John Schmeltzer

The air got a lot rougher up there. Major airlines took it on the chin in the first quarter, socked by labor woes and softening business travel. Indeed, all the...

Forget all the blather about the need to spend billions of dollars to acquire and pave over thousands of acres of prime farmland near Peotone to construct Chicago's third airport....

Seeking to break the logjam that is threatening progress on Chicago-area railroad projects, Robert Krebs, the chairman and chief executive of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, on Thursday proposed...

UAL Corp. on Wednesday confirmed what many aviation experts have been suggesting for more than two weeks: The Justice Department needs more time to consider UAL's planned acquisition of US...

Construction work is not even finished on the new midfield terminal at Detroit's Metro Airport, but that didn't stop airport officials from announcing another project this week. Officials said they...

Airlines' hopes that the new terminal at Midway Airport would open this month were scuttled Wednesday during a meeting between the airlines and the Chicago Aviation Department. In no uncertain...

Flight delays are growing longer and more frequent on the nation's airlines, according to a yearlong government study released Monday, prompting new calls in Congress for sweeping legislation to better...

Forget about all the announcements concerning connecting gates that are routinely ignored by passengers as their flight begins its descent. American Airlines says it hopes to eliminate the announcements over...

The chairman of Delta Air Lines, which is in merger talks with Continental Airlines, on Wednesday urged Congress to stay out of the nation's airline wars. "If mega-carriers are created,...

Elmhurst College is doing what Chicago, the Suburban O'Hare Commission and the Federal Aviation Administration have been unwilling or unable to do. The college says it has received a $50,000...