A federal appeals court has ruled that a lawsuit against an airline for allegedly taping a sex toy to the top of a checked bag should survive a motion to…
Nov 12, 2013 11:50 AM CST
The Los Angeles airport looked like a set for a movie on Friday morning as a gunman who may have been a ticketed passenger fatally shot a Transportation Security Agent…
Nov 1, 2013 8:49 PM CDT
Those with the most frequent flier miles in their United Airlines accounts are charged higher redemption rates for hotels and flights, contends a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in…
Oct 10, 2013 6:45 PM CDT
The U.S. Justice Department has filed an antitrust suit in an effort to block the $11 billion merger of American Airlines with U.S. Airways.
The merger would create the world’s…
Aug 13, 2013 3:18 PM CDT
Updated: Asiana Airlines has announced it will not sue a California television station that broadcast fake names of the pilots in the crash of Flight 214 that killed three passengers.
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Jul 16, 2013 3:29 PM CDT
Former Houston hand surgeon Michael Brown is planning a change of plea on federal charges that he choked a flight attendant and threatened to strip naked on a flight from…
Jul 11, 2013 7:20 PM CDT
When Bill Oliver started work on June 1, 1963 at Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace & Bauer, there were only seven attorneys at the Kansas law firm.
The…
May 30, 2013 10:06 PM CDT
A tech worker who took it all off at the Portland, Ore., airport last year as a protest of security measures, was acquitted at trial later in 2012 by a…
May 10, 2013 10:15 PM CDT
Thinking ahead, a woman in her mid-90s has raised the question of whether the mileage points she has accumulated with a major airline can be used for her final flight…
May 1, 2013 5:22 PM CDT
An airline passenger who says his refusal to order a soda on a computer touch screen led to his being detained and questioned by authorities after the plane landed has…
Apr 30, 2013 6:29 PM CDT
It appears that eating utensils—or table knives, at the very least—will remain banned as carry-on items on U.S. airlines flights, under safety rules adopted after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist…
Mar 6, 2013 9:36 PM CST
A lawsuit claiming United Continental Holdings breached a contract with high-mileage frequent flier customers has gotten the green light.
U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber of Chicago ruled last week that…
Feb 5, 2013 5:40 PM CST
Maria-Vittoria Carminati: “Space tourist flights are scheduled to start in the next few years at $90,000 to $200,000 a seat.” Photo by Jack Thompson.
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The hatchet in a checked bag for an airline passenger traveling through Los Angeles from Japan last week, en route to Boston, was legal, according to authorities. Ditto the gas…
Oct 12, 2012 7:23 PM CDT
Should humans who meet extraterrestrials be quarantined? Who pays if satellites fall to the ground, hurting people or damaging property? Space lawyers are raising the issues and providing the answers.
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Aug 9, 2012 10:30 AM CDT