If you’ve ever sat on a plane wondering why the pilot announced that you’d be landing soon but seemed to be flying in circles with no runway in sight, you’ve probably been in a holding pattern.

Holding patterns for airports in dusty regions are particularly potentially damaging to aircraft engines, analysis of dust ingestion at 10 airports worldwide has found. Arrival holds contributed over ...

A United Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 narrowbody aircraft was forced to delay its landing at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) amid the initiated maintenance-related holding pattern, according to ...