Southwest's CEO Bob Jordan said "our hearts go out" to people on the American Airlines flight involved in Wednesday night’s midair collision with a helicopter in the nation’s capital.

Airline executives have pushed the government to modernize air traffic control and alleviate congestion in some of the busiest air corridors in the U.S.

The American Airlines’ subsidiary has ties that go back decades in Ohio, and just said it was moving its headquarters to Charlotte.

Wednesday night’s crash of an American Airlines commuter plane in Washington could be one of the worst disasters for the Fort Worth-based airline in more than two decades.

Delta, United, American and Southwest generated about $8 billion in profit on $200 billion in revenue last year, but the airlines all lost money flying passengers.

Southwest Airlines Chief Executive Bob Jordan opened the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call Thursday by offering his condolences to those affected by the collision Wednesday night. “Our hearts go out to all those loved ones who are among the passengers and the crew,

The cause of the crash has not yet been determined, but Donald Trump blamed it on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

Last night's tragedy involving American Airlines Flight 5342 and a US Army Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopter has taken a turn for the worst after authorities said emergency responders are now shifting from rescue to recovery mode.

The fatal midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter followed a string of near misses at airports over the last several years.

Last year, senators from Virginia and Maryland sounded the alarm over congestion in the skies above Washington.

A jet with 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army helicopter while approaching Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C., sending the two aircraft plummeting into the Potomac River and killing everyone on board.

While there are so many unanswered questions about the deadly crash in Washington, D.C. between an American Eagle plane and a military helicopter, experts are talking about the rise in close call incidents in and around airports.