The US Department of Transportation (DoT) has granted a 10-day extension to its Cork-US flights consultation process on foot of a request from the airline’s opponents, including one of America’s largest labour unions.

Beleaguered Boeing is facing a possible engineers strike, just when the plane maker needs them most.

US Airways' Transport Workers Union (TWU) of America, representing 110 flight crew training instructors, today ratified its agreement on the company's restructuring plan by a 92-7 vote, according to a US Airways statement.

President George Bush has established a presidential emergency board to at least delay and possibly avoid, a strike by mechanics at UAL Corp's United Airlines.