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A baggage handler and a former baggage handler for Delta Air Lines Inc . were arrested Thursday on suspicion of stealing tens of thousands of dollars in cash and property from passengers' luggage at Los Angeles International Airport, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Officials at the Norfolk and Richmond International airports said Thursday they have yet to receive notification from the airline of any potential service changes or lay-offs related to the announcement.

Malev, the government-owned national airline of Hungary, ended operations Friday morning, the culmination of weeks teetering on the edge of insolvency.

Emirates inaugurated its fifth US destination Thursday morning: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, the first scheduled nonstop flight between DFW and the Middle East.

WestJet uses 136-seater Boeing 700-series planes to shuttle travellers between Ottawa and Toronto, now up to nine times a day.

Michael O'Leary, chief executive of Irish low-fare airline Ryanair, attends a news conference in Marseille-Provence airport, October 13, 2010.

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Asian stocks fell, with a regional index dropping from a three-month high, as companies from Singapore Airlines Ltd.

The Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport said today that passenger traffic at Alabama's largest airport fell in both December and for the full year compared to 2010.

Singapore Airlines Ltd., the world's second-largest carrier by market value, reported a fifth straight decline in quarterly profit because of rising fuel costs, greater competition and waning demand for premium travel.

How the bankruptcy of AMR, the parent company of American Airlines, would affect employees was laid out Wednesday afternoon, after the legacy carrier announced that thousands would most likely lose their jobs.

Parent company AMR Corp. of American Airlines said Wednesay it wanted to cut 13,000 jobs and $1.2 billion from employee pension plans, the Associated Press reported on its website.

Singapore Airlines Ltd. said Thursday that quarterly profit plunged 53 percent as passenger demand slowed while higher fuel prices sent costs up.

Close to 2,100 jobs are expected to be lost in Tulsa when American Airlines completes its bankruptcy reorganization plan.

TULSA, Okla. - American Airlines is expected to slash about 2,100 jobs at its maintenance facility in Tulsa under a bankruptcy reorganization plan released by its parent company, a spokesman for the airline said Wednesday.

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American Airlines parent company, AMR, has confirmed that it will cut some 13,000 positions as it wades its way through bankruptcy proceedings.

American Airlines' parent company says it lost $904 million in December _ more than in the first nine months of 2011 combined.

American Airlines' bankrupt parent, AMR Corp. is preparing to announce layoffs. Police have been placed on standby while the company meets with unions Wednesday morning, ABC News affiliate WFAA reports from AMR's headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas.