Last year, airline pilots scored hefty pay raises through new labor contracts, sparking a wave of demand for better wages among flight attendants.

Shares of Spirit Airlines surged approximately 10% following the announcement that both Spirit and JetBlue plan to appeal a federal judge's ruling against their merger on antitrust grounds.

In a dramatic incident at Tokyo's Haneda airport, a Japan Airlines flight carrying hundreds of passengers caught fire on the runway after colliding with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft.