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It Just Got Harder to Hop Another Flight When Yours Is Grounded

Two of the world's three largest airlines, American and Delta, will no longer exchange passengers to help them reach their destinations in bad weather or during other disruptions. Delta wants more money from the larger airline than American is willing to pay. The "interline" agreement between the two ends Sept. 15, although tickets already sold for trips beyond that date will...

Should the U.S. Privatize Air Traffic Control?

The early air traffic control network in the U.S. was a patchwork with no central authority, a situation that lasted until a spate of midair collisions led to the birth of the Federal Aviation Agency in 1958. Six decades later some big U.S. airlines - with one notable exception - want the feds out of the air traffic game, seeking to follow other nations and transfer airspace management t...