The drama-filled year in airlines started with a midair door panel blowing off a nearly new Boeing 737 Max 9.
Meanwhile, carriers duked it out for who could be the most "premium" and profitable, with cabins closer to the front of the plane becoming more popular purchases for travelers on July 23, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.Windows machines offline. It cost Delta Air Lines more than $500 million and left thousands of stranded customers, with a cancellation tally that topped all of 2019. Still, the carrier's stock price hit a record this month.
Delta stopped short of rolling out a business-class lite product that some analysts expected during a November investor day, but the new lounges could relieve crowding at Delta's popular Sky Clubs.An American Airlines airplane passes behind a United Airlines airplane at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, on Sept. 28, 2024.