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American Airlines has partnered with the Grapevine Colleyville Independent School District and the Fort Worth Airpower Foundation that helps teach local high school students about World War II by talking with local veterans.

Passenger traffic internationally slowed in March due to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and political unrest in the Middle East.

Today, we’re announcing our exciting AirTran news to the world in true Southwest Style!  That's right, what better way to celebrate the integration of two incredible airlines than showcasing our People? 

Two American Airlines planes were used in the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Fort Worth-based carrier issued a brief statement acknowledging Osama Bin Laden’s death.

JAPAN is "open for business" and "recovering at surprising speed," from the earthquake that devastated the country on March 11, Takeaki Matsumoto, the country's foreign minister, wrote in Saturday's International Herald Tribune:

I'm on the airplane taking Southwest Airlines and AirTran executives to a celebration in Atlanta, at AirTran's hangar there.

American Airlines is seeking permission to operate 10 more weekly round trips from Miami to several Brazilian cities.

Air Force top brass has apparently decided against a quick fix program of trying to piggyback on Army orders for new Black Hawk helicopters and will hold formal competitions for replacements for its Huey domestic transport/utility birds and another for a combat search-and-rescue craft. 

Watching television is not one of my favorite things. Most shows just annoy me and I haven’t had cable TV in years. Sure, I watch stuff on Hulu and Netflix, but that is about it. Most of what is out there is poorly done reality TV, with bad plots and worst acting. Recently someone someone started talking to me about this show “Ice Pilots” that was in production and on the air in Canada and at first I wasn’t sure what to think.

HANK KRAKOWSKI, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration's Air Traffic Organization, resigned several days ago. He had drawn criticism for a series of incidents in which air traffic controllers were discovered asleep on the job. Unfortunately (and predictably), Mr Krakowski's departure doesn't seem to have made his underlings any less tired. On Saturday, yet another air traffic controller was found snoozing, this time in Miami. It's the sixth such incident so far this year.

Southwest Airlines chief executive Gary Kelly's compensation doubled to $3.3 million in 2010.

The Transport Workers Union in New York is not happy about Qatar Airways moving into American Airlines' Terminal 8 at New York's JFK Airport.

As fuel prices keep climbing, the outlook for airlines keeps dropping. The latest evidence comes Monday from Dahlman Rose & Co, where airline analyst Helane Becker has cut earnings estimates for a number of airlines.

AMERICA'S airlines haven't exactly been making their customers happy. In recent years, we've seen new and vexing ancillary fees, major capacity cuts, price increases, fewer amenities in coach, and ever-increasing hassles at airport security. (Airport security theatre is not entirely the airlines' fault, but it is something they could fight against. They don't.) It's little surprise that complaints to America's Department of Transportation about airlines were up 28% in 2010. Complaints per passenger were up, too, to 1.22 per 10,000 passengers. In 2009, the rate was under 1 complaint per 10,000 passengers.