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A United Airlines flight was diverted to Salt Lake City due to a bomb threat and landed safely in the Utah airport, local airport officials said on Thursday.

A collision with a large bird forced a United Airlines plane to return to Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia, ...

The Department of Homeland Security is further increasing aviation security in response to intelligence indicating Islamist terrorists were planning another attack, a senior U.S. official tells NBC News.

Two F-15 fighter jets escorted a passenger jet that had been headed for Hawaii back to Portland International Airport in Oregon after a passenger in coach became "uncooperative," an airline official said Wednesday.

There is no initial evidence that the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet was involved in a larger plot, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday.

Airlines are scrambling to accommodate passengers affected by the cancellation of hundreds of flights after a monster weekend winter storm blanketed a swath of the East Coast.

The Transportation Department is ordering airlines to let passengers stuck in stranded planes exit after three hours.

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.

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 ...

Delta and US Airways agreed to swap takeoff and landing slots at airports in New York and Washington.