In a move that remains mostly symbolic, US Airways has made a deal, it said, with three unions at American Airlines to support a possible merger of the airlines.
Airlines and airports are testing a guidance system that could reduce congestion and fuel consumption by allowing planes to take a more direct route to the runway.
Airlines and airports are testing a guidance system that could reduce congestion and fuel consumption by allowing planes to take a more direct route to the runway.
Despite rising fares and multiple fees, carriers have managed to keep their planes full. But there are signs the situation may cool after a hot summer vacation season.
When Delta acquired Northwest three years ago, executives did not fully anticipate the thousands of tiny details that can make the difference between a successful merger and a failed one.
Southwest has become one of the biggest airlines and is turning 40 next year, but it is clinging to a corporate culture of Halloween parties and rapping flight attendants.
Air fares have marched steadily upward in recent months and are now close to pre-recession levels — and that’s not even counting all the new fees that airlines have introduced lately.
The airline, which said it was beginning to see the benefits of its 2008 merger with Northwest Airlines, indicated that it expected a profit in the second quarter.
The industry has a long history of botched mergers, given the difficulty of bringing together different flight networks, aircraft models and distinct cultures.
Glenn F. Tilton is seeking once more to find salvation for his company in a tie-up with a competing airline. But is he just trying to make the best of a weak hand?
Tehran is playing its hand as if its untapped oil reserves give it a trump card. But the longer the nuclear stalemate drags on, the more that strategy is in doubt.
Tehran is playing its hand as if its untapped oil reserves give it a trump card. But the longer the nuclear stalemate drags on, the more that strategy is in doubt.
The Washington Post’s publisher wrote that “firm parameters” had not been followed in planning private events with sponsors, officials and journalists.
The Obama administration wants to spend $150 billion to diversify energy sources by encouraging more renewable sources, but oil giants are hanging back.
The New York financier ran one of the nation’s most successful mutual funds but left Wall Street on a quixotic crusade to promote an epilepsy drug as a miracle cure-all.
OPEC is increasingly torn between its moderate members that can afford a period of lower oil prices and those countries that have become much more dependent on high prices.
The federal appeals court’s decision came after finding that the Interior Department had failed to conduct an environmental study before issuing the company’s drilling permit.
History suggests that OPEC will face a tough time propping up prices as oil consumption slows down and the world teeters on the edge of a global recession.
The Arctic Circle holds enough recoverable oil supplies to meet current world demand for nearly three years, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey forecast.
A pre-eminent energy expert is to testify on Wednesday before lawmakers that the suspicion that investors are a large cause for skyrocketing oil prices is misguided.
An Energy Department announcement that it would temporarily suspend a program to fill the nation’s strategic oil stocks failed to break the rally in oil prices, which hit another record Friday.
A dozen oil companies agreed to pay $423 million in cash plus clean-up costs to settle litigation over groundwater contamination from the gasoline additive, MTBE.
Mr. McConnell was a self-made steel magnate and sports enthusiast who borrowed $600 against his car to establish what became a multibillion-dollar company.
Mr. McConnell was a self-made steel magnate and sports enthusiast who borrowed $600 against his car to establish what became a multibillion-dollar company.
Oil prices surged to a new high on Tuesday, reaching $114 a barrel, as scattered pipeline interruptions and a weak dollar agitated a tight global market.