Southwest Airlines Reports 6.4% August Traffic Boost
Southwest Airlines Co. on Wednesday reported a 2.1 percentage points increase in load factor for the month of August, with a 6.4% rise in traffic compared to the same month last year.
That Was Fast: Boeing’s First South Carolina-Built 787 Rolls Down Assembly Line
Barely two years after construction began on a second Boeing 787 production facility in South Carolina, the first Dreamliner to be built there has reached its "weight on wheels" milestone.
JetBlue Flight Attendant Quits Spectacularly After Fight with Passenger
A jetBlue flight attendant has been arrested after fighting with a passenger and jumping out of his plane via an emergency slide in New York, but not before cursing out the entire plane on the PA and grabbing two beers out of t...
Video: Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Caught on Tape from Orlando Airport
Only the second known amateur video of the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy has surfaced 26 years after the disaster.
On This Day in Aviation History: December 9th
Trans-Canada Flight 810 crashes in 1956, United begins flights to Vietnam in 2004 exactly two years to-the-day after filing for bankruptcy. Delta receives the 1,000th 737 in 1983, MiG designer Artem Mikoyan dies in 1970, the fi...