Airline News

Airline food. No, that's not the punchline to a joke. Air carriers serve meals, and where there's food, there can't be a restaurant critic too far behind.

A prayer will be said and a period of silence observed at Scott Base around 12.50pm today to mark the moment 30 years ago when an Air New Zealand plane crashed in Antarctica.

A proposed change in the operation of flights from Greater Rochester International Airport to LaGuardia Airport in New York City could be just the thing that local business travelers want.

It wasn't the amount of the fine itself -- $175,000 -- but the fact that it represented the first time the US Department of Transportation penalized a carrier for subjecting passengers to extended tarmac delays.

Spreading out like an eagle: 1time has made the same choice as its fellow low-cost carrier Allegiant Air in the United States.

About 70 New Zealanders stood in silence in the Antarctic snow Saturday to remember 257 people who perished 30 years earlier when an airplane smashed into a nearby mountain in New Zealand's worst air disaster.

AirTran Airways announced Friday new non-stop flights from Des Moines International to Orlando.

After a Northwest Airlines plane flew past Minneapolis last month, air traffic controllers asked the pilots repeatedly for explanations about why they didn't heed radio calls, according to transcripts released on Friday.

Airline shares fell with the broader market on Friday, even though airline investors got something that would usually count as good news - falling oil prices.

Air France had a short stay at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. It launched flights to Paris in May 2001, but shut down eight months later.

Christchurch businessman Mike Pero has called on the government and Air New Zealand to help resolve the ugly scrap over his plans for a flight to commemorate the Air New Zealand DC10 crash at Mt Erebus.

Continental, JetBlue and Singapore Continue to Fly High; Southwest Named Best Domestic Value; Virgin America Top Midsize Airline and Website; Portland Named Top Airport, LaGuardia Worst; Surveyors Seek Direct Routes, Reasonable Prices and Green Air Travel Zagat released the results of its 2009 Airline Survey today, covering 16 domestic and 73 ...

As the 1960s began, questions about the future of Bloomsburg's airport hung in the air.

US Airways Group Inc. plans to reduce capital expenditures during the next three years, and doesn't expect to access the aircraft-finance market next year.

Passengers and travel agents have voted Singapore Airlines this year's best international carrier in a Zagat survey that also showed how the economic downturn had grounded the travel industry.

JetBlue Airways and its creative agency, WPP-owned JWT, are splitting up, despite a four-year run marked by the airline doubling its footprint to some 60 markets and earning a dedicated terminal at New York's JFK airport.

Airline bmi today announced a restructuring involving a reduction in planes and routes and the possible loss of at least 600 jobs worldwide.

Midwest Airlines has tied for the top spot on this year's Zagat survey for customer satisfaction with airlines.

CHINA Eastern Airlines today launched a strategic cooperation with Alibaba Group to boost its online ticket sales.

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced today that its renewable jet fuel process technology was used to convert second-generation, renewable feedstocks to green jet fuel for a biofuel demonstration flight by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.