Nubs has a new home. The frozen, war-ravaged desert and ruins of Iraq are in the past for this dog. The German shepherd-border collie mix that was rescued and nursed back to health by Marine Maj. Brian Dennis and his men arrived in Chicago on Wednesday on a Royal Jordanian Airlines flight. Nubs flew out again Friday on an American Airlines jet, landing in the afternoon at San Diego's Lindbergh Field before heading to his new address. ...more

February 23, 2008

Every day, American Airlines Flight 914 takes off from Bogota, Colombia, at 8:20 a.m. and touches down at the Miami airport at noon. In the jet's cargo hold are usually bags and bags of euros that investigators say are part of a huge $1.4 billion cocaine money-laundering scheme. ...more

February 16, 2008

TAMPA BAY AREA Tampa Fares 14th Lowest Tampa International Airport reported the nation's 14th-lowest departing air fares among the 100 largest U.S. airports for the period ending Sept. 30. For passengers departing Tampa's airport, round-trip and one-way air fares (grouped together for statistical purposes) averaged $264.38 for the third quarter, down 1.7 percent from the year-ago quarter and down 0.8 percent from the third quarter in 2000. ...more

January 31, 2008

Four of the five largest U.S. carriers, including AMR Corp.'s American Airlines, cut their round-trip fuel surcharge to $20, dropping an increase that briefly doubled the fee. ...more

January 23, 2008

UAL Corp.'s United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Continental Airlines have doubled their round-trip fuel surcharges in most U.S. markets to $40, matching an increase by AMR Corp.'s American Airlines. ...more

January 19, 2008

TAMPA BAY AREA Airport Sets Record Tampa International Airport set a record with 9.58 million passenger departures in 2007, up 1.5 percent compared with 2006, despite a year-end decline airport officials attributed to an economic downturn. Southwest Airlines remained the airport's leading carrier with 27.8 percent market share, followed by Delta Air Lines, US Airways, Continental Airlines and American Airlines. The number of departing passengers declined 4.2 percent in December to 771,544 compared with a year ago. ...more

January 17, 2008

CHICAGO - United Airlines says it faced the worst December weather in its 80-year history last month and is apologizing to frazzled passengers. ...more

January 6, 2008

DALLAS - Up to three American Airlines jets carrying passengers will be outfitted with anti-missile technology this spring in the latest phase of testing technology to protect commercial planes from attack. ...more

January 6, 2008

Up to three passenger-carrying American Airlines jets will be outfitted this spring with laser technology being developed to protect planes from missiles fired by terrorists. ...more

January 5, 2008

A coach passenger who refused to leave a first-class seat caused an American Airlines flight to make a diverted landing at Miami International Airport. ...more

December 27, 2007