Ghost flights are commercial planes operating with few or no passengers. The practice gained public attention during the pandemic, when demand collapsed but some airlines kept flying near-empty routes ...

Europe's sky is filling up with near-empty polluting planes that serve little other purpose than safeguarding airlines' valuable time slots at some of the world's most important airports. The highly ...

In December 2021, 27,591 aircraft took off or landed at Frankfurt airport—890 every day. But this winter, many of them weren’t carrying any passengers at all. Lufthansa, Germany’s national airline, ...