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Sen. Chuck Schumer called a flight attendant an obscenity aboard a recent U.S. Airways flight, Politico.com reported.

Fighting its way through more than two years of delays, Boeing's latest aircraft, the 787 Dreamliner, is scheduled to take its maiden flight Tuesday.

British Airways cabin crews will strike over the busy Christmas period, throwing the plans of thousands of holiday makers into uncertainty....

Air travel competition is heating up, and we're not talking about corporate profits and losses here. As airlines reduce flights and use smaller planes, passengers sometimes are jostling for storage space for their carry-on items.

A United Airlines pilot has been charged after being arrested at London's Heathrow Airport on suspicion of being drunk shortly before he was about to fly a transatlantic airliner, police said on Wednesday.

Desperate for revenue, the industry looks at a la carte pricing for a variety of services. Airline passengers who are fed up with all those extra fees now charged by carriers are in for some bad news: More of the same is yet to come.

The first officer of the Northwest Airlines jet that missed its destination by 150 miles says there was no fight in the cockpit and no one had fallen asleep.

The FAA has launched an investigation into why two Northwest Airlines pilots failed to make radio contact with ground controllers for more than an hour and overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles ...

Aircraft maker Boeing blames a net loss of $1.6bn (£974m) on rising production costs and poor market conditions.

An airfare watcher says airlines are trying their fourth fare hike since June.