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Commercial air travel might be the safest way to get around – yet millions of Americans have a fear of flying. With the summer travel season about to get underway, we sat down with an MSU Denver psychologist who specializes in helping people who are afraid to fly. She offered some strategies to help you or a loved one take that flight you’ve been fretting over.

A consumer-focused report from Colorado Public Interest Research Group (CoPIRG) highlights which airlines end up with the most complaints from passengers. It includes everything from lost baggage to canceled flights.

Air traffic controllers in Denver had to scramble to use backup frequencies after their main communications lines went down for 90 seconds earlier this week in the latest Federal Aviation Administration equipment failure. The FAA's head of air traffic control, Frank McIntosh, said during a House hearing Thursday that the outage in Denver happened Monday afternoon but its radar remained online.

Spirit Airlines is rebuffing the latest takeover offer from Frontier Group, with the discount airline saying that it prefers focusing on its current reorganization plan. Spirit said that it believes that its restructuring will provide more value to stakeholders.

Winter weather is causing flight delays and cancellations. Experts have tips on what to do when your itinerary gets scrambled by a storm. Airlines are required to provide refunds for customers whose flights are canceled for any reason. Airlines will try to put you on a later flight, but that depends on there being open seats.

Southwest Airlines canceled over 300 flights Tuesday at Denver International Airport. This is just one of the thousands of cancellations nationwide over the past few days.

The American Automobile Association predicts national travel will be back up to pre-pandemic levels, with 54.6 million people traveling more than 50 miles for the holiday.

As the airline industry works to cut its carbon dioxide emissions, a team of researchers believe they've found a "runway" to 100% sustainable aviation fuel.

JetBlue has agreed to buy Spirit Airlines in a $3.8 billion deal, a day after Spirit and Frontier Airlines dropped their merger proposal.

Spirit Airlines said Thursday it was again postponing a shareholder vote on a proposed merger with Frontier Airlines to continue talks with Frontier and rival bidder JetBlue Airways. The vote was delayed from Friday until at least July 15.