Big business rallied behind the gay marriage cause on Thursday as the U.S. Supreme Court scheduled oral arguments for April 28 on the contentious social issue that promises to yield one of the justices’ most important rulings of 2015. A total of 379 businesses and groups representing employers across various sectors, including Google Inc, American […] Continue reading →
A Texas to Oklahoma flight that was supposed to last one hour turned into a nearly 10-hour nightmare Friday as some passengers sat inside the plane on the tarmac. American Airlines flight 382 was scheduled to take off at 2:30 p.m. Friday from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and head to Oklahoma City’s Will Rogers World […] Continue reading →
The developer rebuilding the World Trade Center in New York told a federal appeals court on Wednesday that he is entitled to recoup billions of dollars from two airline companies, even though he has already collected $4 billion in insurance money for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that destroyed the site. Lawyers for Larry Silverstein […] Continue reading →
Al Qaeda is urging “lone wolf” bomb attacks on western airlines. Inspire Magazine, a terrorist journal, named American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta, Continental, British Airways, Air France and EasyJet as potential targets. The terror magazine also called for killing “economic personalities” like Ben Bernanke or “wealthy entrepreneurs” like Bill Gates. Read more from the New […] Continue reading →
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to revive a New York real estate developer’s lawsuit against the leaseholder of the destroyed World Trade Center and two airlines seeking environmental cleanup costs related to the Sept. 11, 2001 hijacked airliner attacks. The court’s refusal to hear the appeal filed by Cedar & Washington Associates Ltd […] Continue reading →
Passengers planning to travel for Thanksgiving are facing canceled and delayed flights, packed airports, and uncomfortable turbulence as rain and snow move through the U.S. East Coast on one of the year’s busiest travel days. Airlines had canceled 445 flights as of 11:14 a.m. in New York within, into or out of the U.S., and […] Continue reading → Authorities say a security threat forced a flight from Dallas to San Diego to be diverted to Phoenix. FBI Special Agent Perryn T. Collier says the American Airlines flight landed Sunday afternoon at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Collier declined to discuss the security threat because of the active investigation. American Airlines spokeswoman Michelle Mohr […] Continue reading → Sony Corp said on Sunday its PlayStation Network was taken down by a denial of service-style attack and the FBI was investigating the diversion of a flight carrying a top Sony executive amid reports of a claim that explosives were on board. The company said in a posting on its PlayStation blog that no personal […] Continue reading → Bruce Bialosky Big Business does some things that are utterly necessary in modern society. They build airplanes and cars. They run airlines, phone companies, credit card companies and banks. But there is not a person among us, including employees of big businesses, that has not withered with frustration from confronting these businesses with a problem […] Continue reading → US Airways said it was investigating a pornographic tweet on Tuesday sent on its Twitter account in response to a customer complaint about a flight delay, which went viral on social media. US Airways issued an apology on Monday immediately after deleting the tweeted photograph of a naked woman lying on a bed with a […] Continue reading → The sooty urchins of Dickens’ day have given way to pale adults moving packages at increasing speeds and lower wages. Modern-day shackles connect them to productivity monitors while their bosses deliver self-adoring lectures to agog business-school students. “Mindless: Why Smarter Machines Are Making Dumber Humans,” written by Simon Head, deconstructs the “computer business systems,” or […] Continue reading → A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 disappeared from air traffic control screens over waters between Malaysia and Vietnam early Saturday morning, leaving the fates of the 239 people aboard in doubt. A look at some of the world’s deadliest air disasters: June 3, 2012: Dana Air MD-83 jet crashes into residential area of Nigeria’s largest city, […] Continue reading → American Airlines has ended its policy of extending special fares to passengers who must book a last-minute flight because of a relative’s death. The move brings American in line with the policy at merger partner US Airways, which does not offer bereavement fares. Walk-up prices tend to be the highest on any airline, putting family […] Continue reading → Bad boy-turned-bellyacher Alec Baldwin threw a 5,000-word, seven-page pity party for himself in the entertainment media he says he abhors. Hey, what better way for a Hollywood narcissist to protest the attention-starved shallowness of celebrity life than to wallow in it to the bitter end? The rage-filled actor’s bloated face is on the cover of […] Continue reading → Michelle Malkin Testing, 1, 2, 3, testing. Jihadists never go on furlough. While shutdown theater preoccupies Washington, terror plotters remain on the clock. The question is: Will America keep hitting the post-9/11 snooze button? At Los Angeles International Airport, two dry ice bombs exploded this week, and two others were found in a restricted area […] Continue reading → American Airlines and US Airways expected to spend this week cruising toward completion of a merger that would create the world’s biggest airline. Instead, they were stunned Tuesday when the federal government and six states sued to block the deal, saying it would hurt competition and cost consumers hundreds of millions of dollars a year […] Continue reading →