Boeing was generating optimism. Then on Thursday a 787 crashed, raising the specter of fresh problems for Boeing and altering the message it planned to send.

Three days after the crash, only 35 bodies had been handed over to relatives from an overall official death toll of 270.

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed shortly after take off on Thursday in what is one of the deadliest plane accidents in terms of the number of British nationals killed. It struck a medical college hostel in a residential part of Ahmedabad, killing 241 of the 242 people on board.

An Air India plane with more than 200 people on board crashed near the airport in India's city of Ahmedabad, the airline and police officials said.

This comes nearly a month after a Turkish company managing operations at nine major Indian airports lost its security clearance, following Ankara's stance supporting Pakistan during Operation Sindoor.

Southwest Airlines is still dealing with passenger fallout over its elimination of free checked bags for most customers. The popular, largely domestic airline's deviation away from unassigned seating was also a significant change for people to absorb. At the same time, Southwest is making some ...