If holiday travelers on the same plane compare what they paid to fly, they're likely to find quite a spread, depending on when they bought their tickets.

Traffic on United Airlines and its regional affiliates slipped 1.6 percent in October compared with a year ago, but planes were more crowded as the company reduced flights.

United Airlines spent $510,000 in the third quarter lobbying on legislation including the cap-and-trade bill that was taken up in the Senate this week, according to a recent disclosure form.

If you plan to travel around the upcoming holidays, prepare to pay a little more — again.

(Reuters) - National Mediation Board, a U.S. federal labor-management relations agency, is considering a proposal to allow airline workers to form unions with the majority approval of those voting, Bloomberg news agency said, citing people familiar with the matter.

United Airlines retired its last Boeing 737 on Wednesday, sending it off with a cross-country trip that was a retirement flight for one of its longtime pilots, too.

An early blast of winter walloped some western states with deep snow and slowly pushed into Nebraska and Kansas Thursday, bringing blizzard conditions to the eastern plains and causing treacherous roads, closed schools and hundreds of canceled flights.

Business air traffic is starting to stabilize, said Larry Kellner, CEO of Continental.

Continental Airlines has changed teams in the battle among three large alliances of global airlines.

Continental Airlines on Tuesday officially joined the Star Alliance, a move it says will give passengers more options and the airline more places to expand.

Top airline executives are growing more optimistic about future profit despite tough conditions in the third quarter, according to a survey released Monday by the International Air Transport Association.

United Airlines said on Tuesday that it's seeing early signs of a recovery in business travel as it reported a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss.

What follows is a roundup of corporate earnings reports for Tuesday, Oct. 20.

Airlines shouldn't be too cheap when it comes to helping customers whose bags are lost.

Lengthy airline delays are twice as common now as in 1990 and will get worse as the economy recovers, according to a Brookings Institution report released Thursday.