The nation's airlines are offering fewer flights, but at least they're more likely to arrive on time now.

If holiday travelers on the same plane compare what they paid to fly, they're likely to find quite a spread, depending on when they bought their tickets.

JetBlue Airways Corp. said on Thursday that its traffic and capacity rose a little more than 7 percent in October, making it one of the few airlines to grow that month.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services affirmed its credit rating on JetBlue Airways Corp. on Monday, and revised its outlook to stable, from negative.

JetBlue said Thursday it will boost its service from Boston Logan by 30 percent by next summer, as bigger carriers pull back and competition from rival Southwest heats up.

JetBlue said Thursday it will boost its service from Boston Logan by 30 percent by next summer, as bigger carriers pull back and competition from rival Southwest heats up.

JetBlue Airways Corp. said Monday it was expanding its service at Boston's Logan International Airport.

Last year, procrastinators were rewarded when they finally got around to booking flights for holiday travel. Back then, airlines were not prepared for the sharp falloff in travel and offered last-minute deals to fill up empty planes. This year? Dilly-dallying, even waiting just a few days, could carry a steep price.

An airline consulting firm says U.S. air traffic will decline through next year before beginning a slow rebound.

Discount airlines have traditionally outflanked the big network carriers in customer service and low fares, and it appears they're extending their advantage to social media.

Airlines shouldn't be too cheap when it comes to helping customers whose bags are lost.

Lengthy airline delays are twice as common now as in 1990 and will get worse as the economy recovers, according to a Brookings Institution report released Thursday.

The carriers offered fewer flights this summer than last, and they slashed prices to fill even that reduced supply of seats, according to August traffic reports released over the past week.

Airline passengers got to their destination on time a little more often in July. The Transportation Department said on Tuesday that 77.6 percent of airline flights arrived on time, up from 75.7 percent during the same month last year.

Authorities say fire was seen on a JetBlue flight from Orlando after it landed safely in the Bahamas.