William Dunn, a former Marine Corps pilot, questions what the communication was between air traffic control, the plane and ...

Southwest's CEO Bob Jordan said "our hearts go out" to people on the American Airlines flight involved in Wednesday night’s ...

In our opinion, Southwest has the best balance sheet of all the US-based carriers. As the pandemic has wreaked havoc on air travel demand and airlines’ business model, liquidity became more paramount ...

Lawmakers have an interest in boosting direct flights to their states because Reagan is closer to downtown than Dulles.

US airlines had gone 16 years without a fatal crash until Wednesday night. But as impressive as that safety record had been, ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found no evidence of foul play and blamed the crash on errors by the pilot, who failed to retract the plane’s spoilers, or air brakes, at the critical ...

Equipment failure led Flight 232 from Denver to Chicago to crash in Sioux City in 1989, killing more than 100 people.

Delta, United, American and Southwest generated about $8 billion in profit on $200 billion in revenue last year, but the airlines all lost money flying passengers.

Frontier and Spirit Airlines will once again try to merge, only months after the Biden administration won a key antitrust ...

Airlines have issued travel waivers to help passengers whose flights into and out of Washington, D.C., were affected ...

Fatal crashes of commercial aircraft in the U.S. have become a rarity. The deadliest recent crash was in 2009 near Buffalo, ...

Search efforts continue after an American Airlines plane from Wichita, with 64 people on board, collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., and crashed into the Potomac River.