Two United Airlines passengers are being compensated after a woman said that her fiancé was "bumped" to an economy seat so "a part of the crew could sit in first class instead."

You've probably heard that you're far more likely to die in a car accident than you are in a plane crash — and that's a fact. According to the National Safety Council, there were 39,107 car crash deaths in the United States in 2019. That same year, there were 257 deaths from commercial plane crashes around the world. In other words, the odds are very low that you'll die in a plane crash.

Many travelers are familiar with private jets, but what about flying semi-private? This is a relatively new type of travel that's rapidly growing in popularity. Straddling the line between private jets and commercial flights, semi-private flights provide passengers with a luxurious and convenient service. Here, everything you need to know about semi-private air travel.

On an otherwise ordinary Wednesday in January, the skies above the United States became eerily quiet. Between 7:15 and 9:07 a.m on January 11th, planes stopped taking off from most US runways after a major computer outage prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to issue its first nationwide ground stop since Sept. 11, 2001.

Flying in an airplane is incredibly safe despite what our anxieties and fears might tell us. According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), aviation has become the first ultra-safe transportation system in history. That means that for every ten million cycles (one cycle involves both a takeoff and landing), there is less than one catastrophic failure.

Dan Bubb, a former pilot from Las Vegas, Nevada, told Newsweek that most holidaymakers wouldn't realise that a fellow passenger had passed away. He said: "If a passenger dies, they will be discreetly removed from the plane, and to avoid upsetting other passengers, the flight crew will not inform the passengers that a [fellow] passenger has died."

Ever wonder where pilots sleep on planes, why people clap upon landing, and what happens when a passenger dies mid-flight?

The Federal Aviation Administration suffered a major system outage this week that grounded planes from coast to coast. More than 10,000 flights were delayed, and 1,000 were canceled after the FAA stopped all domestic departures nationwide. The system was down for almost 90 minutes—it resumed operations at 9 a.m. E.T. yesterday—but the damage was done: the ripple effect continued through the day.