The House Transportation Committee accused the Federal Aviation Administration this spring of being too cozy with industry. But FAA seems in a fighting mood when it comes to assessing fines. The Washington Post's Joan Lowy reports that the aviation agency has fined American Airlines $7.1 million for flying a ...

The Wall Street Journal's Andy Pasztor and Christopher Conkey show little mercy to the Federal Aviation Administration in a A1 piece blasting the aviation agency's bureaucratic failures. FAA hasn't forced the airline industry to make a safer refueling tanker-- 12 years after ...

The Wall Street Journal’s headline this morning “Special Counsel Has Hands Full With FAA” sets off alarm bells that reporter Christopher Conkey fails to quiet. Conkey plays it straight, explaining the independent Office of Special Counsel’s ambitious investigation into 32 ...

How do airline pilots stay alert during red-eye flights? Well, unfortunately they sometimes don’t, as indicated by several recent planes veering, and even crashing, due to pilot fatigue. The New York Times’ Matthew Wald reports that the Federal Aviation Administration’s National Transportation ...

The Federal Aviation Administration is testing four new methods for finding foreign objects on airplane runways, Matthew Wald of the New York Times reports.  Debris and cast-off airplane parts can get sucked into jet engines during takeoff and landing, causing structural damage or even explosions, such as the explosion that ...

The Federal Aviation Administration and American Airlines continue to tangle over the recent grounding of AA flights -- and the FAA says there's no guarantee American might not have to keep planes on the ground again to complete repairs the agency has demanded.  Christopher Conkey and Andy Pazstor of the ...

The FAA has allowed airlines to skip more than 100 reviews of fundamental safety systems that must be conducted at least once every five years.  Christopher Conkey and Andy Pasztor report in the Wall Street Journal that it's not just Southwest Airlines that missed its inspections, but in fact "seven ...

The calendar says April 24th but it’s Groundhog Day for the Federal Aviation Administration. A report released today by the Dept. of Transportation’s Inspector General said that the FAA’s Dallas-Fort Worth office routinely misreported safety violations as common pilot errors. The AP’s Michael J. Sniffen reports that the agency ...

The new and improved FAA -- the one that actually forces airlines to do inspections of their planes -- is a government agency on the rebound, and one that is probably racing against time to prevent lax inspection practices from contributing to more airline crashes.  Matthew Wald and Micheline Maynard ...

The New York Times’ Jeff Bailey reports that American Airlines has cancelled 900 more flights, leaving more than 100,000 travellers stranded in various airports around the country.  This is due to a broad round of retroactive inspections by the Federal Aviation Administration following evidence that Southwest Airlines ...