Airline News

Southwest Airlines planes and employees touched down at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport Saturday to prepare for the launch of Atlanta service.

Svelte and bubbly, Donna Prisco was exuberant when she landed a job in 2008 as a flight attendant for Colgan Air after being a stay-at-home mother of four for 28 years.

With so much doom and gloom economically the last few years, it's good to see a bright spot that includes thousands of Minnesotans.

Al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki personally directed and approved the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner which a Nigerian man tried to carry out on Christmas Day in 2009, according to new details released by federal prosecutors on Friday.

Hawaiian Airlines President and CEO Mark Dunkerley, seen in this file photo, played himself on this week's episode of the CBS TV crime drama "Hawaii Five-0." Local viewers also may have noticed that the flight attendant in the opening scene was former Miss Hawaii Denby Dung, who is a Hawaiian Airlines flight attendant in real life.

The service, provided by Frontier Airlines, will be offered Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays through Sept.

The reservation system that United Continental is moving to is already in use by Continental, so many employees of the combined airline already know how to use it.

Flight cancellations are putting Pet Airways in the doghouse, Ryanair's O'Leary makes new enemies in Spain, on-board a USAF Osprey, EVA Air is flying new Hello Kitty jets, and more...

A shocking discovery is made by a computer expert in Colorado Springs. He says the popular app for Southwest Airlines is not secure.

A whole different animal will be flying in to central Illinois beginning May 18, when Frontier Airlines begins nonstop service between Central Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington-Normal and Denver International Airport.

As part of their ongoing push to win the hearts of Bostonians through sports marketing, JetBlue today unveiled an Airbus A320 painted to resemble a Boston Red Sox uniform.

Japan Airlines , under business rehabilitation, has begun to loan its pilots to foreign airlines for the first time in its history.

Local residents will soon have the opportunity to fly east out of the Bellingham International Airport, at least for the summer.

The Humphrey terminal at Minneapolis/Saint Paul International Airport is going through some growing pains.

There is an ongoing battle over a new federal guideline requiring airlines to be candid about all costs associated with purchasing a ticket, and two Gerald R. Ford International Airport mainstays are taking a prominent role.

A major credit-rating agency says pending layoffs at American Airlines will have a noticeable effect on the Dallas-Fort Worth economy but should cause only limited harm to individual cities because of the region's large job base.

A new forecast released on Wednesday by European aircraft manufacturer Airbus suggests air traffic in Spain will almost double by 2030, requiring Spanish airlines to buy as many as 400 new passenger planes over the next 20 years.

Oscar had his own boarding pass - and a major entourage - as he boarded a commercial flight named in his honor from Chicago to Los Angeles on Thursday.

Cedar Rapids - Frontier Airlines says it will begin flying out of the Eastern Iowa Regional Airport in Cedar Rapids starting in mid-May. The carrier says it will fly four, weekly non-stop flight to its Denver hub beginning May 17th, and will begin offering introductory flights for $60/each way starting in late April.

A recovery in demand for cargo shipments is failing to lift prices as bigger passenger jets like the A380 superjumbo create a glut of belly space, crimping margins at Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Delta Air Lines Inc.