As pilots at Southwest Airlines and AirTran Airways vote on a deal to combine seniority lists for the integration into a single carrier called Southwest, an alternate plan has already been floated if ...

AirTran Airways isn’t putting up a for-sale sign, but the CEO of the discount carrier said Wednesday it would consider a combination with another carrier if approached and if such a deal made sense ...

My wife and I are old hats at flying, having traveled extensively throughout the US, South America, and Europe over the years. However, we had never been in a position to be voluntarily bumped until ...

When AirTran’s final flight — AirTran Flight 1 from Atlanta to Tampa, Fla. — lands on Sunday night, it will close the book on Southwest’s acquisition that started more than four years ago. And it will ...

The last few years of airline mergers have resulted in some major airline names being retired from the sky. Passengers can no longer fly Northwest Airlines or Continental Airlines, and within a couple ...

Southwest Airlines in September took over corporate sales functions from AirTran, but it could take years for the company to fully incorporate both carriers into preferred corporate airline agreements ...

Discount airline AirTran Airways today plans to announce new nonstop flights from Los Angeles International Airport to Dallas/Fort Worth, a route now dominated by the nation’s largest carrier, ...

• The transaction: Southwest agreed to acquire AirTran Holdings for approximately $1.4 billion in cash and stock. AirTran shareholders will receive $3.75 in cash and 0.321 shares of Southwest common ...

AirTran Airways has painted itself into the Atlanta Falcons' corner, unveiling a jet bearing the team's colors and logo as part of a new sponsorship. Although celebs including Elton John and Danica ...

Lacrosse is a highly physical, highly competitive sport that relies both on individual courage and on team-playing. It is the sport that paid ­AirTran chief executive Bob Fornaro's way through college ...

AirTran increased its offer for Midwest shares for a second time and for a third time extended the deadline for shareholders to accept it, as the low-cost carrier continued to press its takeover bid ...

ATLANTA -- AirTran Airways isn't putting up a for-sale sign, but the CEO of the discount carrier said Wednesday it would consider a combination with another carrier if approached and if such a deal ...