Transportation

The U.S. Department of Transportation in a final decision today approved Continental Airlines' request to join the Star Alliance as an antitrust-immune... KEEP READING

Delta Air Lines and Australia's Virgin Blue Airlines Group on Wednesday announced plans to form an antitrust-immune joint venture covering U.S.,... KEEP READING

American Airlines in a regulatory filing this week raised concerns that the U.S. Justice Department's recent involvement in airline antitrust... KEEP READING

Continental Airlines and its Star Alliance partners-to-be this week countered Department of Justice criticism of their antitrust immunity application... KEEP READING

Airline customer satisfaction has fallen to its lowest level in four years, according to a J.D. Power and Associates survey on North American carriers... KEEP READING

The U.S. Department of Justice in a filing on Friday vigorously criticized the Department of Transportation's tentative approval of Continental... KEEP READING

The U.S. Department of Transportation today issued a final order requiring SkyTeam carriers operating under antitrust immunity to file annual reports... KEEP READING

United Airlines on July 20 will discontinue an undisclosed number of travel agencies' access to its credit card merchant agreements, including those... KEEP READING

Republic Airways Holdings said it is acquiring Midwest Airlines from private equity firm TPG Capital and expects the deal to close after gaining final... KEEP READING

The Air Transport Association today said passenger revenue fell 26 percent in May, compared with the same period in 2008, representing the seventh... KEEP READING

British Airways is pulling its Gatwick-New York route, the last remaining service from London's second airport to the Big Apple, because of... KEEP READING

When the U.S. Department of Transportation in early April tentatively granted antitrust immunity to Star Alliance members United Airlines, Lufthansa,... KEEP READING

Ten years ago, the average scheduled flight time from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport to Los Angeles International Airport was 6 hours and 1 minute.... KEEP READING

The Transportation Security Administration this month clarified aspects of the Secure Flight program, noting that names on boarding passes do not have... KEEP READING

When the U.S. Department of Transportation in early April tentatively granted antitrust immunity to Star Alliance members United Airlines, Lufthansa,... KEEP READING