— -- 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- The pilot of an airliner stranded overnight on an airport tarmac in Minnesota pleaded unsuccessfully for her 47 passengers to be allowed to get off and ...

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.

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 ...

What should have been a two-and-a-half-hour trip from Houston to Minneapolis took a very bad turn last Friday, when the plane was diverted to Rochester, Minnesota, and the 47 passengers on board were ...