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New claims have been filed in the legal battle between Southwest Airlines and the City of San Antonio over where Southwest’s gates will land amid growth at the San Antonio International Airport.
Pilots on a Southwest Airlines flight attempting to land at Chicago’s Midway Airport were forced to climb back into the sky to avoid another aircraft crossing the runway.
The Transportation Department is stepping up enforcement of persistent flight delays with a civil lawsuit against Southwest Airlines and a fine against Frontier Airlines.
Southwest Airlines says it's not filling some jobs and summer internships this year as the company looks to lower costs.
Several flights between the San Antonio International Airport and Dallas airports were canceled on Thursday morning as a winter storm moved through Texas.
Alaska Airlines says it will launch service from Seattle to Tokyo and Seoul next year as part of a plan to boost international flying in the next several years.
U.S. stocks edged back from their records as Wall Street counted down to a big jobs report that’s coming on Friday.
The Biden administration is on its way out of power, but that's not ending the arguments between the administration and airlines that think they are being over-regulated.
California is partnering with a major airline trade group to increase the availability of sustainable aviation fuels in the state.
Investigators say that air traffic controllers cleared one plane to take off after telling pilots of another plane to cross the same runway in Nashville last month.
President Joe Biden is warning airlines and other companies not to overcharge people who are trying to get out of the path of Hurricane Milton.
Southwest Airlines failed to stop a new lease agreement that would keep it out of the new terminal being built at San Antonio International Airport.
The airline filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court against the city and San Antonio International Airport Director of Airports Jesus Saenz.
The airline filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court against the city and San Antonio International Airport Director of Airports Jesus Saenz.
Southwest Airlines is planning to cut about one-third of its flights in Atlanta next year to save money, and employees affected by the change are furious.
An airline operating agreement and a series of terminal leases were approved today in City Council A’s session, but Southwest Airlines, a Dallas-based airline, said they were not in favor of its terms.
A hedge fund that's been urging Southwest Airlines to dump its CEO and chairman says it has acquired enough of the company's stock to call a special meeting of shareholders.
Alaska Air is one step closer to acquiring Hawaiian Airlines after the U.S. Department of Justice chose not to challenge the $1.9 billion deal that the carriers say will create a company better able to serve travelers.
“Move fast and break things,” a high-tech mantra popularized 20 years ago by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, was supposed to be a rallying cry for game-changing innovation.
Federal officials are investigating an incident in which a Southwest Airlines jet flew as low as 150 feet over water while it was still about 5 miles from its intended landing spot in Tampa, Florida.
Southwest Airlines has adopted a ‘poison pill’ following activist investor Elliott Investment Management taking a significant stake in the company.
Southwest Airlines says a key revenue ratio will be weaker than expected in the second quarter because of changes in how consumers book travel.
Investigators say a Southwest Airlines plane suffered damage to parts of the structure after it went into a “Dutch roll” during a flight last month.
Federal officials are investigating an unusual rolling motion during the flight of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max.
The CEO of Southwest Airlines says he is not resigning in the face of pressure from a hedge fund that wants him fired.
Activist shareholder Elliott Investment Management has taken a $1.9 billion stake in Southwest Airlines and wants to get rid of the CEO.
A judge's order that three attorneys for Southwest Airlines get religious liberty training has been put on hold by a federal appeals court.
Federal investigators say an air traffic’s controller’s faulty assumption nearly caused a runway collision at a Texas airport last year.
Southwest Airlines has gone back to federal court in hopes of reversing an $800,000 award to a flight attendant who says she was fired for her anti-abortion views.
Southwest Airlines flight attendants have ratified a new contract that will boost their pay by about one-third over four years.
The Federal Aviation Administration says a Southwest Airlines jet leaving Denver was forced to land after the engine cover fell off and struck the wing flap during takeoff.
Federal officials are investigating whether a Southwest Airlines flight veered off course and flew over the air traffic control tower at LaGuardia Airport last month.
Shares of Southwest are falling in Tuesday premarket trading as the airline said that it plans to reduce capacity and reevaluate its full-year financial outlook because of fewer expected aircraft deliveries from it supplier, Boeing.
