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Boeing's Dreamliner will soon be back in the air
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes Apr 26, 2013
Japan has given the green light to Boeing's 787 Dreamliner. Japans two biggest airlines, Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines, may resume flying the aircraft, which has been grounded since January.
Mitigating the cost and frustration of sequester flight delays
Shannon Mullen Apr 25, 2013
How are airlines managing the flight delays related to sequester furloughs, and their impact on flyer morale and costs?
Lufthansa strike grounds hundreds of flights
Steve Evans Apr 22, 2013
Ground staff at Lufthansa, Germany's biggest airline, walked off the job Monday on a one-day strike that prompted the company to cancel most of the day's scheduled flights.
Do merging airlines actually mean better customer service?
David Gura Apr 8, 2013
A new report says airlines scored their second best performance rankings in 23 years. Find out how that happened when airline mergers were supposed to make customer service worse.
Airline mergers: Which aircraft maker wins?
Nancy Marshall-Genzer Mar 27, 2013
Like any new couple, the American-US Airways merged airline will eventually have to decide things like, which new planes to buy -- and that can get complicated.
Luggage Check: Increased travel boosts luggage industry
Adam Allington Mar 19, 2013
Travel is up, and so are purchases of new suitcases.
Better radar, tracking systems lead to safest air travel since 1945
Jeremy Hobson Feb 12, 2013
Today marks four years to the day since the last fatal crash of a commercial airliner in the U.S. In addition, the New York Times points out that last year was the safest for global air travel since 1945.
Airlines react to Northeast storm, thousands of flights cancelled
Jim Burress Feb 8, 2013
The nation’s airlines are slashing flights by the minute in anticipation of Northeast’s winter weather. United, which has a hub at Newark Liberty International, led the cancellation race; Delta was second.
CEO Ben Baldanza on how Spirit Airlines does things differently
Jeremy Hobson Jan 22, 2013
One of South Florida's top business leaders runs one of the country's cheapest airlines.
Airlines make more money by offering fewer seats
Jim Burress Jan 22, 2013
Airlines to turn profit offering fewer -- but fuller -- flights.
