Love bagging the window seat on planes? It's exciting to watch the world below fade away as the aircraft takes off with the window blinds open. However, those blinds, or shades, do more than allow you ...

A viral video is proving exactly why you should keep your plane window shut during air travel—especially for the sake of those around you.

Flight attendants may require window shades to be up during takeoff and landing for passenger safety. Open windows let passengers and crew quickly see hazards outside and help first responders assess ...

When you set out on a flight, you usually don’t expect to see a once-in-a-lifetime sight out the window. For Tasha, air travel is a fact of life. She traverses the country several times during the ...

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 ...

Wils shared the video on TikTok, and it went viral, amassing 3.1 million views You can’t control the people around you on a plane. Tori Wils was on a two-hour flight to North Carolina when the woman ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recent viral TikTok video featuring a veteran pilot has shed light on a little-known aspect of air travel history – why airplane ...

When it comes to airplane windows, it’s not hip to be square. The shape of airplane windows might seem arbitrary, but there’s actually a grim reason behind their design, according to air experts. They ...

Mention windows on a plane to most travelers, and their minds usually jump to the age-old debate: window or aisle? (For me, the answer is quite obviously window.) But the topic curves in a different ...