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President Obama intends to empty out Guantanamo Bay and send scores of suspected Muslim terrorist operatives back to their jihadist-coddling native countries.

The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of a rabbi who said he was grounded from a frequent flier program for complaining too much.

Whoever provided the initial leak to the Associated Press in April 2012 not only broke the law but caused the abrupt end to a secret, joint U.S./Saudi/British operation in Yemen that offered valuable intelligence against al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.

While other airlines have ordered more than 3,000 of the next generation narrow-body models, the Boeing 737 MAX and the Airbus A320neo, Delta says it is playing it safe.

A dispute between a frequent flier and an airline is heading to the Supreme Court.

At only 4 years old, Cecelia Crocker was the lone survivor of the 1987 Northwest Airlines crash in Romulus, Mich.

In fact, 2012 was a record year for extra-fee revenues: U.S. airlines raked in a staggering $6.03 billion in baggage and reservation-change fees, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The chief executive of Delta Air Lines says he plans to add jobs at the carrier's reservation center in the northeastern Minnesota city of Chisholm.

At just 4 years old, Cecelia Crocker became known as America's orphan after being the only survivor in a 1987 plane crash, which, to this day, she doesn't remember.

American air travelers are happier with low-cost carriers like Frontier and Southwest Airlines than with their traditional counterparts like Delta, American, and United, a new report shows.

Cecelia Crocker's body provides her with a constant reminder of the most traumatic event of her life - one that she doesn't otherwise remember.

When I moved from Washington, DC, to St. Paul, MN, nine years ago, I was a high flyer on American Airlines.

Delta Air Lines Inc. plans to return $1 billion to investors by repurchasing stock and restarting its dividend after a decade-long break punctuated by bankruptcy and the biggest acquisition in its history.

The wheeled suitcase is arguably such a, well, case. Bernard Sadow applied for a patent on wheeled baggage in 1970, after a Eureka moment when he was lugging his heavy bags through an airport while a local worker effortlessly pushed a large cart past.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, shown in this Dec. 28, 2009, booking photograph, pleaded guilty to charges connected to his attempt to blow up a U.S. bound airliner using plastic explosives hidden in his underwear.

Pinnacle Airlines Inc., which is relocating its headquarters to the Twin Cities from Memphis, Tenn., has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines.

The man who packed the parachutes used by infamous skyjacker D.B. Cooper more than four decades ago has been identified as the victim of a homicide in Washington state.

Yeager Airport Director Rick Atkinson said the merger of American Airlines and US Airways will bring more route options, potentially more first-class airplanes, and no dramatic price increases like the 50 percent price jumps seen at some big-city national airports.

As the postgame analysis on the Boston bombings grinds on, a conventional wisdom is starting to take shape based on the heated claims of pundits, officials and security experts, as well as the post-9/11 liturgy on terrorist theory.

"Glacial" tends to be the adjective used about the pace at which Congress works.