just two hours into the eight hour flight after a passenger suffered severe diarrhoea while on board

The glitch resulted in National Air Traffic Services being unable to automatically process flight plans for several hours on August 28, a bank holiday Monday and a peak period for air travel

A major outage in United Airlines' systems affecting all airports where the airline operates has led to a nationwide ground stop of all flights with scores of travellers waiting for an update

One Delta Airlines passenger reported seeing liquid poo 'dribbling' along the aisles and flight attendants tried masking the smell with vanilla disinfectant but it still smelled 'horrible'

Celebrity plane pilot Jimmy Nicholson shared a 'water bottle trick' with his fans, while he was sitting through some of the 'worst turbulence' he's ever felt - and explained why it's nothing to worry about

Haldon Aerodrome in Devon was one of the first of its kind in the country luring throngs of plane spotters and was even visited by royalty - now all that exists is a flat piece of land and a small plaque

A California couple were left baffled when a massive slice of ice the size of a bowling ball suddenly crashed through their roof with the sound of 'a cannon shot'

A dad left plane passengers baffled when he asked if the pilot could 'fly around a bit' before landing because his 'boisterous' child refused to settle down in his seat

'Parents travelling with children are the most annoyingly entitled people on earth'

It's considered bad manners to go barefoot on a long-haul flight as you need to be considerate of those around you. But that hasn't stopped one man from doing so - and the video's gone viral

The Eurofighter Typhoon, which is based at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, was tracked by FlightRadar over Cambridgeshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire on Wednesday

Joey Dija stressed the amount of luggage she and family chooses to take "doesn't harm anyone" after facing a backlash following her trip to Los Angeles, California