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More than 2,000 Canadian lobsters on a round-about trip to European New Year dinner tables fell vict

The nation's major airlines are ready to end their triple mileage programs - but only if all the car

At a major West Coast airport, concourses are nearly deserted, passenger tunnels at aircraft gates r

Fresh from successful organizing drives at two all-cargo contract/charter airlines, the Teamsters un

Delta Air Lines Inc. has a reputation as a pretty conservative company. During the rough-and-tumble

More than half of the overseas airports deemed at risk to terrorism in 1986 and 1987 had inadequate

TUNIS AIR ORDERS 2 BOEING JETLINERSSEATTLE - Tunis Air, the flag carrier of Tunisia, has ord

The pilots' union at Eastern Air Lines won a round in its legal battle with management when a federa

While X-ray machines are severely limited in keeping modern explosives off airliners, researchers sa

The new year should be a good one for U.S. transportation companies, according to a new survey relea

Braniff Inc. has aircraft acquisition deals in the works that could more than double the Dallas-base

AMR Corp., parent of American Airlines Inc., said it plans to greatly increase its operations at Chi

The fee that the U.S. Postal Service pays for carrying a 100-pound sack of mail 1,000 miles is $29.

Airlines will soon be asked to replace rivets in more than 800 Boeing 727s that were made with what

Olympic Airways has signed an agreement worth $3.5 million to overhaul two aging 747 jumbo jets rece

Investigators have discovered a three-inch crack in the fuselage of an agingEastern Airlines 727 jet

HUGHES AIRCRAFT TO BUY HONEYWELL DIVISIONLOS ANGELES - Hughes Aircraft Co., a unit of GM Hug

McDonnell Douglas Corp. in January will begin flight tests with a second ultra high bypass engine.

Finnair, the flag carrier of Finland, is now carrying cargo between Miami and Helsinki on a weekly p

When one-third of the roof peeled off an Aloha Airlines jet flying at 24,000 feet eight months ago,

In an apparent move to deflect potential objections to its planned merger with The Flying Tiger Line

Canpar, the small parcel division of CP Trucks of Toronto, has introduced an expanded air courier se

A LITTLE OVER 11 YEARS AGO I wrote a parable in which I used allegorical creatures to predict that u

Saying a defiant stance would be counterproductive, the Massachusetts Port Authority directors tempo

Spot prices for jet fuel have jumped by as much as 18 percent since the OPEC ministerial meeting in

Profits at U.S. airlines are soaring to their highest level since the industry was deregulated 10 ye

Midway Airlines Inc., the Chicago-based carrier, reported revenue passenger- mile s for November inc

NON-UNION WORKERS ECONOMICAL FOR JALNEW YORK - Japan Air Lines believes it is saving $4 mill

A Lake Wylie, S.C., man is Gastonia's first airport administrator. Harry Henke, 64, a retired engine

CF AirFreight hopes to begin regular weekly jet freighter service to Asia early next year, a company

An Air India Boeing 747 flew to London last week without a single passenger after a six-hour delay p

IMPROPER LOADING BLAMED FOR '87 CRASHWASHINGTON - Improper loading of cargo, which changed t

The Boeing Co., and not the Federal Aviation Administration, asked for inspection delays that will p

The U.S. Department of Transportation flatly turned down the Massachusetts Port Authority's wide-ran

Investigators from the United Kingdom's Civil Aviation Authority proceeded directly to the weighty t

WHAT IT IS: Contracts to carry domestic airmail are big, profitable business for the nation's airlin

Japan's largest domestic airline, All Nippon Airways, finished the first six months of its fiscal ye

British Aerospace PLC announced Tuesday a major reorganization of its loss- making civil aircraft di

Atlantic States Association of Rail Shippers, annual meeting, Jan. 11. Philadelphia Hershey Hotel, P

Large airlines at four major airports would have to prove they make heavy use of their takeoff and l