Lawyers for Southwest and Delta airlines were peppered with questions Monday by a panel of three federal judges in Houston in the ongoing dispute over who has the right to use the limited airport gate space at Dallas Love Field. Read more here

As the U.S. State Department continues to talk with Qatar and the UAE about massive U.S. expansion by Emirates, Etihad and Qatar, the big three U.S. airlines have just one principal goal: They want the three Mideast airlines to stop operating fifth freedom flights to the U.S. Read more here

Despite having gotten tentative contracts with two key labor groups — pilots and flight attendants — in recent weeks, Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly is still on the outs with a third important group, some 2,500 Southwest Airlines mechanics represented by Dallas-based Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association Local 11. Read more here

The airline industry will have a pilot shortage of 15,000 by 2026. American Airlines Group Inc (AAL) is trying to avoid the shortage through simple economics—they’re going to pay pilots more. A lot more. Read more here

Recommendation stems from sliding incident involving Delta plane at LaGuardia Airport Federal accident investigators have called on jet makers and the Federal Aviation Administration to devise tougher safeguards against one of commercial aviation’s most common safety threats: planes careening off slippery runways during landings. Read more here

A spat among airlines over which deserved the contract to fly U.S. government workers on certain routes intensified on Tuesday, with the chief executive of JetBlue Airways Corp calling rivals hypocritical for protesting its award. The largest U.S. airlines have taken issue with a contract for federal employees to buy flights between New York and

One week after DFW Airport approved millions in incentives for airlines to connect to new destinations, American Airlines has done just that. The Fort Worth-based carrier announced the first nonstop flight to Rome from DFW Airport. American will also fly to Amsterdam. Both are seasonal routes. Neither the airport nor the airline cited incentives but

The Catalysts Behind the Surge According to a Bloomberg report, stocks of the U.S. carriers appreciated the most in almost two months. The surge came on the back of encouraging forecasts from heavyweights like Delta Air Lines Inc. DAL and Southwest Airlines Co. LUV. Read more here

American Airlines and US Airways pilots received a combined seniority list from an arbitration panel on Tuesday, the latest step in integrating the two carriers that merged in 2013. “Now that the [seniority list] has been issued, [the Allied Pilots Association] will be closely working with the company on its implementation,” the pilots’ union said