On March 30 the Open Skies treaty went into effect, liberalizing air travel between the U.S. and Europe. But how will the ease of restrictions on transatlantic routes affect business travelers?
A planned sale of the struggling airliner collapses as unions make new demands -- unless politicians on the left and right see the error of their ways
You probably already know about Spring Break, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving.
For those that suffer from a fear of flying, the British Airways Boeing 777 crash landing will not have been welcome news. After all, when planes fall out of the sky -- for what is still an unclear reason -- air travel seems more miracle than science.
Stocks climbed in thin trading Friday as investors returned from the Thanksgiving holiday seeking bargains and kept an eye on the start of the crucial holiday shopping season.
The sensation of speed is as muted as the Christian Lacroix interiors of the first-class carriages. Passengers stroll the corridors without lurching from side to side. Drinks at the bar are neither shaken nor stirred by the train's acceleration. Only the green rush of the Champagne countryside whooshing by at 200 mph vouches for the velocity of France's newest and fastest TGV, as it hurtles along the track from Paris to Strasbourg.
Two million euros a day. That's the amount of money Alitalia, Italy's national airline, is now hemorrhaging
Air France-KLM eked out a 1 percent gain in fiscal first-quarter operating profit, below market forecasts, as currency pressures and cargo weakness curtailed profit growth on passenger routes.
Five hours.
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On March 30 the Open Skies treaty went into effect, liberalizing air travel between the U.S. and Europe. But how will the ease of restrictions on transatlantic routes affect business travelers?
A planned sale of the struggling airliner collapses as unions make new demands -- unless politicians on the left and right see the error of their ways
You probably already know about Spring Break, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving.
For those that suffer from a fear of flying, the British Airways Boeing 777 crash landing will not have been welcome news. After all, when planes fall out of the sky -- for what is still an unclear reason -- air travel seems more miracle than science.
Stocks climbed in thin trading Friday as investors returned from the Thanksgiving holiday seeking bargains and kept an eye on the start of the crucial holiday shopping season.
The sensation of speed is as muted as the Christian Lacroix interiors of the first-class carriages. Passengers stroll the corridors without lurching from side to side. Drinks at the bar are neither shaken nor stirred by the train's acceleration. Only the green rush of the Champagne countryside whooshing by at 200 mph vouches for the velocity of France's newest and fastest TGV, as it hurtles along the track from Paris to Strasbourg.
Two million euros a day. That's the amount of money Alitalia, Italy's national airline, is now hemorrhaging
Air France-KLM eked out a 1 percent gain in fiscal first-quarter operating profit, below market forecasts, as currency pressures and cargo weakness curtailed profit growth on passenger routes.
Five hours.
ABB SWITZERLAND 273
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A man with a dangerous form of tuberculosis had health officials around the world scrambling Wednesday to find about 80 passengers who sat within five rows of him on two trans-Atlantic flights
Business travel has gone Web 2.0. Frequent fliers can now build their Rolodexes electronically by searching for other travelers' profiles and then arranging to meet contacts on a flight, at a golf course, or over dinner. Here's a look at a new breed of sites aiming to make every part of your next trip a chance to enlarge and enrich your web of business contacts.
British Airways has apologized to passengers after a report revealed the airline lost more luggage than all other major European airlines last year.
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It's the issue that is dividing air passengers -- should we be able to use mobile phones on flights?
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Canadian investigators are set to interview the pilot who was at the controls of the Air France jet that crashed on landing earlier this week at Toronto's airport, the head of the crash inquiry team said Thursday.
Canada's Transportation Safety Board recovered the flight data and voice recorders -- the so-called "black boxes" -- of Air France Flight 358 Wednesday. The plane crashed Tuesday after landing at Pearson International Airport in Toronto.
One of the first passengers to escape from Tuesday's Air France crash in Toronto praised the flight crew for getting passengers to emergency exit chutes quickly.
An Air France jetliner attempting to land at Toronto's Pearson International Airport overran a runway, smashed into a gully and burst into flames Tuesday afternoon.
Air France-KLM (3112.FR) Thursday said that high fuel costs caused it to record a loss in its fiscal fourth quarter, but rising passenger traffic and synergies from the merger of the two airline companies helped lift earnings for the full year.
It seems as if every airline has partnered with a famous fashion designer to outfit employees. Delta has deals with Kate Spade and Richard Tyler, Julien Macdonald (Givenchy) works with British Airw...
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Thieves hijacked an armored car from the KLM cargo ramp at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport Friday and made off with millions of dollars in diamonds and jewelry, the Dutch airline said.
A traveler departed on a flight to France Sunday after authorities refused him entry to the United States, a spokesman for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.
With Italy's state-owned airline Alitalia struggling to survive, the question on business travelers minds is how it will affect them.
Collecting airline memorabilia is nothing new. The moment Concorde was scrapped, spare parts were sold to enthusiasts.
The specter of a biological attack was raised Sunday as a possible reason that a handful of transatlantic and domestic flights were canceled this weekend.
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In the past 48 hours, the United States has received new intelligence that suggests a threat of possible terrorist attacks against the United States using aircraft, government officials told CNN on Friday.
Airline industry officials said Thursday they are prepared to maintain security for a heightened alert even if the U.S. terror threat level is lowered.
The terror alert reached fever pitch on Wednesday as speculation swirled about why one man failed to board an Air France flight that was canceled due to security concerns.
French officials said Wednesday that they were looking for a man who did not show up to board canceled France Air Flight 68 in Paris on December 24, while senior U.S. officials said they had found "no derogatory information" on anyone on that flight.
Investigators searching for one man who failed to appear for a Christmas Eve Air France flight to Los Angeles, California, still have not found him.
Mistaken identities led to last week's cancellation of three Air France flights from Paris to Los Angeles, with one of the suspicious names belonging to a child, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Amid extraordinary cancellations of international flights in recent days due to security reasons, a top U.S. official said Friday such steps would only be taken if there was "specific intelligence" indicating a possible attack.
British Airways has canceled one of its three daily flights from London to Washington for a second straight day and another flight to Saudi Arabia because of security fears.
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