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Byline: Dan Reed Lots of luck catching another flight if you've been bumped or miss a connection. Commercial airlines in the USA have never been so full. Seven of them [...]

Byline: Dan Reed DALLAS -- It's as quiet as a library in the green room in the studios of WFAA Channel 8, the ABC affiliate here, on a slow news [...]

Byline: Dan Reed If United and Continental airlines merge, passengers will end up paying higher fares -- right? Aaron Gellman, who's spent 40 years in and around the airline industry [...]

Byline: Dan Reed Airlines are increasing what travelers pay to go to Europe by imposing much higher surcharges for fuel than they charged last year. The charges, aimed at helping [...]

Byline: Dan Reed The long, steep descent in demand for air travel -- and in the fortunes of U.S. airlines -- may have temporarily bottomed out. Two fare hikes imposed [...]

Byline: Dan Reed Travelers who've already bought their tickets for summer or fall flights to Europe could be eligible for big refunds now that carriers, worried about weak business travel [...]

Byline: Dan Reed The recent plunge in oil prices has brought airlines some relief, but they're still facing serious financial pressure from near-record jet-fuel prices and a weak economy. A [...]

Byline: Dan Reed Southwest Airlines today reports what almost certainly will be its 69th-consecutive quarterly profit, a string dating back to 1991. It won't be the first time that the [...]

Byline: Dan Reed Philip Baggaley, a managing director in Standard & Poor's Corporate and Government Services analysis group, has followed airlines and aircraft leasing companies for 23 years and manages [...]

Byline: Dan Reed Record oil prices' toll on air travel climbed Thursday as several airlines unleashed new fees, higher fuel surcharges and schedule cutbacks. *US Airways said it will start [...]

Byline: Dan Reed The law of supply and demand is kicking in for airline passengers this summer -- and not in their favor. Despite a string of price increases this [...]

Byline: Dan Reed There aren't any 100% effective ways to avoid paying today's sharply higher airfares, but old tactics largely abandoned in the post-9/11 era of low fares are making [...]

Byline: Dan Reed Record jet-fuel prices are reversing one of the biggest trends in domestic air travel over the last 15 years, and that could leave some smaller cities with [...]

Byline: Dan Reed FORT WORTH -- American Airlines bowed even more deeply Wednesday to the reality of record high fuel prices by announcing steep cuts in flying this fall. The [...]

Byline: Marilyn Adams and Dan Reed Record-high oil prices are threatening to ground millions of travelers who have grown accustomed to flying for fun and business during the past 30 [...]

Byline: Dan Reed Americans flying to Europe in spring will be paying more -- in some cases, a lot more -- largely because of skyrocketing fuel costs. An analysis for [...]

Byline: Dan Reed It's getting repetitive: Business travel costs will rise next year. According to the American Express Global Business Travel Forecast, the average cost of a domestic business trip [...]

Byline: Dan Reed Virgin America, the long-awaited U.S. start-up linked to British billionaire Richard Branson, begins selling tickets today for flights tentatively set to begin Aug. 8. The carrier's first [...]

Byline: Dan Reed Southwest Airlines triggered an industrywide fare increase over the weekend, adding $1 to $10 each way to most of its fares. The bigger jumps typically apply to [...]

Byline: Dan Reed Following a 15-month run-up, average domestic airfares paid for business travel declined during the second half of 2006, says a report issued Monday by consultant American Express [...]

Byline: Dan Reed Discount king Southwest Airlines, appreciated by fliers for not charging the kinds of fees common at other carriers, may start charging for extra services. CEO Gary Kelly [...]

Byline: Dan Reed FORT WORTH -- Travelers this week may begin buying airline tickets on a Texas-based carrier that plans to have service to 24 cities coast-to-coast by the end [...]

Byline: Dan Reed FORT WORTH -- U.S. airlines today begin a series of earning reports that will put behind them their longest and deepest losing streak ever: a collective $35 [...]

Byline: Dan Reed Gulf Coast jet fuel has dropped to its lowest price in nearly 13 months, and may be headed lower. That's boosted the outlook for a troubled U.S. [...]

Byline: Roger Yu and Dan Reed Since business travel began to emerge in 2004 from its post-9/11 slump, the cost of keeping road warriors on the move has been going [...]

Byline: Dan Reed Demand for air travel is softening, and that's threatening the still-embryonic financial recovery of the battered airline industry. More worrisome is growing evidence that the slowdown began [...]

Byline: Dan Reed Beleaguered U.S. airlines seem to have slowly staggered to their feet since the terrorism and recession of earlier this decade. But credit agency Standard & Poor's has [...]

Byline: Dan Reed U.S. airlines are poised to report their first profitable quarter since 2000 thanks to strong travel demand, cost-cutting and disciplined management of capacity. Yet a Wall Street [...]

Byline: Dan Reed Fuel prices are surging, but rising fares and improved first-quarter results from four of the USA's major airlines are buoying industry executives' and analysts' expectations that most [...]

Byline: Dan Reed The millions who are expected to make this summer's air travel season the busiest ever should soon begin feeling the pain of the 24% run-up in crude [...]

Byline: Dan Reed Testing how much extra travelers will pay for comfort, Northwest Airlines on Tuesday began charging $15 to reserve coach seats with extra legroom. The USA's No. 4 [...]

Byline: Dan Reed and Roger Yu Anyone who believes that inflation has been whipped probably isn't paying for business travel. On every front -- air travel, hotels, rental cars -- [...]

Byline: Dan Reed Flipping normal industry economics upside down, some airlines in the USA are paying more for jet fuel than for the people they employ. AirTran, America West, JetBlue [...]

Byline: Dan Reed Delta Air Lines lost another $388 million in the second quarter as soaring fuel prices swamped cost-cutting efforts and increased the chances that the USA's No.3 carrier [...]

Byline: Marilyn Adams and Dan Reed Financially troubled Delta Air Lines Thursday raised its highest coach fares $100, confirming what travelers have been sensing for months: Domestic airfares finally have [...]

Byline: Dan Reed Continental Airlines bet big Wednesday on its future international business by ordering 10 of Boeing's new 7E7 Dreamliners for delivery starting in 2009. The airline, which is [...]