U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said a representative of Mesaba Airlines improperly refused requests by the plane's captain and crew to let passengers off the plane. They ...

— -- 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 ...

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 in Rochester.

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 ...

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.

HOUSTON, June 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) flight this week is being crewed by Captain Dewey Lockwood and four of his relatives ...

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.

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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 ...