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Byline: DAVID KOENIG; ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS -- A federal judge on Thursday rejected a deal that would have allowed Boeing Co. to plead guilty to a felony conspiracy charge and [...]

The Transportation Department said Friday it will hit https://apnews.com/article/jetblue-icahn-spirit-bb8803524df1fa84f3f0a121fe17c259 with a $2 million penalty for chronically late flights along https://apnews.com/article/jetblue-airport-lounges-new-york-boston-e8d668921edfe711125965831c8c187f, and half the money will go to passengers who were [...]

Drivers and airline passengers without https://apnews.com/video/christmas-slovakia-james-brooks-international-b39f199400b04743934b142d93a82584 better make a dash for it: it's beginning to look like another https://apnews.com/article/holiday-travel-record-tsa-airlines-thanksgiving-9b344c4b70c971d2851d184b6e192430 in the U.S. The auto club AAA predicts that more than [...]

The Biden administration said Thursday it will take steps toward requiring airlines to pay cash compensation and cover lodging and meals for passengers who are stranded when an airline causes [...]

DALLAS (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday rejected a deal that would have let https://apnews.com/article/boeing-guilty-plea-crashes-245a38dc6d3082f4ddff1f6f74f274f2 to a felony conspiracy charge and pay a fine for misleading U.S. regulators about [...]

Members of a U.S. Senate subcommittee took aim at airline executives Wednesday for using an https://apnews.com/article/airline-fees-disclosure-judges-block-rule-c273957f46401eba023592a40aec79e9 to charge customers for early boarding, better seats and other comforts that used to [...]

Byline: DAVID KOENIG, MANUEL VALDES, LINDSEY WASSON; ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE -- Blue-collar workers from Boeing Co. walked picket lines in the Pacific Northwest instead of building airplanes on Friday after [...]

Travelers who waited until the last day to make their https://apnews.com/live/thanksgiving-holiday-travel-updates-1126 need to be prepared for busy highways and the most crowded day yet this week at the nation's airports. […]

DALLAS (AP) — https://apnews.com/article/delta-airlines-trump-biden-regulation-c4393d5f763d95c8286d4069563032dc and https://apnews.com/article/united-airlines-starlink-spacex-internet-wifi-088d76af3fcca0b9108ced8b2ee19470 have become the most profitable U.S. airlines by targeting premium customers while also winning back a significant share of travelers on a tight budget. [...]

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg snapped back Thursday at https://apnews.com/article/delta-airlines-trump-biden-regulation-c4393d5f763d95c8286d4069563032dc who say the Biden administration over-regulated them, pointing out that some of those airlines are making large profits despite new https://apnews.com/article/airline-refunds-congress-faa-cb8ccaa66e25e5af30d852f3411bcc10. [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — Spirit Airlines, the largest budget carrier in the U.S., filed for Chapter 11 https://apnews.com/article/spirit-airlines-bankruptcy-debt-losses-782c7fb892adf1d2f366411bab955668 Monday. The airline said customers should not see any disruption to their [...]

https://apnews.com/article/spirit-airlines-stock-layoffs-sells-planes-20c2b6688a453a68bea475a7db7783e1 said Monday that it has filed for https://apnews.com/article/spirit-airlines-bankruptcy-jetblue-merger-a8fa808c667a9b0f2bc2b668a5629d0b and will attempt to reboot as it struggles to recover from the pandemic-caused swoon in travel, stiffer competition from bigger carriers, [...]

Byline: Drew Koenig The women's basketball team hosted their annual Webster Tip-Off Classic over the weekend at Grant Gymnasium, and won the tournament for the fourth consecutive season. Graduate student [...]

DALLAS (AP) — Boeing says it will be several weeks before it fully resumes building passenger planes, as factory workers return https://apnews.com/article/boeing-contract-vote-strike-machinists-union-5237a31660b0a06381457e33f9a72369#:~:text=The%20union%20said%20its%20workers,some%20workers%20might%20need%20retraining. that lasted nearly two months. A https://apnews.com/hub/boeing-co spokesperson [...]

DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines is offering buyouts and extended leaves of absence to airport workers to avoid what it calls “overstaffing in certain locations,' which it blames on a [...]

Byline: Drew Koenig Typically, Webster's athletic teams do not usually have many students from outside the United States on their roster. However, the men's soccer team features a crop of [...]

