Tim Wagner

Although more passengers are flocking to San Francisco International Airport, the plunge in nationwide air travel will cost 100 aircraft mechanics their jobs there. Read More

Although more and more passengers are flocking to San Francisco International Airport, the plunge in nationwide air travel will cost 100 aircraft mechanics their jobs at the airport. Read More

Although more and more passengers are flocking to San Francisco International Airport, the plunge in nationwide air travel will cost 100 aircraft mechanics their jobs at the airport. Read More

CHICAGO -(Dow Jones)- American Airlines, a unit of AMR Corp. (AMR), in the next year will close or downsize some U.S. aircraft maintenance facilities, cutting up to 700 jobs, or about 5% of its maintenance staff of 12,700, as the size of its fleet gets smaller. Read More

Responding to a service bulletin from General Electric about potential wear on compressors in CFM56 engines, American Airlines is shipping the engines to GE for the recommended maintenance, company executives say. Read More

Responding to a service bulletin from General Electric about potential wear on compressors in CFM56 engines, American Airlines is shipping the engines to GE for the recommended maintenance, company executives say. Read More

The newspaper reported Saturday that at least one of the Fort Worth-based airline's McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series jets was believed to be in such poor shape that it was ferried without passengers to a maintenance base at low altitudes to avoid stressing the fuselage by pressurizing it. Read More

American Airlines parent company AMR Corp. plans to replace 1,600 lights in its parking garage with energy-efficient LED lights to save $130,000 a year. Read More

An airliner returned to Salt Lake City International Airport when it was struck by lightning shortly after takeoff. Read More

Twenty-three suspects, including nine American Airlines employees, were arrested Tuesday for allegedly transporting nearly $20 million worth of cocaine on flights into and out of Puerto Rico, federal authorities said. Read More