After some months of hold-up and review, the Justice Department has OK’d the merger of American Airlines and US Airways. A lot of details have yet to be sorted out,...

My modest tribute to the captain of US Airways flight 1549, which appeared here last Friday, triggered a comment with a different and interesting perspective that’s very much worth sharing....

I don’t know about any of you folks, but around the dinner table last night, we hoisted a glass to Chesley B. Sullenberger III, the captain of US Airways flight...