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The government will lose about $200 million a week in airline ticket taxes if the Federal Aviation Administration is forced to shut down.

An airline passenger is accused of assaulting and intimidating flight attendants after he allegedly become furious when he was asked to put away his electronic cigarette.

Aviation experts can't explain why three airline passengers tried to open cabin or cockpit doors the past few days.

Flight attendants and passengers subdued an unruly passenger and put him in handcuffs as an American Airlines flight was approaching San Francisco, police said.

Airline passengers can feel like a pinball these days: getting bumped, unexpected layovers, canceled flights, switched airlines and losing luggage. Coping well can lessen the headaches.

Continental Airlines plans to cancel flights rather than risk stiff fines under new federal rules designed to punish carriers for delaying passengers....

Reporting the results of a six-month investigation, USA TODAY on Tuesday said that millions of passengers were on at least 65,000 U.S. flights over the last six years that should not have taken off because planes weren't properly maintained.

In the second such incident in three days, fighter jets escorted a diverted commercial flight on Friday after an unruly passenger caused alarm onboard.

All passengers flying to the United States from Amsterdam will get full-body scans because of the attempted Christmas Day terror attack on a U.S.-bound plane.

The Transportation Department is ordering airlines to let passengers stuck in stranded planes exit after three hours.