Bankrupt Airline To Consider Huge Merger
DALLAS -- American Airlines says it is agreeing with creditors to consider potential mergers while it is still under bankruptcy protection. American ...
DALLAS -- American Airlines says it is agreeing with creditors to consider potential mergers while it is still under bankruptcy protection. American ...
Dane Steele Green | Posted 01.28.2012
As the lines to the back of the jet get backed up with people, the commoners get a glimpse of what is offered in front of them. They are teased as the upper class fidgets with their electronic massage seats while sipping on cold red wine and munching on salted nuts.
AP | By DON MELVIN | Posted 11.27.2011
BRUSSELS -- An EU program aimed at slowing climate change will allow airlines to emit 85 percent of their carbon dioxide limits for free in the hope t...
Posted 10.24.2011
UPDATE 8/25/11: Airlines are expanding the scope of their Hurricane Irene wavers, now offering assistance to passengers traveling to or from Caribbean...
Kate Hanni | Posted 10.24.2011
For decades, the commercial airlines have successfully managed to convince the DOT that they should police themselves when it comes to how they treat passengers--essentially preventing any meaningful reforms.
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Burmon | Posted 10.24.2011
A series of pro-passenger Department of Transportation airline regulations aimed at decreasing the number and length of tarmac delays, making extra ti...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 06.02.2011
LONDON -- Wayne Rooney's hat trick kept Manchester United on track to win the English Premier League with a 4-2 comeback victory over West Ham on Satu...
Tina Wells | Posted 05.25.2011
The Girl Up initiative encourages American girls to raise awareness and funds for the 600 million adolescent girls living in developing countries.
AP | EDUARDO GALLARDO | Posted 05.25.2011
SAO PAULO — A United Airlines pilot was briefly detained at the international airport in Rio de Janeiro after lowering his pants during a securi...
AP | JOSHUA FREED and DAVID KOENIG | Posted 05.25.2011
United Airlines and Continental Airlines agreed to combine in a $3 billion stock swap to create the world's biggest airline, people with knowledge of ...
Ed Zitron | Posted 05.25.2011
Economy travelers pay to be treated at best like idiots, and at worse like prisoners, and it's only getting worse.
AP | RUSS BYNUM | Posted 05.25.2011
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Federal regulators are considering a snack attack on the nation's airlines that would restrict or even completely ban serving peanut...
AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 05.25.2011
LONDON — A breast-feeding mother accidentally smothered her four-week old child aboard a United Airlines flight from Washington, D.C., to Kuwait...
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011
The president singled out insurance companies for special criticism in his speech on Wednesday. So why did health insurance stock prices go up the next day?
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 05.25.2011
The airlines are getting very desperate ... charging more and more for things that used to be free.
AP | RUPA SHENOY | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — A computer problem temporarily disrupted United Airlines flights at O'Hare International Airport on Thursday, causing long delays and ...
Chip Conley | Posted 05.25.2011
As a transformational leader, Barack needs to remember that his greatest gift is in helping us see the sense of "oneness" that we have at our core that can unite us.
Judy Muller | Posted 05.25.2011
On November 5th, one of these two candidates is going to have to take the devastated, bruised, outraged feelings of millions of Americans and make them believe that they still have a vital voice in this democracy.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
Hillary made the case she needed to make to her supporters who were still sitting on the fence, and she did it perfectly, in a speech for the ages.
Crain's Chicago Business | John Pletz | Posted 05.25.2011
Changes in United Airlines' top management team continued Friday, with the announced departure of Jake Brace, its longtime chief financial officer. M...
AP | Adam Schreck | Posted 05.25.2011
United Airlines said Friday it will start requiring minimum stays for nearly all domestic flights beginning in October. It is also raising its cheapes...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — United Airlines plans to ground dozens of its least fuel-efficient aircraft in an effort to conserve cash and cope with spiraling fuel...
Chicago Tribune | Julie Johnsson | Posted 05.25.2011
Airline mergers may be off the table, for now, but a major industry reordering is still under way as United, Delta and Northwest Airlines contemplate ...
AP | DAVID KOENIG | Posted 05.12.2012