American Airlines

The U.S. Department of Transportation penalty against American Airlines comes after "numerous serious violations of the laws protecting airline passengers with disabilities" over a four-year period.

At the center of the deal is a proposed new contract for about 28,000 workers which includes increased pay levels. Flight attendants had not received salary increases since 2019.

CEO Robert Isom vows immediate action following the incident involving eight Black men on a flight from Phoenix to JFK, as well as other alleged accounts of racial discrimination toward passengers.

Neither passenger knew each other, nor were they seated together on the Jan. 5 flight from Phoenix to New York. A lawsuit alleges they were removed from the flight after a complaint about body odor.

Southwest Airlines announced a tentative new contract with unions, while American Airlines floated a short-term deal.

The Oklahoma Department of Commerce announced it’s giving $22 million to American Airlines as part of the state’s Business Expansion Incentive Program. Those funds will go towards $400 million in improvements planned for the facility over the next three years. American Airlines says the expansion will add 300 jobs.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating an incident with the Embraer 170 aircraft which killed an American Airlines worker on Saturday in Montgomery, Ala.

American told customers that information in the compromised email accounts could have included their date of birth, driver's license and passport numbers and medical information.

The airline hosted the Bessie Coleman Aviation All-Stars tour last week to celebrate the anniversary of Coleman earning her international pilot's license in 1921.

After a technical issue in the company's scheduling system reportedly dropped thousands of flights planned for this month, American Airlines said "the vast majority" of the trips had been restored.