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Bankrupt Airline To Consider Huge Merger

AP | DAVID KOENIG | Posted 05.12.2012

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DALLAS -- American Airlines says it is agreeing with creditors to consider potential mergers while it is still under bankruptcy protection. American ...

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House Votes To Extend Key Institution

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 05.09.2012

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WASHINGTON — The House voted Wednesday to extend the life of the Export-Import Bank, culminating a struggle that has split Republicans between p...

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CEO Gets Huge Pay Boost As His Company's Stock Plunges

AP | Posted 04.28.2012

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ATLANTA -- Delta Air Lines Inc.'s chief executive, Richard Anderson, received a 10 percent raise in his pay package in 2011, a year when the company's...

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High School Students Endure Delta Emergency Landing

AP | Posted 04.23.2012

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Dozens of students from Minneapolis Southwest High School were on board a Delta flight from New York when one of the pilots decla...

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Bird Strike Causes Delta Emergency Landing

Posted 04.19.2012

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A Delta plane en route from New York struck a bird and was forced to make an emergency landing, according to reports. Delta flight 1063 took off f...

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Delta Embarrassed By Loan Guarantee From Federal Agency It Wants To End

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Corporate Welfare, Boeing, Video, Mitch McConnell, Jim Demint, Economy, Exim Bank, Export-Import Bank, Harry Reid, Delta, Club for Growth, Obama, Ex-Im, Tea Party, Ex-Im Bank, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A bizarre lobbying battle that pits Delta Air Lines and the Tea Party against the Export-Import Bank became even more interesting on Thu...

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WATCH: The Many Flash Mobs Of Delta

Posted 02.13.2012

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We never tire of airline employees filming themselves doing zany things, so when we saw this new video floating around the Twitterverse, we had to fla...

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WATCH: Drunk Passenger Dragged Off Flight By Air Marshalls

Posted 02.08.2012

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PREVIOUSLY, 1/6/12: A drunk Minnesota man was dragged off a flight for allegedly attacking a flight attendant, reports KARE 11. Allen Chaves was a...

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WATCH: Suitcase Cameras Give New Perspective On Airport Baggage

www.gadling.com | Posted 12.23.2011

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Ever wonder what happens to your bag after sending it down the tunnel behind the gate agent at the airport? The folks at Delta Air Lines just rele...

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Delta's Big Expansion

AP | SAMANTHA BOMKAMP and JOSHUA FREED | Posted 02.15.2012

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NEW YORK — Delta Air Lines Inc. plans a massive flight expansion out of New York's LaGuardia airport, hoping to improve its competitive edge aga...

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Watchdog: Retired Workers At Major Airline Shorted On Pensions

AP | By MARCY GORDON | Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Retirement Benefits, House Education and Workforce Committee, Video, Bankruptcy, AMR Corp, United Airlines, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., Delta, Pension Plans, Business News

WASHINGTON -- A watchdog report says the agency that insures pensions for millions of U.S. workers made serious errors in valuing pension plans for Un...

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Pilot Locked In Bathroom Causes Terror Scare

Posted 11.17.2011

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After a Chatauqua Airlines pilot was accidentally locked in his plane's lavatory, a terror scare ensued when a passenger with an accent tried to help ...

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Government Shutdowns Get The 1% What They Want

Dave Johnson | Posted 01.15.2012

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A while back I was writing about the Republican threat of a government-wide shutdown, and the two-week Federal Aviation Administration shutdown (and D...

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In Flight, Romney Is Aloof With Fellow Passengers

New York Times | EMMARIE HUETTEMAN | Posted 01.06.2012

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Mitt Romney was polite as he took his seat in coach next to Carolyn McClanahan of Jacksonville, Fla., on a recent Delta flight to Boston. He thanked h...

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Passenger Wrestled To Ground After Reaching For Exit Handle

Posted 12.25.2011

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A disruptive passenger on an Atlanta-bound Delta flight forced the plane to return to Las Vegas on Sunday morning. The man has been identified as ...

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Houston We Have A Problem: Whitney Reportedly Almost Tossed From Delta Flight

Posted 12.13.2011

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Call it diva-like behavior, but Whitney Houston almost got the boot from a Delta flight on wednesday for refusing to buckle her seat belt. TMZ rep...

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Airlines Turn To Biofuels

HuffingtonPost.com | Rebecca Dolan | Posted 11.21.2011

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Aviation is responsible for an estimated 2 percent of human-generated carbon dioxide emissions. The industry's rapid growth is doing nothing to decrea...

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Armrest Elbow Quarrel Leads To Threat

AP | Posted 11.21.2011

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A 60-year-old Salt Lake City man faces federal felony charges after authorities say he threatened a seatmate on a Las Vegas-bound flight, the Associat...

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INFOGRAPHIC: How To Board A Plane

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Burmon | Posted 11.02.2011

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Where millions and millions of passengers saw yet another unpleasant step in the process of air travel, particle physicist Jason Steffen saw a solvabl...

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Hurricane Irene: Airlines Offering Refunds, Flight Changes To Travelers (VIDEO)

Posted 10.24.2011

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UPDATE 8/25/11: Airlines are expanding the scope of their Hurricane Irene wavers, now offering assistance to passengers traveling to or from Caribbean...

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More Rights For Airline Passengers...

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Burmon | Posted 10.24.2011

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A series of pro-passenger Department of Transportation airline regulations aimed at decreasing the number and length of tarmac delays, making extra ti...

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Delta Buys 100 New Boeing Jets

Posted 10.24.2011

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Delta Airlines will add 100 Boeing jets to its fleet in the coming years, a more than $8 billion investment that will replace less efficient planes wi...

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The Points Guy: Pillars Of Frequent Flier Strategy

Brian Kelly | Posted 10.19.2011

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Though I fly over 150,000 miles a year, the majority of my miles and points come from non-flying sources.

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FAA Funding Hinges On Partisan Fight Over Unions

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 10.09.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The clock is ticking for Congress to come up with a way to prevent another embarrassing shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration....

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Delta To Refund Taxes Collected During FAA Shutdown

www.gadling.com | by Grant Martin | Posted 10.01.2011

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There was hope and outcry last week after news broke that as part of its partial shutdown, the FAA wouldn't be collecting the fees that it assesses ag...

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