Tag: Air Travel

Southwest Airlines expects bookings to decline in the aftermath of an accident that led to a passenger's death in April.

Southwest Airlines predicts slide in bookings after deadly engine failure

Joe Williams · April 26, 2018 12:49 pm

In this 2001 photo, an F-16 takes off, with afterburners glowing, from an Air National Guard base.

F-16 pilot safely ejects during emergency landing in Arizona

Katelyn Caralle · April 24, 2018 7:10 pm

Booming economy leads to record-high spring break air travel

Anna Giaritelli · April 24, 2018 4:00 am

In this photo, an air traffic controller works in the tower at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J.

The dream of a privatized air traffic control system dies next week

Susan Ferrechio · April 22, 2018 4:00 am

Southwest passengers compensated with $5,000 payment, travel voucher after emergency landing

Melissa Quinn · April 20, 2018 3:42 pm

Southwest ramps up engine inspections after deadly in-flight failure

James Langford · April 18, 2018 2:49 pm

National Security

Southwest pilot Tammie Jo Shults is a naval aviation pioneer, service confirms

David Brown · April 18, 2018 10:48 am

In this Wednesday Sept. 9, 2015, file photo, radio host Glenn Beck speaks during a Tea Party rally against the Iran deal on the West Lawn of the Capitol in Washington. SiriusXM announced May 31, 2016, that Beck was being suspended over his comments in a May 25, 2016, interview with author Brad Thor.

Glenn Beck puts personal plane on the market: Report

Diana Stancy Correll · April 17, 2018 10:49 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2014 file photo, a Southwest Airlines plane with a new paint job flies over Love Field in Dallas. On Monday, Oct. 13, 2014, Southwest will launch its first long-distance flights from its home base at Dallas Love Field to seven cities across the country, with eight more destinations next month. Such flights were prohibited until now by a longtime law that protected Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport by limiting flights from Love Field to a few nearby states.

Passenger killed when Southwest commercial jet’s engine fails mid-flight

Tristan Justice, James Langford · April 17, 2018 7:55 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2014 file photo, Southwest Airlines Flight 4013 sits at the M. Graham Clark Downtown Airport in Hollister, Mo. On nearly 150 flights, U.S. commercial air carriers have either landed at the wrong airport or started to land and realized their mistake in time, according to a search by The Associated Press of government safety databases and media reports since the early 1990s. (AP Photo/Springfield News-Leader, Valerie Mosley, File)

Woman partially sucked out of a Southwest plane after engine explodes

Tristan Justice · April 17, 2018 5:38 pm

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks at a news conference at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Trey Gowdy: Scott Pruitt should become a monk if he doesn’t want to deal with people’s criticism

Naomi Lim · April 15, 2018 3:47 pm

National Security

Air Force faults pilot in $30 million mid-air crash that destroyed two A-10 Warthogs

Jamie McIntyre · April 12, 2018 11:04 am