TAMPA - Nina was missing since Friday. Somehow this 10-pound, black-and-white cat was able to escape its carrier and hide in Tampa International Airport. ...more

February 13, 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

A deal to lease a vacant maintenance hangar at Tampa International Airport to an Alabama company that said it might create 410 jobs here by 2009 has fallen through, an airport spokeswoman said Tuesday. ...more

December 5, 2007

TAMPA - A deal to lease a vacant maintenance hangar at Tampa International Airport to an Alabama firm that said it might create 410 jobs here by 2009 has fallen through, an airport spokeswoman said today. ...more

December 4, 2007

Susan Cole wanted to fly her 12-year-old son Danny from their Maryland home to Houston so he could catch a football game with his dad, who was there on a business trip. ...more

November 21, 2007

Florida's unemployment rate edged up to 4.2 percent in October, the state's highest unemployment rate since February 2005, according to a monthly state report released Friday. ...more

November 16, 2007

Pardus Capital Management, a New York hedge fund, has sent a letter to the management of Delta Air Lines asking it to seek a merger with UAL, the parent of United Airlines, in a deal that would create the world's largest airline. ...more

November 15, 2007

An unemployed man was lying when he told authorities he was shot and then went to Tampa International Airport and boarded a flight, Pinellas County sheriff's officials said Tuesday. ...more

October 24, 2007