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In the European Union, a 2004 law guarantees airline passengers up to $700 as compensation for delays of three hours or more. The Trump administration just killed a similar proposal for American travelers.On Friday, federal officials withdrew a Biden-era proposal that, if enacted, would have required airlines to compensate passengers…

A passenger allegedly stabbed two teenagers with a metal fork during a Lufthansa flight on Saturday from Chicago to Frankfurt, Germany — an incident that forced the aircraft to return to the US.The US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, part of the Justice Department, said that Praneeth Kumar…

Since the pandemic, incidents with unruly passengers on airlines have escalated.There were almost 6,000 reports in 2021, nearly five-times as many as a year earlier, according to data from the Federal Aviation Administration.Over the next three years, the number of incidents remained roughly twice the amount reported pre-pandemic.Up to September…