Travel

This holiday weekend, travel volume is expected to be very high. It’s estimated that 578,000 Oregonians will hit the road, driving 50 miles or more from home.

In ongoing contract negotiations, pilots at major airlines are pushing for changes in scheduling, to allow for more time at home and fewer missed birthdays and other celebrations.

The GAO also said airlines are taking longer to recover from disruptions like storms. Surges in cancellations in late 2021 and early 2022 lasted longer than they did before the pandemic, the GAO said.

Travelers driving on Interstate 84 through the Columbia River Gorge should expect intermittent lane closures and traffic delays this spring and summer.

A Mesa Airlines jet was landing on the same runway in Burbank, California, that a SkyWest plane was using to take off. It's the fourth such runway incursion over the last several weeks.

With the exception of pandemic-disrupted 2020, the number of weapons intercepted at U.S. airport checkpoints has climbed every year since 2010.

A new app called GoodMaps is offering accessibility to travels at Portland International Airport.

Passengers who looked for last-minute tickets encountered sky-high prices — in some cases, triple or quadruple the rate for the same route in the last few months. Experts say it's fairly normal.

Forecasters say Portland could see the coldest temperatures in many years and Eastern and Central Oregon could experience wind chills of 25 degrees below zero. Major utilities Thursday morning reported thousands of homes and businesses without power, mostly in the Portland area.

Several airlines are waiving the fees to change flights as snow storms, high winds and low temperatures are expected across the U.S.