Air Travel

The $11 billion dollar deal announced today combines American Airlines and US Airways to create the world's largest air carrier. The new airline is expected to keep the American Airlines name.

Firearms top the list of items passengers are prohibited from taking past airport security checkpoints and onto airplanes. Yet, during 2012 that didn't stop travelers from trying to get more than 1,500 handguns and other firearms past Transportation Security Administration officers at U.S. airports.

UPDATE, 8/19: Depardieu has apologized, via his flying companion, for peeing on the plane.

A British solar scientist is warning long haul fliers that they may be subjected to cancer causing cell damage on flights near the poles due to an increasing number of solar energetic particles and galactic cosmic rays.

An English woman's fear of flying got her off the hook on Monday as a judge refused to send her to jail for drunkenly brawling with other passengers and the crew on an EasyJet flight.