French aviation investigators have expressed cautious optimism about finding the black boxes of Air France Flight 447, which crashed in the Atlantic last June en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 people aboard the plane were killed. A third search for the Airbus A330 was launched in late February...

The Department of Homeland Security has named the first 11 U.S. airports to receive advanced imaging technology (AIT) units, or full body scanners. "By accelerating the deployment of this technology, we are enhancing our capability to detect and disrupt threats of terrorism across the nation," said...

U.S. senators are insisting that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) do something about airline pilots who regularly make long commutes prior to their flights. The lawmakers are concerned that in the year since 50 people were killed in a regional airline crash near Buffalo, NY, the FAA hasn't taken any...

Five young Virgin America flight attendants star in Fly Girls, a new 'reality' show that debuts on the CW Network on March 24. Porter Gale, Virgin America's vice president of marketing, said in a press release. "We're thrilled to work with The CW to show how our in-flight teammates are re-writing the...

Dutch authorities arrested a 41-year-old Swedish man about to pilot a Corendon Airlines Boeing 737 from Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport to Ankara. The suspect used to have a valid commercial pilot's license, but had been flying for 13 years with the forged document for companies in the UK, Belgium and Italy...