Oil soars above $117

Jon Surmacz · April 21, 2008

Crude oil prices surged to a new record high on Monday above $117 a barrel.

 

Unfriendly skies in Boston

Jon Surmacz · April 21, 2008

Grounded planes, crowded flight paths, and other delays are playing havoc with travelers trying to make their airport connections. Here’s what some airlines at Boston’s Logan International are doing about it.

 

Gaylord resort on the rebound

Jon Surmacz · April 18, 2008

Making headlines for a norovirus breakout and sightings of mice in guestrooms isn’t exactly how you want to open a new resort hotel.

 

Praying passenger removed from flight

Jon Surmacz · April 18, 2008

An Orthodox Jewish man was removed from a United Airlines flight for failing to follow instructions of flight attendants as he left his seat to pray during takeoff.

 

Pilot fired over gun incident

Jon Surmacz · April 18, 2008

The US Airways pilot who said his gun accidentally went off in the cockpit during a flight has been fired.

 

US Airways pilots choose new union

Jon Surmacz · April 17, 2008

Rank-and-file US Airways pilots unseated the Air Line Pilots Association as their union representative and replace it with an upstart labor group

 

Airline execs, regulators entangled

Jon Surmacz · April 17, 2008

The cozy world of the airline industry and its regulators is coming under increasing scrutiny.

 

Airlines resist LaGuardia plan

Jon Surmacz · April 17, 2008

Federal officials are proposing to cut flights and to auction rights for new flights at New York’s LaGuardia Airport.