Transportation

A National Transportation Safety Board member says a train that collided with a stalled passenger train in Arkansas was coming to help the train and was apparently going too fast.

Demands are rising in Washington for the U.S. to ban travelers from countries in West Africa, but the Obama administration is resisting and says the screening measures already in place for travelers are more effective.

Shares of some top airlines companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Delta Air rose $1.42 or 4.3 percent, to $34.74.

Shares of some top airlines companies were up at the close of trading: Delta Air rose $.94 or 2.9 percent, to $33.32.

Shares of some top airlines companies are mixed at 10 a.m.: Delta Air rose $.78 or 2.4 percent, to $33.16.

Frontier Airlines says it is notifying passengers on seven flights that they either flew with a nurse who later tested positive for Ebola or on a later flight using the same plane.

The head of the Transportation Security Administration, John Pistole, says he will retire at the end of this year.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 1 p.m.: Delta Air rose $1.08 or 3.3 percent, to $33.46.

Delta Air Lines Inc. said Thursday that third-quarter profit fell 74 percent on one-time costs such as retiring older planes, although the results excluding those items beat expectations.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 10 a.m.: Delta Air rose $.20 or .6 percent, to $32.99.

A Dallas-bound American Airlines flight that departed from San Francisco International Airport turned back and made an emergency landing after some of the cabin's wall panels cracked loose, aviation and airlines officials said.

Shares of some top airlines companies are down at 1 p.m.: Delta Air fell $.71 or 2.2 percent, to $32.20.

Engineers who operate commuter trains in the Philadelphia area have reached a tentative contract with the regional transit agency.

A Dallas-bound American Airlines flight that departed from San Francisco International Airport turned around and made an emergency landing Monday at SFO after some of the cabin's wall panels cracked loose, aviation and airlines officials said.

Shares of some top airlines companies are down at 10 a.m.: Delta Air fell $.53 or 1.6 percent, to $32.38.

A new era and increased competition has begun in air travel in the Dallas area.

An airline says passengers are getting lost and missing their flights because of a lack of road signs helping them find an out-of-the way Hawaii airport.

The head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority says traffic control staff at the Metro-North Railroad worked seven days straight for weeks when several accidents, including one fatal, disrupted commutes in Connecticut and New York last year.

When Southwest Airlines recently introduced a new paint job for its planes, a senior executive joked that at 43 years old and being from Dallas, it was time for the airline to get a face-lift.

A refinery in northwest Washington state says it will no longer accept any volatile North Dakota crude oil unless it arrives on newer-model tank cars.