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UAL Corp., US Airways Group Inc., and eight other companies paid executives $350 million in the five years before the United States was forced to take over their underfunded employee pension plans, a government report said.

Southwest Airlines Co. said Friday it will require uncontested candidates for its board of directors to win a majority among shareholder votes cast to be elected, instead of just a plurality.

Share + Comments Nov 20, 2009 8:00 am US/Pacific DENVER A United Airlines pilot from Colorado accused of being drunk in the cockpit before a flight was to take off from London didn't attend a court his court hearing in England on Friday.

Continental Airlines Inc. said Thursday it matched a move by other carriers to raise surcharges for travel on a few peak days in March and April to $30 each way.

United Airlines, the third largest airline in the United States, is about to place its first aircraft order in more than a decade, airline sources said Thursday.

An Air France A380 superjumbo , the world's largest civilian airliner, is to set off on Friday on the first Air France flight across the Atlantic bound for New York with 538 passengers aboard.

American Airlines says preparations for an investment in Japan Airlines Corp. are at an advanced stage after Delta Air Lines Inc.

Managers of the nation's largest single conservation area are offering up to 12 teachers and community leaders an opportunity to spend a week in the pristine reserve north of Hawaii.

Ryanair Chief Executive Officer Michael O'Leary said a deal to buy new planes from Boeing is "highly unlikely." He said talks with the aircraft company will end if a deal isn't reached by the end of the month.

Nov 19 - Air France-KLM plans further job cuts after posting H1 loss. UK retail sales hit 17-month high.

The failed computer system that caused flight delays across the country has been restored, the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday.

Air France-KLM says it will cut 1700 jobs next year after Europe's largest airline posted a bigger than expected net loss for the second quarter.

Two-year-old airline Virgin America touched down Wednesday in Florida, marking one of its most ambitious expansion moves yet with a lavish welcoming ceremony that included Virgin Group Ltd.

An airline passenger suffered a slight injury while coming down an escape slide when a charter plane made an emergency landing in Kansas after losing an engine.Allegiant Air spokeswoman Sabrina LoPiccolo says the MD-80 was carrying 125 passengers from Pittsburgh, Pa., to Laughlin, Nev., on Wednesday night and had stopped at Mid-Continent Airport in ...

FORT WORTH, Texas - Flight attendants for American Airlines, bitter over stalled contract negotiations, staged a fake strike Wednesday that included airport picket lines.

In this Dec. 14, 2007 file photo, a traveler uses a Delta Airlines credit card to buy an airline e-ticket at the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, Calif.

The Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer reports that Allegiant Air will begin offering some tickets for $9.99 on its one-way flights between Owensboro and Orlando, Fla.

United Airlines was among the airlines on Tuesday that confirmed it will cost travelers more to fly on certain busy days next year.

Japan Airlines Corp's stock slid to a new low on Wednesday after the nation's transport minister declined to rule out a court-led bankruptcy and despite a report that private equity firm TPG may invest as much as $1.1 billion.

It soon will be harder to avoid advertising if you fly on one major carrier. AirTran Airways is installing ads on the bottom of seat-back tray tables on all its planes.