Jon Hilkevitch

Denver has been put through a "financial stress test," Dulles International is postponing major projects, and California's two largest airports are braced for several air carriers to battle each other over new passengers as a result of the financial fog...

Fewer flights to choose from, longer layovers and a greater chance of flying on small jets await United Airlines passengers at O'Hare International Airport as the carrier attempts an inevitable restructuring to survive, experts said Thursday. Over the...

The security firm under investigation because its workers allowed weapons to pass through a checkpoint undetected at O'Hare International Airport has been given the added responsibility of conducting a final security check before passengers board United...

The financial recovery of United Airlines hinges on moving forward with the proposed expansion of O'Hare International Airport, the chairman of the Elk Grove Township-based airline told Sen. Peter Fitzgerald Monday, three days before a key vote in the...

Two days after United Airlines filed for bankruptcy, American Airlines revealed Wednesday it is losing up to $5 million a day and warned that the financial crisis may delay Mayor Richard Daley's proposed 2004 start for new runways at O'Hare...

The unprecedented nationwide grounding of commercial flights in the minutes after Tuesday's terrorist attacks in New York and Washington has left the airline industry with one of the most monumental tasks it has ever faced: getting the country's complex...

United Airlines has lost exclusive rights to its aircraft gates at O'Hare International Airport because the troubled air carrier missed a Dec. 1 deadline to pay $4.2 million in gate leases, attorneys for the City of Chicago argued in federal Bankruptcy...

United Airlines said Monday it will immediately begin installing steel reinforcing bars on the cockpit doors of all its aircraft to protect pilots from forced break-ins and to provide a greater sense of security to jittery passengers. Continental...

United Airlines said Tuesday it is installing steel barriers that can be quickly fastened across front aisles of planes to protect pilots from attacks when the cockpit door is opened during flight. The voluntary security move, the first by a U.S....