British Airways PLC shares jumped more than 7 percent Thursday amid speculation about what kind of deal it might ink with American Airlines and Continental Airlines and the possibility of wider consolidation among European major carriers. ...more

May 2, 2008

Continental Airlines said Sunday it has abandoned merger talks with United Airlines and plans to remain an independent carrier, a blow to lengthy efforts by United to find a merger partner. ...more

April 28, 2008

American Airlines said it was canceling up to 500 flights Tuesday, potentially more than one-fifth of its schedule, to check the bundling of wires in some planes, the same issue that caused the airline to scrap more than 400 flights last month. ...more

April 9, 2008

Nubs has a new home. The frozen, war-ravaged desert and ruins of Iraq are in the past for this dog. The German shepherd-border collie mix that was rescued and nursed back to health by Marine Maj. Brian Dennis and his men arrived in Chicago on Wednesday on a Royal Jordanian Airlines flight. Nubs flew out again Friday on an American Airlines jet, landing in the afternoon at San Diego's Lindbergh Field before heading to his new address. ...more

February 23, 2008

Every day, American Airlines Flight 914 takes off from Bogota, Colombia, at 8:20 a.m. and touches down at the Miami airport at noon. In the jet's cargo hold are usually bags and bags of euros that investigators say are part of a huge $1.4 billion cocaine money-laundering scheme. ...more

February 16, 2008

TAMPA BAY AREA Tampa Fares 14th Lowest Tampa International Airport reported the nation's 14th-lowest departing air fares among the 100 largest U.S. airports for the period ending Sept. 30. For passengers departing Tampa's airport, round-trip and one-way air fares (grouped together for statistical purposes) averaged $264.38 for the third quarter, down 1.7 percent from the year-ago quarter and down 0.8 percent from the third quarter in 2000. ...more

January 31, 2008

Four of the five largest U.S. carriers, including AMR Corp.'s American Airlines, cut their round-trip fuel surcharge to $20, dropping an increase that briefly doubled the fee. ...more

January 23, 2008

UAL Corp.'s United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Continental Airlines have doubled their round-trip fuel surcharges in most U.S. markets to $40, matching an increase by AMR Corp.'s American Airlines. ...more

January 19, 2008

TAMPA BAY AREA Airport Sets Record Tampa International Airport set a record with 9.58 million passenger departures in 2007, up 1.5 percent compared with 2006, despite a year-end decline airport officials attributed to an economic downturn. Southwest Airlines remained the airport's leading carrier with 27.8 percent market share, followed by Delta Air Lines, US Airways, Continental Airlines and American Airlines. The number of departing passengers declined 4.2 percent in December to 771,544 compared with a year ago. ...more

January 17, 2008

CHICAGO - United Airlines says it faced the worst December weather in its 80-year history last month and is apologizing to frazzled passengers. ...more

January 6, 2008