Ghost flights are commercial planes operating with few or no passengers. The practice gained public attention during the pandemic, when demand collapsed but some airlines kept flying near-empty routes ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Toward the end of 2020, when it became clear that the international health crisis wouldn’t just go away in a matter of weeks, major airline carriers started to devise strategies to keep their ...