Bureau of Transportation Statistics

It’s 2019, and thanks to the world’s largest commercial airlines, you can fly nearly anywhere nonstop. In order to find the longest nonstop flights of 2019, Benzinga has analyzed commercial airline flight data for 2019 provided by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, flightstats.com...

More signs the U.S. airline industry has recovered from the double blows of the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001 and the subsequent recession. On Monday, the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported the 26 scheduled U.S. passenger airlines had a net profit of $7.3 billion in the...

United Airlines (NYSE: UAL) attempted to raise airfares for the second time in two weeks last Thursday but Monday, the airline company abandoned its attempts to raise fares because of a lack of demand. Rising jet fuel prices are the cause of airlines' continued attempts to increase airfares and...