Officials say a Southwest Airlines jet has returned to Phoenix's Sky Harbor airport after pilots reported smoke in the cockpit. via Baltimore Sun

It’s great when you can write about routes that weren’t there before – connective strands linking places that heretofore entailed connections, or a stop en route. Thus, these new runs from Continental Express out of its hub at Cleveland Hopkins...

Discount airline AirTran Airways is running a one-way sale this Leap Day, February 29. Apropos of that, the carrier is selling seats for as low as $29, one-way. Book today, then travel on these discount airfares April 1 through May...

Even as seniority conflicts in the pilot ranks of Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines appear to have stalled merger momentum between the two carriers, a New York University professor argues that such a combination could prove, “an indirect flight...

© The Boeing Company The Boeing 787 Dreamliner just may be the most significant airliner of the first quarter of the 21st Century - the gargantuan double-decked A380 notwithstanding. Fifty-six airlines worldwide have placed 857 firm orders for the fuel-efficient,...

Spirit Airlines will extend its Myrtle Beach service and add new nonstop flights to South Carolina from Fort Lauderdale in May. To mark the launch, Spirit is offering $7 fares (each way, based on a round-trip purchase and excluding taxes)...

The world's largest airline is offering some new eats in the back of its airplanes. American Airlines' Economy Class food-for-sale effort is testing some new things to munch and imbibe these days. From March 1, if your flight lifts off...

Air Canada launched its latest flight to India yesterday as part of an existing codeshare agreement with Jet Airways. The service to Chennai takes the number of Indian cities served by Air Canada from three to four. Daily flights to...

A new service has been announced by Spirit Airlines that will allow passengers to connect to Latin American destinations. The low-cost carrier is to introduce two daily nonstop flights between New York's Long Island MacArthur Airport and Fort Lauderdale on...

A new low-cost carrier could be established in West Virginia to serve Yeager Airport. The Charleston Area Alliance's board of directors voted in favor of a motion to help establish an ultra low-cost start-up airline in the region. Project New...

Nick on the Go media systems will now be available to families renting cars at 22 different airports in the U.S. This takes the number of locations Hertz offers the Nickelodeon-branded portable movie and TV players up to 43. Already...

 I received one of those e-mails today that plainly states some have met an untimely death if they ignored this e-mail.   Should I hex a friend?    I was not going to perpetuate this but I did send the following “reply all”.

I want to tell all of my friends receiving this e-mail that I love them!

Apparently I may die today as I am not going to worry others with a dire prediction of what might happen if they don’t read and forward this poem. No, my conscience won’t let me.

I’ve had a good life. My Pink Ladies (Flight Attendant cruise group) have added immeasurably to it! I would like to be buried in my pink boa and nothing else. You may as well have something to talk about afterward. Someone make sure I have a smudge of chocolate on my lip. My organs are worn out, but my teeth may be useful to someone. Ask that person to smile a lot! I request to be buried in a pine coffin unless they have something on sale you think I would like. I don’t want the concrete liner - I can swim. Music? I prefer the Eagles. When the minister says, “If Carole was here today, she might say…” - don’t believe him. Nobody knows what I’m going to say; sometimes even I don’t know. If you can beat my kids to my house (you will recognize them by the U-Hauls behind their cars) you may choose a remembrance!

And if you ever run into Steven Gray, my first grade crush, tell him I loved him. If you see David Miller, my 8th grade boyfriend, tell him I loved him. Heck, tell them ALL I loved them. I didn’t, but it might make them feel good!

My epitaph? “She was fun while she lasted!”

Live well my friends and be careful - someone may take you seriously!

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