Two parents, their daughter and her friend were killed when the Cessna 210 they were in crashed after takeoff from Westchester County Airport in White Plains, NY.
An estimated 4,000 Southwest Airlines employees officially welcomed the Boeing 737-800 into their fleet on Wednesday during a celebratory event at their Dallas headquarters.
European airlines on Wednesday were forced to again cancel hundreds of flights while experts say the ash cloud coverage from Grímsvötn is expected to soon dissipate.
Delta Air Lines announced on Tuesday that it had reached a deal with Southwest Airlines to take delivery of all 88 Boeing 717 aircraft in the AirTran fleet should Delta's pilots ratify a new collective bargaining agreement.