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The CEO of American Airlines, who got $12.3 million in compensation last year, will stop drawing a salary and instead be paid entirely in company stock.

Authorities say a SkyWest Airlines flight from Chicago has made an emergency landing in Buffalo, New York, and at least one passenger lost consciousness.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is proposing major changes to Boston's public transit system after pounding snowstorms this winter slowed the nation's oldest subway system to a crawl, frustrating hundreds of thousands of riders.

An Arab-Jewish woman who was strip-searched at a Detroit-area airport has reached a settlement in a lawsuit filed on her behalf.

The nation's largest trucking industry group wants the government to get moving on a rule requiring speed-limiters on big rigs.

A woman has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Southwest Airlines, claiming crew members mistook her husband's medical emergency for unruly behavior aboard a California flight.

The Transportation Security Administration is tightening security rules for airline and airport workers in the wake of a criminal case in which an Atlanta baggage handler was accused of smuggling guns on commercial jets, Homeland Security Jeh Johnson said Monday.

Shares of some top airlines companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Delta Air rose $.49 or 1.1 percent, to $45.25.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 10 a.m.: Delta Air rose $.50 or 1.1 percent, to $45.26.

Shares of some top airlines companies were down at the close of trading: Delta Air fell $.23 or .5 percent, to $44.76.

New Yorkers may soon be able to count calories burned and miles traveled while pedaling Citi Bikes, the popular bicycle-sharing program with a troubled history that is undergoing a major overhaul under new leadership.

A construction worker has fallen 80 feet to his death at a Philadelphia building site near the city's main railroad station.

To improve airline safety, maybe we need to remove the pilots.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 1 p.m.: Delta Air rose $.54 or 1.2 percent, to $44.74.

SkyWest Airlines has announced it will soon offer jet flights between West Yellowstone, Montana, and Salt Lake City to connect passengers with Delta flights.

Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL) on Wednesday reported first-quarter profit of $746 million.

Omaha authorities say one person is dead and another remains trapped inside a railroad tank car after a reported explosion Tuesday.

The misadventure of a baggage handler who fell asleep in the cargo hold of a jetliner should be a warning for airlines to improve security procedures, safety experts said Tuesday.

Ford's European business saw stronger sales in the first quarter as falling unemployment and cheaper energy put more money in car buyers' pockets.

The shrinking space on airplanes is surely uncomfortable but a government advisory committee is starting to look into whether the lack of legroom also might be dangerous for passengers' health and safety.