The American air travel system has been under increasing stress in recent years, most notably in a series of near tragedies ...

""DCA is one of the most demanding airports in the world. It also has what’s known as ‘helicopter alley’ with hundreds of ...

Southwest's CEO Bob Jordan said "our hearts go out" to people on the American Airlines flight involved in Wednesday night’s ...

Authorities have switched to a recovery mission in the Potomac River following a midair collision between an American Eagle ...

In Nevada, the deadliest plane crash was in 1964. A four-engine Constellation operated by California’s Paradise Airlines traveling from Oakland crashed in a mountain near Lake Tahoe after two failed ...

Southwest Airlines said Thursday that it faces higher costs in 2025 as inflation persists, but it managed to swing to a ...

US airlines had gone 16 years without a fatal crash until Wednesday night. But as impressive as that safety record had been, ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found no evidence of foul play and blamed the crash on errors by the pilot, who failed to retract the plane’s spoilers, or air brakes, at the critical ...

Delta, United, American and Southwest generated about $8 billion in profit on $200 billion in revenue last year, but the airlines all lost money flying passengers.

A massive search operation is underway after a passenger aircraft carrying 64 people collided midair with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, DC, ...

Some 67 people — including three soldiers and more than a dozen figure skaters — were killed after a collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter at Ronald Reagan ...

Before Wednesday's crash between a passenger jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter, the last fatal crash involving a U.S. commercial airline occurred in 2009 in New York.