Transportation

An industry trade group says the holiday travel period will be busier than last year for U.S. airlines.

Airbus and Boeing are among the major plane makers that have made big deals in 2017, signaling strength in the global aviation market.

Civil-rights activists are praising American Airlines' plan to train employees to counteract bias in treating passengers, but the NAACP is still warning African-Americans about flying on the airline.

After a snafu in its pilot scheduling system last week causing many fliers to worry about their holiday travel itineraries, American Airlines and its pilots’ union reached a deal to avoid cancelling thousands of flights.

Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya is set to face an extradition hearing in London that should determine whether he is sent back to India to face money laundering allegations related to the collapse of several of his businesses.

American Airlines has reached an agreement with its pilots' union to avoid canceling thousands of flights during the holiday season.

Seeking to bolster the ailing U.S. Postal Service, federal regulators moved on Friday to allow bigger jumps to stamp prices beyond the rate of inflation, a move that could eventually add millions more dollars to companies' shipping rates and consumer costs.

___ Top Republican claims enough votes for Senate OK of tax bill WASHINGTON (AP) — A $1.4 trillion tax bill written by Republicans is headed toward passage after some last-minute wrangling.

ber's CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, who was installed in the top job in August, disclosed the data breach last month after learning of it himself, saying that "none of this should have happened."

Under pressure from the NAACP, American Airlines is promising changes in the way it trains employees and handles passenger complaints about racially biased treatment.

Alaska Airlines said Thursday it's investigating a claim that flight attendants allowed a passenger to sexually harass a former Facebook executive on a flight.

An aggressive plan to repair and improve New York's aging subway system in the next 15 years and a proposal to turn a wide swath of New Jersey's Meadowlands into a national park to help combat sea level rise are among recommendations in a master plan released Thursday by an urban planning think tank.

General Motors Co. said Thursday it expects to deploy self-driving taxis and delivery vehicles in big U.S. cities by 2019.

The Latest on recommendations by the Regional Plan Association to curtail weekday, overnight subway service in New York to accelerate repairs to the problem-plagued system (all times local): 12:30 p.m.

A computer glitch at American Airlines allowed all pilots to schedule vacation days during the week of Christmas, potentially impacting thousands of flights and even more travelers during one of the busiest travel times of the year.

Bali's international airport is expected to reopen although a volcano on the island is still erupting.

The Latest on a rumbling volcano on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali (all times local): 7 a.m.

Uber Technologies Inc’s former chief executive and some board members knew of a letter alleging employees had stolen trade secrets, but the document was withheld from a high-stakes lawsuit.