NEW YORK  — Airline employees cannot be held liable if they misinterpret a passenger’s reference to a bomb as a threat when they report it to security authorities as long as their statements are not false on key facts, an ...

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NEW YORK — Airlines are struggling this year to get planes to the gate on time. The government said Thursday that 80.3 percent of flights by U.S. carriers arrived on time in January and February. That’s down from a record ...

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DALLAS — Get ready to spend more on travel. Airlines are raising ticket prices again after a four-month lull that coincided with falling fuel costs. Over the weekend, several big airlines matched United Airlines’ increase in base fares of up ...

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WASHINGTON — Being stuck for hours on a stuffy, stinky plane at the airport — every passenger’s nightmare — was supposed to be a thing of the past, thanks to the government’s threat of huge fines against the airlines. Well, ...

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NEW YORK — Irene is gone, and East Coast airports have reopened. But it will take at least several days to get hundreds of thousands of travelers stranded by the storm to their final destinations. Behind the scenes, ground crews ...

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JetBlue is offering more of its new unlimited flight pass from Boston after the original batch sold out in just one week. The pass costs $1,999 and is one of three options the New York airline offered last month for ...

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Soaring jet fuel prices are wiping out profits at the nation’s biggest airlines. The world’s biggest airline company, United Continental Holdings Inc., said Thursday that it lost $213 million in the first three months of the year after it paid ...

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The airlines’ latest effort to broadly raise U.S. fares by $10 per round trip has crumbled as discount carriers like Southwest Airlines decided not to raise their prices. After several successful price increases from December through February, two efforts to ...

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NEW YORK — JetBlue says the massive Northeastern blizzard in December cost it about $30 million in lost revenue. The New York airline said the storms, which hit JetBlue’s home base on Dec. 26, had reduced operating income in the ...

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JetBlue is trying to make a splash today as they open their first route from BWI airport, going to Boston. I wrote this week about how the Baltimore to Boston flight demonstrates the growing budget carrier competition at BWI, but ...

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