Shares of JetBlue are up more than 18% in Tuesday afternoon trading as activist investor Carl Icahn took an almost 10% stake in the airline.
Boeing says it is withdrawing a request for a safety exemption needed to certify a new model of its 737 Max airliner.
Conditions have been mostly nice for travelers flying ahead of and on Christmas Day, but some naughty disruptions plagued those flying with Southwest Airlines again this year.
Stacker compiled a list of the most common domestic flights from San Antonio International using data from the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
Southwest Airlines and its pilots reached a tentative labor agreement after three-and-a-half years of negotiations, the last of the four major airlines to reach a deal with pilots.
Southwest Airlines is paying $140 million to settle a government investigation over a meltdown last holiday season that led to thousands of canceled flights.
Southwest Airlines’s “customers of size” policy is getting attention this week thanks to a TikTok video that explains how plus-size travelers can obtain an extra seat for free.
Five years after a fatal accident, federal officials are proposing modifications and additional inspections to the engine housing of nearly 2,000 Boeing jets in the U.S. The proposal by the Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday largely follows recommendations that Boeing made to airlines in July.
Flight attendants at Southwest Airlines are saying no to a contract offer hammered out by their union and the airline.
The federal government may be preparing to penalize Southwest Airlines for thousands of flight cancellations that affected more than 2 million travelers last December.
Southwest is limiting a popular service that lets passengers jump ahead in the airline's unusual boarding system to get a better chance of scoring a good seat.
A court watchdog has filed a complaint against the federal judge who ordered “religious-liberty training” for a trio of Southwest Airlines lawyers.
A judge's order requiring “religious-liberty training” by a conservative Christian group is stirring debate among legal scholars.
A federal judge is heaping sanctions on Southwest Airlines for, he says, failing to follow his orders in a case involving a fired flight attendant's free-speech rights.
Hackers gained personal information about thousands of people who applied to become pilots at American and Southwest airlines.
Southwest Airlines is making progress in contract talks with one union but suffering a setback with another.
Two airliners aborted their landings at San Francisco International Airport last week after pilots spotted a Southwest Airlines jet taxiing across the runways on which they were going to land.
Most U.S. airlines lost money in the first quarter, traditionally the weakest time of year for travel, but they are all eagerly looking ahead to a summer of full planes and high fares.
The Federal Aviation Administration paused all Southwest Airlines flights for a short time Tuesday morning at the airline’s request.
Airlines at the San Antonio International Airport are adding more nonstop and daily flights to travel destinations like Los Angeles, New York City and Cancun.
The Flight Compensation Regulation in the European Union requires airlines to compensate passengers an amount from 250 to 600 euros for cancellations or delays of at least two hours.
The Federal Aviation Administration says a FedEx cargo airplane attempting to land at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport had to change course after a second plane was cleared to depart from the same runway.
Winter weather has brought ice to a wide swath of the United States, causing the cancellation of more than 1,700 flights nationwide, snarling highway traffic in Arkansas and seriously injuring two law officers in Texas.
The federal government is investigating whether Southwest Airlines knowingly scheduling more flights than it could handle in December, when it ended up canceling nearly 17,000 flights.
With its flights running on a roughly normal schedule, Southwest Airlines is now turning its attention to repairing its damaged reputation after it canceled 15,000 flights around Christmas and left holiday travelers stranded.
Southwest Airlines is returning to a relatively normal flight schedule as the focus shifts to making things right with what could be well more than a million passengers who missed family connections or flights home during the holidays, and many of whom are still missing luggage.
On Wednesday, another 2,500 Southwest Airlines flights were cancelled and now a lot of travelers are asking, where is my luggage?
Families hoping to catch a Southwest Airlines flight after days of cancellations, missing luggage and missed family connections are suffering through another wave of scrubbed flights.
Families hoping to catch a Southwest Airlines flight after days of cancellations, missing luggage and missed family connections are suffering through another wave of scrubbed flights.
Stocks are mostly lower Tuesday afternoon after the long holiday weekend, adding to the market’s recent losses as Wall Street counts down its final days of a painful year for investors.