SEATTLE (AP) — Factory workers at Boeing have voted to accept https://apnews.com/article/boeing-contract-vote-strike-machinists-union-614c4d5afd97d1f50ab9cfe1f4f94255 and end https://apnews.com/article/boeing-strike-vote-ca1326b3512b577bba76bee9e9e66a17 after more than seven weeks, clearing the way for the company to restart idled Pacific [...]

Unionized factory workers at Boeing are voting Monday whether to accept https://apnews.com/article/boeing-strike-union-machinists-vote-1f9d66fb18e8b89e0d6751a5182baf6b or to https://apnews.com/article/boeing-strike-vote-ca1326b3512b577bba76bee9e9e66a17, which has lasted more than seven weeks and shut down production of most Boeing passenger [...]

Since going on strike last month, https://apnews.com/article/boeing-earnings-strike-vote-new-ceo-af6c6dab8747d5b8189df97a55e6b8d9 have repeated one theme from their picket lines: They want their pensions back. Boeing froze its traditional pension plan as part of concessions […]

DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines will replace several members of its board with candidates pushed by Elliott Investment Management to end a monthslong fight with the hedge fund, which is [...]

SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing factory workers voted against the company’s latest contract offer and remain on the picket lines https://apnews.com/article/boeing-strike-vote-machinists-12d008c0127bab57f8cc9941f48e3ac6 that has stopped production of the aerospace giant’s bestselling jetliners. [...]

SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing factory workers voted Wednesday to reject the company’s latest https://apnews.com/article/boeing-strike-contract-offer-pay-increase-e86e43bcbbf3e140e89d33c901766554 and to continue https://apnews.com/article/boeing-strike-vote-machinists-12d008c0127bab57f8cc9941f48e3ac6 that has halted production of the aerospace giant’s bestselling jetliners. Local union [...]

DALLAS (AP) — The U.S. government fined https://apnews.com/hub/american-airlines-group-inc $50 million for failing to provide wheelchair assistance to https://apnews.com/article/airlines-wheelchairs-regulation-biden-administration-71be0f947702fd6e9dcdde97bd53b3ef and damaging thousands of wheelchairs over a five-year period, The https://apnews.com/hub/us-department-of-transportation said [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats in Texas will once again wait on Election Day to find out whether this is the year they can win a statewide race after three decades [...]

Boeing and the union representing striking machinists have negotiated a new contract proposal that would provide bigger pay raises and bonuses in a bid to end a costly walkout that [...]

Boeing's biggest supplier of aircraft components said Friday that it will temporarily furlough 700 workers later this month, warning that it would have to resort to layoffs if a https://apnews.com/article/boeing-new-stock-debt-finances-strike-b7839aef372f4b4e8312f9efbe8ef24b [...]

United Airlines on Tuesday reported that its third-quarter profit fell 15% from a year ago but revenue trends improved thanks to low-fare carriers scaling back their growth plans for the [...]

Boeing plans to lay off about 10% of its workers in the coming months, about 17,000 people, as it continues to lose money and tries to deal with a strike […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Relatives of passengers who died in two crashes of Boeing 737 Max planes came to a federal court in Texas on Friday to listen as [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of flights in and out of the U.S. have been canceled this week as https://apnews.com/live/hurricane-milton-florida-tracker-updates barreled into the Gulf of Mexico and plowed across Florida [...]

Third-quarter earnings fell 26% at Delta Air Lines, which struggled to overcome a https://apnews.com/article/what-is-crowdstrike-worldwide-outage-94b4fc5ac6eed46ddcd565a5f1e4b916 that led to thousands of flight cancellations, and indications that growth in air travel is beginning [...]

A few airports in Florida began closing and airlines canceled hundreds of flights on Tuesday ahead of https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-milton-florida-tampa-7678939c52fdf00da748937d22df1fac. Government officials from President Joe Biden on down warned companies not to [...]

DALLAS (AP) — Leaders of Southwest Airlines are set to explain how they plan to remodel the airline to change with consumer tastes -- and maybe keep their own jobs. [...]

DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines plans to eliminate about one-third of its flights to Atlanta next year to save money as it comes under pressure https://apnews.com/article/southwest-jordan-elliott-34ea37c5315051b68c78630c9abc59db to increase profits and [...]

SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing is giving the union representing https://apnews.com/article/boeing-strike-union-negotiations-89997704299f09bf28ad135919174b11 more time to consider a revised contract offer with bigger pay increases and more bonus money, but it was unclear [...]

Boeing said Monday it made a “best and final offer” to https://apnews.com/article/boeing-strike-union-negotiations-89997704299f09bf28ad135919174b11 that includes bigger raises and larger bonuses than a proposed contract that was https://apnews.com/article/boeing-strike-vote-machinists-12d008c0127bab57f8cc9941f48e3ac6. The company said the [...]

A labor strike at https://apnews.com/hub/boeing-co showed no signs of ending Friday, as the https://apnews.com/article/boeing-strike-machinists-contract-9f61a7d48675d1c3517233d40d4ec2b1 by 33,000 union machinists entered its eighth day and the company started https://apnews.com/article/boeing-strike-ceo-layoffs-starting-ff5b5e0a85696c07832a351640830549 of nonunion employees [...]

Boeing’s CEO said Wednesday that the company will begin furloughing “a large number” of employees https://apnews.com/article/boeing-strike-union-mediation-wages-6f6c5433bb81ff007fffcb2d572c0baf during the strike by union machinists that began last week. Chief Executive Kelly Ortberg [...]

The Biden administration is letting Alaska Airlines complete its $1 billion purchase of Hawaiian Airlines after the carriers agreed to certain conditions, including maintaining maintain current service on routes between [...]

SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing plans to freeze hiring and reduce travel and is considering temporary layoffs to save cash during a https://apnews.com/article/boeing-strike-machinists-contract-9f61a7d48675d1c3517233d40d4ec2b1 that began last week, the company told employees [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — https://apnews.com/article/boeing-strike-machinists-contract-9f61a7d48675d1c3517233d40d4ec2b1 by some 33,000 Boeing machinists has halted production of the American aerospace giant's best-selling airplanes. The workers began picketing at Boeing factories and plants in [...]

DALLAS (AP) — United Airlines has struck a deal with https://apnews.com/hub/elon-musk SpaceX to offer satellite-based Starlink WiFi service on flights within the next several years. The airline said Friday the [...]

SEATTLE (AP) — Blue-collar workers from Boeing walked picket lines in the Pacific Northwest instead of building airplanes on Friday after they https://apnews.com/article/boeing-strike-vote-machinists-12d008c0127bab57f8cc9941f48e3ac6 a proposed contract that would have raised […]

SEATTLE (AP) — Machinists at https://apnews.com/hub/boeing-co voted Thursday to go on strike, another setback for the giant aircraft maker whose https://apnews.com/article/boeing-fraud-plea-deal-victims-justice-department-0cd99f8e7fd4e8e98621a91b8eb2e102 and https://apnews.com/article/boeing-sales-cancellations-crisis-674375bc711c299cac19b6df09443d4a have been battered and now faces a […]

Southwest Airlines will revamp its board and the chairman will retire next year, but it intends to keep CEO Robert Jordan after a meeting with hedge fund https://apnews.com/article/southwest-airlines-elliott-management-proxy-fight-64902083ada73763dd51a3131d26a207, which has [...]

Devices powered by lithium-ion batteries are overheating more often during airline flights and passengers often put them in checked bags that go into the cargo hold, where a fire might [...]

DALLAS (AP) — https://apnews.com/hub/boeing-co and its largest union are entering the last week of contract negotiations before a threatened strike by more than 30,000 workers who build the planes that [...]

https://apnews.com/hub/boeing-co and its largest union said Sunday they reached agreement on a new contract that, if ratified, will avoid a strike that threatened to shut down https://apnews.com/article/boeing-airbus-airline-safety-manufacturing-8a7c361e379285c87c9a84638faf9302 by the end [...]

The Biden administration is examining the four largest U.S. airline https://apnews.com/article/airline-loyalty-program-deceitful-investigation-137a190dcaf7737d0a14bbbcf921f4d8 and how they devalue points that consumers have earned and frequently change the number of points or miles needed [...]

Byline: Leah Koenig Whenever I fall into a dinnertime slump (which, as the primary cook for my family of four, happens more than I'd like to admit), I do what [...]