A viral video of a man punching the back of a women’s reclined airline seat got Delta Air Lines Chief Executive Officer Ed Bastian’s attention. But he made things worse, when he asked flyers to be polite and check with the passengers behind them before hitting the recline button. This angered many people who have watched seats shrink over the ...

There hasn’t been a full-length runway built in southeast England, where London’s Heathrow airport is located, since World War Two. With a climate crisis raging, now is a bad moment to try. Europe’s largest airport hub makes do with two landing strips (Amsterdam’s Schiphol has six), and with 80 million passengers using them every year, they can’t handle any more. ...

If you ever wondered how much Sen. Bernie Sanders’ vast array of policy proposals would cost, we now have a reasonably good estimate from his own staff. The answer is about $50 trillion over the next decade. Sanders may or may not be a “democratic socialist” — whatever that means — but he clearly is a soak-the-rich radical who would ...