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The Federal Aviation Administration gave formal approval on Thursday for a new lithium-ion battery system for Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner, ending a three-month ban and clearing airlines to fly the plane with passengers again.

As United Flight 731 climbed out of Newark with 107 people aboard, the pilot and first officer were startled to find screens that display crucial navigational information were blank or unreadable and radios were dead.

Australia's Qantas Airways said Wednesday it was temporarily grounding one of its A380 superjumbos after discovering dozens of hairline cracks in its wings during a maintenance inspection.

Airlines are getting rid of these planes — their least-efficient — in response to the high cost of fuel. Delta, United Continental, and other big airlines are expected to park, scrap or sell hundreds of jets with 50 seats or fewer in coming years. Small propeller planes are meeting the same fate.

Delta Air Lines, in a move to replace some of its older single-aisle planes, is expected to place an order for 100 of Boeing's extended-range 737-900 aircraft valued at more than $8 billion.

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner sparkled Saturday in a rare Pacific northwest sunshine, as All Nippon Airways finally unveiled the plane they had waited for.

American Airlines is buying at least 460 new planes over the next five years in what it calls the biggest airline order in history. And in a victory for Airbus, it's splitting the work between the European plane maker and Boeing....

The CEO of a regional airline operating in Congo says a passenger plane crashed on its way from the capital to the city of Kisangani.

Thai Airways announces plans to acquire 37 new aircraft over the next six years at a cost of 118.6bn baht.

Southwest Airlines said on Tuesday that it had completed inspections of its older Boeing 737s and had found small cracks in a total of five passenger planes.