American Eagle Airlines has been handed the first fines to be meted out since an April 2010 rule change by the Transportation Department limiting tarmac delays to three hours. more ›

Something was in the air yesterday: passengers acting like fools on airline flights. more ›

The National Transportation Safety Bureau has found subsurface tears in three more Southwest Airlines planes similar to the one that ripped a hole in the fuselage of a Boeing 737 in flight and forced an emergency landing last week. Since then, Southwest has canceled over 300 flights across the country and pulled the remaining 79 of its 737s from its fleet. more ›

With more than 20-30 inches of snow falling hard along the East Coast (Gothamist dubbed it "Blizzargeddon"), travel plans throughout the country are being thrown all out of whack. more ›

The timing couldn't be worse: as people prepare to leave town for the holiday weekend, a computer glitch has left United Airlines at a standstill at O'Hare. The glitch is preventing passengers from checking in and keeping flights grounded. A spokeswoman has said that United flights are landing but taking a while to proceed to the correct gate. A WGN helicopter flew by and the news crew estimated a line of around 2,000 passengers extending outside the United terminal. On their website, United has issued the following statement: more ›

Virgin America is petitioning the FAA for two gates at O'Hare for a planned eight flights a day, four to San Fransisco and four to LA. The company expects the FAA to make its ruling by June and to start flying into and out of Chicago around November if things go their way. more ›

Southwest Airlines is "honoring" Illinois with an eyeball-rapingly hideous plane called "Illinois One." It's meant to resemble the Illinois state flag. more ›

ATA filed for bankruptcy yesterday and completely shut down all operations at 4am today, leaving around 10,000 passengers SOL and laying off more than 2,000 employees. more ›