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The changes will amount to the biggest ever at Southwest, which is the original low-cost airline but is now well into middle age and suffering from...
They will give more details at an investor meeting Thursday about dumping so-called open seating, charging a premium for the best seats, and launching...
Southwest will cut 58 flights per day and reduce its presence at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport from 18 to 11 gates, according to...
On picket lines in the Pacific Northwest, strikers said the company’s latest offer wasn't good enough.
The union complained that Boeing publicized its latest offer to 33,000 striking workers without first bargaining with union negotiators.
The decision to clear the way for the airlines to merge stands in contrast to the administration’s opposition to previous deals. The DOJ...
Boeing says it's considering temporary layoffs to save cash during the strike by machinists
The strike by 33,000 machinists was set to begin at one minute after midnight Friday morning.
Although the bargaining committee that negotiated the contract recommended ratification, IAM District 751 President Jon Holden predicted earlier this...
Southwest said Tuesday that six directors will leave the board in November and it plans to appoint four new ones, who could include candidates put...
Robert “Kelly” Ortberg is planting a symbolic flag in the ground back in the Pacific Northwest.
The increase in cases was disclosed Wednesday during a National Transportation Safety Board hearing into the accident, which happened during an Alaska...
A Boeing worker at the factory in Renton, Wash. said Boeing's safety culture is “garbage. Nobody's accountable.”
Federal investigators began questioning officials from Boeing and its key supplier on Tuesday to understand how the Jan. 5 accident occurred.
The NTSB's two-day hearing revolves around the Jan. 5 accident that left a gaping hole in the side of an Alaska Airlines jet.
“He is a deeply respected leader in the aerospace industry, and brings more hope for a better future than the company has enjoyed in decades,”...
The deal must be approved by a judge and would require Boeing to invest at least $455 million in new compliance systems.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg spoke to Delta CEO Ed Bastian about the airline’s high number of cancellations.
“We know that adversaries and bad actors will try to exploit events like this,” CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said.
American, Delta, United, Spirit and Allegiant Air had all their flights grounded Friday after a widespread software outage.
Federal prosecutors now accuse Boeing of failing to live up to terms of the 2021 settlement.
The airline's second-quarter profit dropped 29% due to higher costs and discounting of base-level fares across the industry.
Federal prosecutors gave Boeing the choice of entering a guilty plea and paying a fine or face a trial on the felony criminal charge of conspiracy...
American Airlines said Sunday is expected to be its busiest day of the entire summer; it plans more than 6,500 flights.
The families want to put Boeing on trial.
“This is just a reworking of letting Boeing off the hook."
The tone of the hearing was set when the panel released a 204-page report with new allegations from a whistleblower who said he worries that...
It said Jordan and former CEO Gary Kelly, now the airline's executive chairman, "are not up to the task of modernizing Southwest.”
Federal Aviation Administration chief Mike Whitaker said the plan is comprehensive and includes encouraging Boeing employees to speak up about safety...
The Federal Aviation Administration required the company to produce a turnaround plan after one of its jetliners suffered a blowout of a fuselage...
“Airports are going to be more packed than we have seen in 20 years,” AAA spokesperson Aixa Diaz said.
AAA predicts this will be the busiest start-of-summer weekend in nearly 20 years, with 43.8 million people expected to travel at least 50 miles from...
In a letter, Glenn Leon, head of the DOJ criminal division's fraud section, said Boeing failed to make promised changes to detect and prevent...
Boeing reached a $2.5 billion settlement with the Justice Department in January 2021 to avoid prosecution.
The funding bill aims to make it easier to hire air traffic controllers amid a shortage of 3,000.
About a dozen relatives of passengers who died in the second crash met with government officials for several hours Wednesday in Washington.
The UAW has accused the German carmaker of violating U.S. and German labor laws with aggressive anti-union tactics, which the company denies.
Back-to-back hearings Wednesday will examine allegations of major safety failures at the embattled aircraft manufacturer.
These issues are "a violation of passenger rights, and we are seeing far too many cases of that,” said DOT secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Two Boeing engineering executives went into detail Monday to describe how panels are fitted together, particularly on the 787 Dreamliner.
The aircraft maker detailed its latest steps to correct lapses in quality in a memo to employees from Stan Deal, president of Boeing's commercial...
Federal investigators said they confirmed pilots' account of a brief failure after a landng at Newark Liberty International Airport last month.
It's "yet another victory for the Justice Department’s work on behalf of American consumers,” Attorney General Merrick Grland said.
The comments were contained in a report Monday to the FAA which Congress ordered in 2020.
Without the bolts, nothing prevented the panel from sliding upward and detaching from “stop pads” that secured it to the airframe.
“In order to have a truly safe system, it seems to me that we can't rely on the manufacturers themselves to be their own watchdogs,” Rep. Colin...
The production limits will apply only to the Max, of which there are currently two models, the 8 and the 9. Boeing builds about 30 a month but has...
United CEO Scott Kirby said that Boeing needs “real action” to restore its previous reputation for quality.
Cowen's Helane Becker says it "sounds alarmist and harsh," but the likely scenario is a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, followed by a liquidation.
The FAA notified Boeing of the probe in a letter, giving the aircraft maker 10 business days to present evidence or statements in its defense.