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  • Halftime: Trading Higher Commodity Prices Tuesday, 21 Sep 2010 | 1:30 PM ET

    With the price of both corn and cotton higher, the traders game its effect on the food industry and retail space. So what's their trade?

  • Spirit Airlines Files for Share Offering Friday, 17 Sep 2010 | 6:50 PM ET
    Airplane Takeoff

    Low cost Spirit Airlines, which weathered a pilots' strike and a furor over bag charges this year, announced plans on Friday for a public stock offering.

  • GAO Dismisses Some, Not All of Tanker Protest Friday, 17 Sep 2010 | 1:58 PM ET

    CNBC has learned the Government Accountability Office will continue to consider part of a protest in the Air Force tanker refueling competition filed by a small U.S. company proposing a Ukrainian based tanker. However, the GAO is dismissing the most serious accusations made by the firm, U.S. Aerospace, which claim the Air Force engaged in intentional misconduct.

  • Testing Tiny Airplane Seats Wednesday, 15 Sep 2010 | 3:34 PM ET

    The key is that the Skyrider seats are saddle-shaped and pitched slightly forward, so that the knees of long-legged people start to fit under the seat in front of them. .

  • The company has partnered with Antonov to turn the AN-70 cargo plane into a tanker which will cost millions less to build, and potentially billions less to maintain, than tankers being offered by Boeing and EADS.

  • Ryanair Crews' Cost-Cutting Idea: Drop the CEO Tuesday, 14 Sep 2010 | 5:48 AM ET
    Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary

    "Ryanair would benefit by saving millions of euros in salary, benefits and stock options," Captain Morgan Fischer, who trains other pilots at Ryanair’s Marseilles base, told the Financial Times.

  • Worst Airline Seats Ever? Monday, 13 Sep 2010 | 11:52 AM ET
    SkyRider

    An Italian company called Aviointeriors, which manufactures commercial airline seats, is debuting the SkyRider, a seat with "a 23-inch pitch or less". That means there's 23 inches from your seatback to the one in front of you—at least eight inches shorter than most conventional economy class seats.

  • Next M&A Hotbed? Thursday, 9 Sep 2010 | 6:28 PM ET

    The M&A trend has hit agriculture, technology and pharmaceuticals, so what's the next sector to get caught in the "urge to merge?"

  • Simulator Training Flaws Tied to Airline Crashes Tuesday, 31 Aug 2010 | 12:26 PM ET

    Flaws in flight simulator training helped trigger some of the worst airline accidents in the past decade, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal accident records.

  • Medical tourism, family travel and international migration have combined to import a potent new form of antibiotic resistance halfway around the planet—and the physician-researchers who have tracked its rapid spread say it is already on the verge of becoming untreatable.

  • Tee'd Off With Steven Slater Wednesday, 11 Aug 2010 | 2:01 PM ET

    I know he (allegedly) committed a crime. Yes, he cursed on a loudspeaker in front of children. True, he reportedly lists "recovery" as one of his Facebook interests but grabbed two beers on his way out. I love Steven Slater.

  • Move over Susan Boyle and David at Dentist, there's a new Internet sensation in town — Jet Blue Flight attendant (sorry, former flight attendant) Steven Slater!

  • Steven Slater seen here in an undated photo aboard a JetBlue aircraft.

    A JetBlue flight attendant apparently upset with an uncooperative passenger on a just-landed flight unleashed a profanity-laden tirade on the public-address system, pulled the emergency-exit chute, slid off the plane and fled Kennedy International Airport, a law enforcement official said.

  • Airplane

    The corporate traveler is back, but high airfares are continuing to constrain consumer travel, according to Orbitz Worldwide President and CEO Barney Harford.

  • Cramer: Who Is The Worst CEO in 2010? Wednesday, 4 Aug 2010 | 6:06 PM ET
    With Tony Hayward leaving the top spot at BP, Cramer's marquee list of who he thinks are the worst bosses in business needed an update.

    Find some of their most debatable choices in this slide show—and Cramer's opinion on them, of course—which includes the CEOs of Nokia, Johnson & Johnson, Massey Energy, Blackstone Group, WellPoint and more.

  • Cheap Way to Make Cheaptickets Ad Wednesday, 4 Aug 2010 | 5:02 PM ET

    The company launched "Too Cheap to Advertise", an online campaign where it solicited 30-second commercials from the public (for free!) in exchange for $50,000 in free travel (no cash upfront!). "Cheap is an attitude," the company says, adding that customers embrace it, "so who better to create a commercial?"

  • Revenue Continues to Grow: Southwest Air CEO Thursday, 29 Jul 2010 | 10:22 AM ET

    Southwest Airlines reported record revenue and earnings growth Thursday and all signs point to continued growth for the low-cost airline, Gary Kelly, chairman and CEO said on CNBC Thursday.

  • Analyst Watch: Boeing's Best Entry Points Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 | 7:57 AM ET

    Here's what analysts and others say they're watching before the bell Wednesday.

  • No Double-Dip Recession for World: Richard Branson Tuesday, 27 Jul 2010 | 2:40 AM ET

    The global economy will steer clear of a double dip recession, said Richard Branson, founder of the UK's Virgin Group, adding that he believes the "world is getting back on its feet."

  • Farnborough Surges Back, but Defense Cuts Loom Monday, 26 Jul 2010 | 9:31 AM ET
    The final day at the Farnborough Airshow and day two of the public event days.

    The Farnborough International Airshow saw the giants of the aerospace industry back on fighting form with Boeing and Airbus receiving major orders, but the threat of military spending cuts loomed large on the horizon.