WASHINGTON - The Obama administration has opened an investigation into whether consumer protection regulations were violated last week when 47 passengers were stranded overnight on an airport tarmac ...

— -- The nightmarish flight delay at Rochester, Minn., earlier this month has turned into a display of finger pointing at the highest levels of the U.S. airline industry. Transportation Secretary ...

A few weeks after the Continental Flight 3407 crash outside Buffalo, N.Y., Scott Maurer, father of Lorin Maurer, sat down at his computer one Sunday morning and began to write. He wrote to every U.S.

What happened: The U.S. Department of Transportation fined three airlines for their roles in the stranding of passengers overnight at the Rochester airport. Why it matters: It was the first time ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Continental Express Flight 2816 smelled like diapers. It had no food and a full toilet. Its 47 passengers had been stranded on a tarmac in southern Minnesota since after midnight.

Federal officials are fining three airlines a total of $175,000 for their roles in the stranding of passengers overnight on an airport tarmac in Rochester this summer. "I’m glad to hear that there are ...

Continental Airlines and Delta Air Lines top the list of July flights with the longest on-the-ground delays of planes with passengers aboard, according to a monthly U.S. Transportation Department ...

Maintenance crews believe vaporizing de-icing fluid was responsible for a reported smoke condition that forced a Continental Express flight to land shortly after takeoff today at Albany International ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL), the world's fifth largest airline, today announced it will launch daily nonstop flights ...