John Schmeltzer

Not everything is as it appears, especially when it comes to the flu bug that has bitten American Airlines pilots in record numbers. More than 25 percent of the airline's...

Federal transportation officials called Monday for lifting the cap on hourly flights at O'Hare International Airport, a 30-year-old limit that nearby suburbs view as one of their strongest safeguards against...

In a move certain to further antagonize noise-weary residents, the Clinton administration on Monday will propose eliminating the rule that limits the number of flights at O'Hare International Airport and...

The Transportation Department may be postponing a ruling on the near-merger between Northwest Airlines and Continental Airlines. But Congress' watchdog, the General Accounting Office, is weighing in, and the airlines...

Don't ever think that the landing and takeoff slots at the nation's four slot-controlled airports--O'Hare International, LaGuardia and Kennedy International in New York, and Ronald Reagan National in Washington--aren't valuable...

Sixteen years ago, a leery Soviet military spotted Korean Air Lines Flight 007 invading its airspace on its way from Anchorage to Seoul. With the Cold War at its zenith...

The days of airlines losing luggage may finally be numbered. Though too late for the thousands of passengers at O'Hare International Airport whose bags were lost during the blizzard of...

Continental Airlines and Northwest Airlines on Thursday cemented their virtual marriage despite efforts by the U.S. Justice Department to break it up. The airlines began marketing each other's flights to...

Trans World Airlines Inc., the odd man out in the airline alliances that were announced last year, is seeking help from the White House to repeal antitrust immunity given to...

Executives of United Airlines said this week they will install bag-limiting templates on X-ray machines at more than 40 airports this month after the successful launch of the barriers at...