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Take me up to the ball game -- thanks to a new offering from broadband provider Row 44, baseball fanatics won't have to miss one tobacco spit or big hit while flying, because Major League Baseball will stream games to airline passengers' WiFi devices.

The American Customer Satisfaction Index's annual report on airlines showed Southwest still on top of the rankings, and far ahead of No. 2 Continental. Southwest even improved its score, a rare bright spot in an industry that came in last overall in customer satisfaction among those the ACSI rates.

United Airlines (UAL) has temporarily grounded 96 of its Boeing (BA) 757 jets after the airline discovered late Tuesday it had failed to complete federally mandated safety checks. The action is expected to result in the cancellation or delay of an unspecified number of flights Wednesday, while...

Of all the industries that have achieved record profits recently, none have posted more remarkable results than the airline industry. For the first time in a decade, the industry is on a glide path to profitability -- but it's getting there by squeezing its customers.

Those irritating fees aren't going away, but over the next few years, some of them will be attached to new a la carte services that travelers may be happier to pay for. Think personal concierge services, intercity rail ticket sales -- and even in-flight spa treatments.

The year maybe almost over, but there seems no end to the string of recalls issued by automakers this year. The latest action, announced Thursday, involves some 100,000 vehicles produced by General Motors (GM). The Detroit-based auto giant is warning that airbags in some Cadillac models may not...

Perhaps even the airlines are realizing that flying is about as comfortable as riding the New York City subway during rush hour, and finally, some carriers are working on increasing passenger comfort. American Airlines and others say they plan to modify their cabins to double the amount of...

We've all seen them: The people who clog the aisle while boarding an airplane. Why, oh why, don't they just sit down so the plane can take off on time? In a slight turn of the tables, I thought I'd take a look at what makes the worst type of airline passenger from the standpoint of people who...

Got $200,000 lying around? If so, you could be among the first commercial space travelers. The U.S. space program may have stalled, but that hasn't stopped billionaire mogul Richard Branson from advancing his vision of commercial space flight. This week, at a glitzy event in the windswept Mojave...

In a move that would make even Ryanair's president jealous, China Springs Airline has been working on the details required to let passengers stand, or sit on a barstool-like seat, in order to fit more people on its planes. The relatively young airline is looking at retrofitting its current planes...