It wasn’t a football Saturday, but the crowd roared like it was greeting a football championship team back home. Allegiant Flight 1403 touched down Wednesday in Gulf Shores to water cannons and cheering spectators — a fitting tribute for the first-ever commercial flight to land at Gulf Shores International Airport.

Federal officials are investigating why two planes got dangerously close on a runway at New York's LaGuardia Airport earlier this month despite the airport being equipped with an advanced surface radar system that's designed to help prevent such close calls.

Brendan J. O’Reilly grew up in Whittier and first visited Fullerton Airport when he was 6 years old, with his dad. Soon after, they returned for Airport Day and O’Reilly’s passion for airplanes grew. Today, he oversees Airport Day in his capacity as manager of Fullerton Airport, operated under the city’s Public Works Department.

A record number of Americans are gearing up to head to the airport or hit the highway this Memorial Day weekend.

Two people were killed in a small plane crash in Colorado on May 17. The plane left Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield at around 10 a.m. local time and crashed shortly after takeoff. Officials said the pilot was 'trying to return to the airport due to an issue' when the crash occurred.

The 45-year-old homeless man suspected of carrying out a stabbing at Majorca’s Palma Airport this week has "no memory" of the attack on a stranger who was picking up a friend

BOSTON — Travelers flying out of Boston’s Logan International Airport on Thursday are being urged to keep an eye on their flight status because a nasty nor’easter ahead of Memorial Day weekend could cause cancellations and delays. As of 8 a.m. Thursday, there were five flight cancellations and 20 delays at Logan, according to FlightAware.

Revenue for the period rises 13 per cent to $3.1 billion, from $2.7 billion previously. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.