United Airlines

(Newser) - More than a million airline flights on the 20 biggest carriers have been late so far this year— keeping the US airline industry on track for the worst year for delays on record, reports Reuters. The flight most often delayed in the month of July was a Delta route from...

(Newser) - United Airlines' frequent flier program may be worth more than the carrier itself, according to projections for a still-speculative sell-off. The program would be worth about $7.5 billion, a Bear Stearns analyst says; United makes $19.3 billion a year, but its overall value is only about $5.45...

(Newser) - The body of a middle-aged Asian man tucked into the wheel well of a United Airlines flight from Shanghai was found shortly after landing at San Francisco Airport yesterday. He is  likely to have died of exposure or asphyxiation during the 11-hour flight, when temperatures can plummet to -40 degrees,...

(Newser) - United flights around the globe sat on the tarmac for 2 hours this morning after a computer malfunction effectively shut down the world's second-biggest carrier. The midmorning glitch affected an unknown number of flights, Bloomberg reports, before techs traced the trouble to the systems that weigh planes, check their balance,...