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A US airline has completed the first test flight of a plane partly powered by biofuel derived from algae.

According to a Port Columbus Police report, a passenger approached the pilot on Tuesday afternoon, saying he "smelled and looked drunk," 10TV's Andy Hirsch reported.

The National Transportation Safety Board says the Houston-bound flight that crashed in Denver on Dec.

A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile. The New York-based airline said capacity declined 5.1% to 2.67 billion available seat miles last month from 2.81 billion in December 2007.

Go to the mobile version of this Web site. NTSB chief investigator Bill English stands by the burned wreckage of Continental Flight 1404 is placed in an enclosed area of Continental hangar in Commerce City, ...

A Los Angeles airport spokesman says a man who allegedly made a threat aboard a jetliner as it was landing was subdued by passengers and is being questioned.

Taking a cue from the cellphone industry, an upstart South African airline is selling flights by the minute and allowing customers to buy tickets and book flights via text message.

If President-elect Barack Obamaa s choice for Secretary of Transportation wins Senate approval, one contentious issue Ray LaHood may not be handling is a bid by AMR Corp.a s American Airlines and British ...

There were only 26 survivors in the mid-afternoon crash of a Spanair jet that crashed on takeoff at Madrid airport in August 2008.

US Airways Group Inc. says it will post a loss for 2008 and cut capacity this year, according to a company filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Sitka, Alaska, high school student Hannah Hamberg won Alaska Airline's "Paint the Plane" competition, which the airline said commemorates Alaska's 50th year of statehood.

Call it a heavy defeat: ten air hostesses employed by Air India have been fired for being too fat to fly.

Southwest Airlines Co. said on Tuesday the passenger carrier increased its traffic slightly in the month of December and for the entire year of 2008.

It was a mixed bag for Texas airlines in December. Dallas-based Southwest Airlines Co.

Federal regulators have ordered American Airlines to reimburse two pilots who took leave but were forced to pay back the airline.

American Eagle says no one was injured this afternoon after an emergency landing of an Embraer ERJ-145 in Killeen, Texas following a flight from Dallas.

Continental Airlines today reported a December consolidated load factor of 79.9 percent, 1.2 points above the December 2007 consolidated load factor.

Members of the Frontier Airline Pilots Association today ratified a long-term labor agreement with the airline.

Traffic on United Airlines fell 11.5% in December from a year earlier, with the worst weakness on flights in the Pacific region, according to preliminary figures released Monday.