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Yahoo! News | NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press Writer | Posted 09.10.2009 | Business
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Wendy Diamond | Posted 08.16.2009 | Style
Donning your dog in an occasional outfit at special occasions such as weddings or any charitable event doesn't harm, but clothes on canines are too often a "don't-do!"
AP | ADAM GOLDMAN and VICTOR EPSTEIN | Posted 07.19.2009 | New York
NEWARK, N.J. — The only inkling passengers had that something was wrong on the Continental Airlines flight over the Atlantic Ocean was when an a...
Yahoo! Finance | Joshua Freed | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Airlines are doing a better job of taking care of the passengers they still have, according to a new study. The increase came as ...
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz and John Pletz | Posted 06.15.2009 | Chicago
A major shuffle is about to begin at O'Hare International Airport in which two airlines move in with new partners, potentially freeing gates for addit...
Yahoo! Finance | David Koenig | Posted 05.23.2009 | Business
DALLAS (AP) -- Continental Airlines Inc. said Wednesday it lost $136 million in the first quarter as traffic fell and business travelers saved money b...
Michael Russnow | Posted 03.28.2009 | Business
Why haven't these horrendous so-called cost conscious changes been rescinded as the gas prices have come down?
Ben Sherwood | Posted 03.28.2009 | Living
In the US, you could fly every day for the next 164,000 years on average before you would perish in a crash.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 03.19.2009 | Living
The reality of plane crashes came, well, crashing home and suddenly Sully and his crew from the Miracle on the Hudson seemed even more...lucky, skilled, lucky, miraculous.
AP | CAROLYN THOMPSON | Posted 03.16.2009 | Home
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The crew of the commuter plane that fell on a house, killing all 49 people aboard and one person on the ground, noticed signific...
Posted 03.16.2009 | Home
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE A SLIDESHOW OF ECKERT ***UPDATE: 10:40am EST*** President Obama spoke about Eckert before his remarks on the economy this mornin...
Posted 03.16.2009 | Media
Click the video below for the press conference: .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px;...
AP | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday offered condolences to the families and friends of those killed in a commuter plane crash in upsta...
Posted 03.15.2009 | Home
SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEOS AND SLIDESHOW This is a breaking story - check AP for updates here. A Continental commuter plane coming in for a landing nos...
AP | DAVID KOENIG | Posted 03.01.2009 | Business
DALLAS — Continental Airlines Inc. joined all its major U.S. rivals in posting a loss for the fourth quarter, as the nation's fourth-largest car...
AP | JOHN PORRETTO | Posted 02.07.2009 | Green
HOUSTON — Continental Airlines on Wednesday became the first U.S. commercial carrier to conduct a demonstration flight powered in part by altern...
AP | KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 01.21.2009 | Home
DENVER — It was a miracle that no one was killed when an airliner veered sharply off a runway during takeoff, burst into flames and nearly broke...
USA Today | Dan Reed | Posted 06.13.2008 | Business
The law of supply and demand is kicking in for airline passengers this summer -- and not in their favor. Despite a string of price increases this yea...
AP | DAVID KOENIG | Posted 06.13.2008 | Business
DALLAS — Continental Airlines said Thursday it is cutting 3,000 jobs and reducing capacity by 11 percent, citing record fuel costs that have pus...
AP | DAVE CARPENTER | Posted 05.28.2008 | Business
CHICAGO — Passengers are more dissatisfied with airlines' customer service than they have been in years at a time when carriers are charging mor...
New York Times | Andrew Ross Sorkin and Micheline Maynard | Posted 05.05.2008 | Business
Continental Airlines said Sunday that it had abandoned merger talks with United Airlines and was planning to remain an independent carrier, a blow to ...
New York Times | MICHELINE MAYNARD | Posted 05.03.2008 | Business
United Airlines and Continental Airlines are getting closer to a merger agreement and would like to wrap up a deal by the end of next week, people wit...
Fox News | Christopher Hinton | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
By late Friday neither Delta Airlines nor Northwest had made any comment regarding potential consolidation discussions. In a Wall Street Journal story...
New York Times | Jeff Bailey | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The miserably full flights of 2007 might seem like a good reason for airlines to roll out a few more planes and ease the crowding. But passengers sho...
Simon Sinek | Posted 12.16.2009 | Business