Continental Airlines

SPRINGFIELD, Mo -- Since 2001 United, U.S. Airways, and Continental Airlines have filed for bankruptcy. Now American Airlines joins that list. All of the so-called legacy airlines have fallen over the last decade and American was the only one to hold...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- All airline mergers are not created equal. When Southwest Airlines bought AirTran Airways in 2011, the merger cost Yeager Airport a significant amount of money, said Rick Atkinson, the airport's director. Before the merger, more...

American Airlines, hoping to reinvent itself by coming out of bankruptcy with a new logo, freshly painted planes and a merger plan that will make it the nation's largest carrier, suffered a setback Tuesday when a computer outage grounded hundreds of...

This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details. For a carrier whose parent company is still in bankruptcy, American Airlines doesn’t show signs of retrenching. The airline announced plans Wednesday to expand to eight new...

For an air carrier whose parent company is still in bankruptcy, American Airlines doesn't show signs of retrenching. American announced plans Wednesday to add eight destinations out of Los Angeles International Airport in an effort to secure more big-...

The nation's airlines improved their on-time performance and baggage handling rates in 2012 but passenger complaints rose anyway, a reflection of increased unhappiness with air carriers, according to authors of a new study. Despite better performance by...

KARLOVY VARY, Czech Republic — We had been collecting frequent-flier points for years. My husband, Keith, and I thought that, yes, of course, we would use them. We would fly around the world. Business class. Maybe next year. Queen Latifah shoved...

Nine people have filed to run for four open seats on the seven-member Wheaton Warrenville Community Unit School District 200 board. One of the four incumbent trustees, Andy Johnson, a former president of the board who had served on the board since 1997,...

PARIS -- A French appeals court Thursday overturned Continental Airlines' conviction for manslaughter in the July 2000 crash of a Concorde jet that killed 113 people. [Updated 9:28 a.m. Nov. 29: But it upheld a civil judgment that metal from a...

Despite its enduring quirks, Key West is light-years removed from the escapist island that awaited a failed country songwriter who pulled into town a penniless nobody in the 1970s. That was Jimmy Buffett, of course, whose Key West-inspired 1977 hit...

I have to sleep sometime, and when I do I miss something. The auto industry is always throwing curve balls at me, and I spend a lot of time keeping them all in the air as I try to be a one-stop car reporter. First, let's talk about the Presidential...

HEMPSTEAD, New York -- While President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney were ostensibly responding to questions from uncommitted voters at a town hall-style debate on Tuesday, they found plenty of opportunities to attack each other...