FAA investigating Southwest over parts, repairs

Federal officials say a maintenance company hired by Southwest Airlines used unapproved parts for repairs on some jets. The parts will have to be replaced, but they are not considered an immediate safety threat and regulators will let Southwest keep flying the planes for 10 days while it decides how to fix the problem. Southwest [...]

Airlines stocks rise

Airline stocks rose modestly at midday Tuesday, gliding upward on gains in the broader stock indexes as investors recovered from the previous day’s sell-off. An analyst at UBS raised his target prices on airline stocks, saying that July and August revenue at the carriers was a bit better than he had expected. The Amex Airline [...]

Southwest Airlines rolls out fare sale

Southwest Airlines Co. announced a fare sale to fill seats during the slow fall and winter seasons, but it blacked out many days around the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Southwest said some seats on a few routes would sell for as little as $59 each way. The fares apply to fights from Sept. 9 through [...]

Republic Airways wins bid for Frontier, beats Southwest

Republic Airways Holdings won the bankruptcy court auction for Frontier Airlines on Thursday, buying the Denver-based carrier for almost $108.8 million after Southwest Airlines Co.’s rival bid was rejected. Southwest said its $170 million bid was deemed unacceptable because the carrier would not back down from a requirement that its pilots and Frontier’s work out [...]

215 Delta Air Lines pilots agree to retire

A small number of Delta Air Lines Inc. pilots — just 215 — have agreed to retire as part of a company incentive program designed to reduce the number of pilots to cut costs, according to a union tally disclosed in a memo to members Thursday. Of 12,379 pilots at Delta, some 9,400 were eligible [...]

Paws up: All-pet airline hits skies

One trip for their Jack Russell terrier in a plane’s cargo hold was enough to convince Alysa Binder and Dan Wiesel that owners needed a better option to get their pets from one city to another. On Tuesday, the first flight for the husband-and-wife team’s Pet Airways, the first-ever all-pet airline, took off from Republic [...]

Southwest checks planes after hole forces landing

Southwest Airlines Co. inspected about 200 planes overnight after a football-sized hole opened up in the passenger cabin of a jet in flight, forcing an emergency landing in West Virginia. Travelers on the Boeing 737 aircraft could see through the 1-foot-by-1-foot hole that appeared during the flight Monday. The cabin lost pressure, but no one [...]