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Your flight out of Dulles is more likely to leave on time than from almost any other airport in the country. Year-to-date figures released by the U.S. Department of Transportation showed that Dulles made the top five airports for on-time departures. News4’s Adam Tuss reports.

Your flight out of Dulles is more likely to leave on time than from almost any other airport in the country.

Even after a significant infusion of cash, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program is doing little in the way of forgiveness. Just 661 out of about 54,000 applicants, or roughly 1%, of loans have been discharged under the expanded program, a government report has found. “It’s not surprising,” said student loan expert Mark Kantrowitz. “The process is too complicated.”

Delta Air Lines comes in first in a long-running study that ranks U.S. airlines by how often flights arrive on time and other statistical measures. Researchers who crunch the numbers also say that as a whole, U.S. airlines are getting better at handling baggage and overcrowded flights and are getting fewer complaints.

Some D.C.-area nonprofits who work with underserved students are scrambling after the city missed the application deadline for funding from Americorps.

On Sunday, huge brands like Budweiser and Pepsi will once again spend millions of dollars from their advertising budgets in the hopes of catching your attention during what should be the year’s most-watched television event: Super Bowl LIII.

Football fans stuck on a plane during the Super Bowl will be in luck on some United Airlines flights. As part of a move to enhance the flying experience, the carrier is no longer charging passengers who want to watch DirecTV. That change takes place immediately, which will be welcome news for those in the air during the Super Bowl,...

PG&E says it shook up management in light of what it calls “unacceptable” conduct by unspecified managers who regulators say exerted pressure on crews to falsify “tens of thousands” of gas safety inspections as being on time when they were late.

U.S. airlines are getting better at many things except getting you to your destination on time. They are losing fewer bags. Complaints are down. And on the anniversary of a man getting dragged off a plane because a crew member needed his seat, airlines are bumping fewer passengers. That’s the upshot of a report issued by academics who analyze numbers...

Following widespread outrage over a passenger who was violently dragged off an overbooked plane, U.S. airlines are bumping customers at the lowest rate in at least two decades....
The Transportation Department said Tuesday that just one in every 19,000 passengers was kicked off an overbooked flight in the first six months of this year....
That’s the lowest rate since the government started...

Canceled and delayed flights rose in April on the nation’s leading airlines, and so did consumer complaints, according to figures released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Transportation....
The rate of canceled flights nearly doubled to 1.6 percent in April compared to the same month in 2016. Delta Air Lines accounted for nearly half the cancellations — it was crippled for...

Delta Air Lines scored the best for on-time flights in the latest government rankings, and United and American weren’t far behind. Virgin America had the highest rate of delayed flights, and discount carrier Spirit Airlines drew the highest rate of consumer complaints. The Transportation Department released figures for March on Tuesday. The report covers the 12 largest U.S. airlines.

The engineer who nodded off at the controls of a Metro-North train just before it derailed in the Bronx in 2013, killing four people and injuring more than 70 others, is suing the railroad for $10 million.

For the past two years Delta Air Lines double decker buses roamed the streets of New York, wrapped in ads proclaiming “canceling cancellations.” Delta executives boasted about the number of days without a single flight scrapped. That all literally ground to a halt Monday when a system-wide computer outage led to the cancellation of more than 1,500 flights. Passengers were...

The suspect in Friday’s shooting remained at Parkland Hospital in stable condition Saturday morning while life at the Dallas airport returned to normal.

New statistics show the efficiency of arrivals and departures for all the major airports in the U.S. The three D.C. area airports are falling behind — but one of them has improved in the last year.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett authorized an advance of $265 million to Philadelphia public schools on Wednesday. The hope is that the money can be used to fill a budget gap that could keep students from filling classrooms in September.

The price of a single-day ticket to Disneyland for visitors 10 and older was raised to $96, up from $92.