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Shares of some top airlines companies were mixed at the close of trading: Delta Air fell $.01 or percent, to $38.06.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 1 p.m.: Delta Air rose $.13 or .3 percent, to $38.20.

Airline travel requires passengers to make a leap of faith, entrusting their lives to pilots, airlines, air traffic controllers and others who regulate air travel.

A vintage rail company that transports hundreds of thousands of tourists a year along the route of the historic Klondike Gold Rush intends to resume operations Friday, two days after a derailment left 23 people with minor injuries, officials said.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 10 a.m.: Delta Air rose $.65 or 1.7 percent, to $38.72.

Nearly 300 passengers perish when their plane is shot out of the sky.

Operating costs for the U.S. Navy's newest ships will decline and "become more normal" over time, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Thursday.

Southwest Airlines is reporting a record profit for the second quarter, more than doubling what it earned a year ago.

Shares of some top airlines companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Delta Air fell $.30 or .8 percent, to $38.85.

Profit and revenue are up at American Airlines, and the company will share some of the gains with shareholders.

Nothing spilled when three tanker cars in an oil train from North Dakota derailed at a rail yard early Thursday, but it alarmed environmentalists.

In some spots, the train tracks rise 40 feet above some of Virginia's priciest real estate, held aloft by massive concrete trestles.

Fortune 500 packaging company Sealed Air Corp. will consolidate management operations from several states and relocate its New Jersey headquarters to the Charlotte area, where it plans to employ nearly 1,300 jobs in three years.

Donald Trump hopes to bring his signature brand of glitz to the nation's capital with a new luxury hotel in the city's third-tallest building.

Shares of some top airlines companies were up at the close of trading: Delta Air rose $1.47 or 3.9 percent, to $39.15.

Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL) on Wednesday reported earnings that climbed by 17 percent in its second quarter, and topped analysts' expectations.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 10 a.m.: Delta Air rose $.39 or 1.0 percent, to $37.54.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 1 p.m.: Delta Air rose $.52 or 1.4 percent, to $37.67.

Malaysia Airlines is in uncharted territory after the disappearance of Flight 370 in March with 239 people aboard was followed this week by the downing of another of its jets, carrying 298 people, over Ukraine.

The possibility that the civilian jetliner downed over war-torn eastern Ukraine with nearly 300 people onboard was hit by a missile could have profound consequences for the world's airlines.