Transportation

Getting from New Jersey to Philadelphia to see Pope Francis might not be as cumbersome as officials had warned.

FedEx says it will raise a number of shipping rates in January, and will increase the surcharge on very large packages starting in November.

The governors of New York and New Jersey are asking the federal government to pay for half the cost of a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River.

Estonia is ready to create a new airline should the European Union rule that the existing national flag carrier illegally received state aid, a decision that would put it out of business.

Scandinavian Airlines says it will stop flying between the Norwegian city of Stavanger and Houston, Texas, because of "a severe decrease" in demand following a downturn in the oil industry.

An official says a damaged engine will be removed from a British Airways aircraft that aborted takeoff and caught fire on a Las Vegas airport runway, forcing 170 people to evacuate.

A massive drill has finished the job of boring a 4.5-mile tunnel hundreds of feet below the city in a project aimed at stopping water pollution.

In a bid to unclog Connecticut's notorious traffic jams, the governor has put forward a plan to rip up and widen two major highways, Interstates 84 and 95.

Baggage handlers, cabin cleaners and ramp workers employed by Alaska Airlines contractor Menzies Aviation have walked off the job at Sea-Tac International Airport.

Politicians in New York, New Jersey and Washington haven't figured out how they're going to pay for a new Hudson River rail tunnel — but work on the massive project has been going on for years.

U.S. airlines are posting better results for on-time performance and fewer cancelations but consumer complaints are still rising.

The new CEO of United Airlines faces a daunting list of problems he must fix, including late flights and technology that too often suffers embarrassing outages.

An Allegiant Air flight from Bismarck, North Dakota, made an unscheduled stop about 120 miles short of its Las Vegas destination, diverting to an airport in southern Utah for what the airline described on Tuesday as a possible maintenance issue.

Southwest is adding a lot of seats but managing to fill almost all of them.

New England's ports are reinventing themselves to compete with one another and from larger ones, but they were once legendary.

The U.S. Coast Guard says part of the Mississippi River has been closed as crews investigate and clean up an oil spill caused by the collision of two tow boats.

A company that ships oil through the Great Lakes pledged Thursday to keep heavy crude out of a pipeline in northern Michigan.