Several hundred maintenance jobs with Frontier Airlines will be leaving Colorado and heading to Wisconsin, after the announcement that Republic Airway...
Posted 10.30.2009 | Denver
Airlines cancelled dozens of flights and 3-4 hour waits this week as DIA struggled to clear nearly two feet of snow off of runways. The ordeal create...
AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 10.30.2009 | Denver
DENVER — An early blast of winter walloped some western states with deep snow and slowly pushed into Nebraska and Kansas Thursday, bringing bliz...
Posted 10.28.2009 | Denver
Just days after Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly declared that his airline would "continue to grow" in Denver despite failing to acquire Denver-based...
Posted 10.25.2009 | Denver
In an interview with 9News's Adam Schrager last week, Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly shared some of his company's goals in the Denver market. Sou...
AP | Posted 10.22.2009 | Denver
DALLAS — Southwest Airlines Co. is adding flights and new destinations from Denver, where it has grown rapidly in three years to compete against...
Posted 10.15.2009 | Denver
A Fort Collins Boy was accidentally carried away alone Thursday morning by an experimental aircraft that may take him as high as 10,000 feet. From th...
AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 10.14.2009 | Denver
WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday proposed levying multimillion-dollar fines against United Airlines and US Airways for safety violations, including flying a plane after mechanics stuffed shop towels into an engine.
The agency said it has proposed a $5.4 million fine against US Airways of Tempe, Ariz., for operating eight planes on a total of 1,647 flights from October 2008 to January 2009 in violation of safety directives or the company's own maintenance rules.
The agency also said it is proposing a $3.8 million fine against United of Chicago for operating one of its Boeing 737 aircraft on more than 200 flights with shop towels covering openings near where oil collects in the bottom of the engine instead of using protective caps required by the carrier's maintenance procedures.
Under FAA rules, the airlines have 30 days to present mitigating evidence before the agency can impose the fines. It's not unusual for fines to be reduced as the result of negotiations.
The hefty fines reflect the large number of flights that were allowed to carry passengers in violation of safety requirements, FAA spokeswoman Alison Duquette said. The agency doesn't know how many passengers were on the flights, she said.
The Aspen Times | Aspen Times | Posted 10.07.2009 | Home
DENVER - Denver International Airport has set another monthly record for passenger traffic....
9News | Ashton Altieri | Posted 10.02.2009 | Denver
DENVER - For the first time this fall, the Front Range woke up Friday to freezing temperatures. It was cold enough in Denver to break a record....
Vail Daily. | Vail Daily | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home
Denver International Airport records busiest month in its history in July...
Denver Business Journal | Ed Sealover | Posted 11.14.2009 | Denver
Snowbirds delight: Frontier Airlines is making more flights to more warm places, beginning this fall. The Denver-based airline will begin nonstop fli...
Westword | Westword | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home
It's all green all the time out at 8500 Pena Boulevard according to the PR chatter from officials at Denver International Airport. A vide...
Westword | Westword | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home
When Southwest Airlines made its run at purchasing Frontier Airlines this past month, a number of industry observers speculated that it was ...
The Denver Post | Ann Schrader | Posted 10.17.2009 | Denver
Weary passengers rank Denver International Airport as 10th in the world and first in the nation for a good place to sleep. A website, Sleepinginairpo...
CBS4Denver | CBS 4 Denver | Posted 09.19.2009 | Home
Denver International Airport wants to build a $7 million solar electric-generating system to power its fuel storage and distribution system. ...
AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 08.17.2009 | Home
The pilot of Continental Airlines Flight 1404 told investigators the plane was building up speed on takeoff last December when it suddenly veered off a Denver runway as if hit by a "massive gust of wind" or as if the tires had hit a patch of ice, records released Friday show.
"I felt my ass end sliding out from underneath me in a sideward motion," Captain David Butler told National Transportation Safety Board investigators. "The nose was pointing left, and the ass end was pointing the other way without any input on my part.
"My speculation is that we either got a big, nasty gust of wind or that, with the controls we had in, we hit some ice."
The pilot's interview is among evidence made public in the National Transportation Safety Board investigation of the Dec. 20 accident. The board hasn't reached a conclusion yet on the probable cause of the accident.
Winds were reported at about 31 mph just before takeoff. The flight's co-pilot estimated the plane was traveling at about 100 mph when it suddenly changed direction and ran off a runway at Denver International Airport.
AP | KRISTEN WYATT and MEAD GRUVER | Posted 04.26.2009 | Green
DENVER — A major spring snowstorm dumped more than a foot of snow across the Colorado-Wyoming state line on Thursday, canceling hundreds of flig...
AP | COLLEEN SLEVIN | Posted 01.23.2009 | Business
DENVER — Aviation experts say it could take up to a year to figure out what caused a Continental Airlines plane to veer off a runway and slide i...
AP | COLLEEN SLEVIN | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business
DENVER — Investigators climbed inside the cracked, charred wreckage of a Continental Airlines jet Monday, searching for clues about why the plan...
AP | P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 01.20.2009 | Home
DENVER — A Continental Airlines jet taking off from Denver veered off the runway into a ravine and caught fire Saturday night, forcing passenger...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
United Airlines, still recovering from weekend storms in the Midwest, canceled dozens more flights Thursday as the second winter storm since Christmas...
Posted 11.10.2009 | Denver