Transportation

Stories moving the markets and shaking up the world.

Passengers had to evacuate from a British Airways flight Monday after smoke filled the cabin.

Taxpayers are contributing $750 million toward construction costs.

FedEx and UPS are turning to lower-paid workers on the weekend in order to keep up with Amazon.

Celebrities attending Google Camp to discuss solutions for climate change have been seen as hypocritical by many.

The broader risk analyses and simulator scenarios, some details of which haven’t been reported before, show the lengths to which leaders of the Federal Aviation Administration, in coordination with their foreign counterparts, are going to verify the safety of the MAX fleet before allowing the planes to fly again.

Ferrari earlier announced that second-quarter profits rose 14%, driven by its Portofino and 812 Superfast models and despite a relatively unfavorable model mix that saw North American sales slip.

The truck driver shortage means pay is going up since the industry can't find enough qualified workers to keep up with demand.

GasBuddy's head of petroleum analysis, Patrick Dehaan, thinks gasoline prices will lower by 50 cents per gallon until the end of the year.

Irish airline Ryanair is expecting delays with Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft to slow its growth next year.

United Airlines is working with biometrics company clear to bring its retina and fingerprint screening facilities to more airports.

Half of the department’s announced projects are listed as “small projects” while the other half are listed as “large projects.”