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The agency that oversees public transportation in Chicago is suing American Airlines for falsely claiming to buy "vast amounts of jet fuel" from a small office in a rural community to avoid paying tens of millions of dollars in taxes in the nation's third-largest city, where the actual work is done.

A judge in the Cayman Islands fined a Louisiana man $600 on Tuesday for forcing a Delta Air Lines flight to make an emergency landing after he got into a drunken argument with his wife aboard the plane on their anniversary.

A Surrey man accused of smuggling four kilograms of heroin into Canada inside two suitcases he'd bought in India has been acquitted on all charges.

Shares of Southwest Airlines have received an average rating of "Buy" from the nineteen analysts that are presently covering the stock, American Banking News.com reports .

Hawaiian Airlines is increasing its fee for checked bags. Beginning Monday, you'll pay $25 for your first checked bag - up from $17.

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A United Airlines Boeing 737-800 is equipped with a new, split scimitar winglet that adds a downward foil to the vertical one.

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Southwest Airlines announced on Monday that it is hoping to add nonstop service between Charleston and Dallas Love Field.

Airlines are still tallying up the damage from this winter's storms, but solid demand for travel means they are likely to weather the rocky start to 2014 in good shape.

Delta planes line up at their gates while on the tarmac of Salt Lake City International Airport in Utah in this file photo taken September 28, 2013.

Stocks drifted to a slightly lower finish Monday as investors sifted through a blend of discouraging economic data from China and Japan as well as ongoing uncertainty over Russia's incursion into Ukraine.

American Airlines is getting more than $425 million from selling takeoff and landing rights, or slots, at New York's LaGuardia Airport and Reagan National Airport outside Washington.

Doug Parker said his airline was paid more than it expected to get for the rights - called slots - at the busy airports.

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The Global Business Travel Association - the voice of the global business travel industry - today announced Jeffery A. Smisek, Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of United Airlines, will be a featured speaker at Center Stage at the GBTA Convention 2014 to be held July 26-30 in Los Angeles, Calif.

American Airlines and JetBlue Airways Corp. are ending an agreement that allowed travelers to add connections to their itinerary on each other's aircraft.

United Airlines, the nation's third-largest carrier, is cracking down on passengers who drag oversized bags into the cabin.

American Airlines and JetBlue Airways said they plan to end agreements covering ticketing, baggage handling and frequent flyer programs.

Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air will start nonstop service from the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport to two locations in South Carolina and Florida in May. The discount airline announced last week that it plans to offer two nonstop flights a week to both Myrtle Beach, S.C., and the Tampa, Fla., region.