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Pinnacle Airlines Corp , parent of Pinnacle Airlines and Colgan Air, filed for bankruptcy protection late on Sunday, the latest victim of high fuel prices and dampened travel demand.

For the second year in a row, low-cost carrier AirTran Airways did the best job getting passengers to their destinations with the least hassle, private researchers who have analyzed federal data on airline performance said Monday.

Federal authorities have charged a JetBlue Airways captain who sprinted down the cabin of a flight screaming about a bomb with interfering with a flight crew. An affidavit unsealed Wednesday states that captain Clayton Osbon told his co-pilots that "things don't matter" during a Las Vegas-bound flight Tuesday. Court documents say Osbon told the plane's first officer that "we're not going to Vegas" and began giving a sermon.

Passengers said the captain of a JetBlue flight from New York to Las Vegas could be heard shouting about Al Qaeda and bombs, and the plan made an emergency landing in Texas.

Annual profits at Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific have declined by 61% as global economic uncertainty hit demand for passenger travel and cargo shipments.

A domestic dispute was likely at the root of a bomb scare that forced a Boston-to-Chicago flight carrying 83 passengers to land in Buffalo on Monday, but the FBI says there was never a real threat.

As an American Airlines plane taxied for takeoff at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Friday morning, a flight attendant ranted on the plane's intercom, repeatedly telling passengers that she was not responsible for the safety of the plane and wrestling with another flight attendant for control of the plane's public address system, according to a passenger on the flight.

A JetBlue pilot boots a family from a flight, saying the plane couldn't safely depart after they had difficulty getting their fussy 2-year-old under control.

Air fares are likely to stay high throughout this decade, as passenger travel grows but airline capacity shrinks, according to a government forecast issued Thursday.

An impressive solar flare is heading toward Earth and could disrupt power grids, GPS and airplane flights....