Close up of a tiny hole in an airplane window. Known as breather or bleed holes, these tiny holes help with cabin pressurization and keep the windows clear. Wilbur and Orville Wright—the brothers ...

Some airplane window seats lack windows due to seat configurations that don’t align with the fixed window placements built into the aircraft fuselage. Airlines often adjust seat pitch to add more rows ...

You’re buckled in, tray table up, ready for takeoff, when you glance out the window and spot something strange: a tiny hole in the glass. Cue the panic. Is the window broken? You’re not alone. A ...

The person closest to the window in every row gets to control the shade. On overnight flights, or very early morning ones, it’s just the right thing to do to keep your window shade closed so everyone ...

Square windows create local stresses on an aircraft's fuselage and are blamed for three catastrophic airliner in-flight break ups in the 1950s.

When you glance out your airplane window at 30,000 feet, that curved little portal seems like a simple design choice. But the reason it is round has nothing to do with style. It is the result of one ...

People notice many things while flying, but one small detail always makes passengers curious. If you’ve ever taken a window seat, you may have spotted a tiny hole at the bottom of the airplane window.

A Frontier Airlines passenger was restrained on a flight from Denver to Houston after he allegedly began screaming and punching the aircraft window Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has ...

Delta Airlines flyer Laura Iu freaked out after seeing that her airplane window was seemingly taped together, only for a flight attendant to accuse her of blowing things out of proportion.