A new year means new resolutions, new opportunities and, importantly for travelers, new flights. Hawaii trips are set to get a bit easier at Southwest Airlines. Greenland will get what may be its first U.S. nonstop on United Airlines. And a newly beefed-up Alaska Airlines is launching flights to Tokyo and Seoul.

Air New Zealand, which flies one of the longest regularly scheduled routes on the entire planet, took the top award, handed out by AirlineRatings.com. The Kiwi carrier serves Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, from New York’s JFK Airport — a distance of 8,828 miles. The trip takes 16 hours and 15 minutes.

Alaska Airlines is going big in Oregon this summer with three new routes — and additional flights on existing routes — from the Beaver State. Beginning May

Fort Lauderdale is no stranger to long routes. In fact, the flight from LAX is one of the top seven longest flights out of the airport. Other destinations include Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, San Diego, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle.

An annual list of the world's safest airlines has been released for 2025 and only one of the top 10 is American-based—Alaska Airlines. Newsweek has contacted Alaska Airlines for comment via email. The rankings,

There’s been enough drama in the past year to knock U.S. airlines off their game. An Alaska Airlines blowout grounded dozens of planes. There was a failed JetBlue-Spirt merger and Spirit’s bankruptcy.

Alaska Airlines' merger with Hawaiian Airlines aims to enhance connectivity and drive earnings growth through strategic initiatives in 2025.

The world's safest full-service and low-cost airlines for 2025 have been revealed. AirlineRatings.com examined fleet age, rate of incidents, and pilot skills among the factors they considered when deciding between over 300 airlines.

On the other end of the spectrum, the Midwest has done a decent job of taking care of travelers' items, with major airports in Kansas City, Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Denver ranked among the top six for the least complaints per 100,000 passengers.

Bank of America reset some of its ratings in the airline sector as the earnings season prepares to take off. Overall, the firm thinks network carriers should continue to outperform due to premium revenues,

American said it was anticipating higher costs driven by lower capacity and expensive labor contracts to dampen its first-quarter outlook.