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• Business

Fliers question BWI, Southwest response to long summer lines

In recent weeks, Southwest Airlines — the largest carrier at Baltimore's "easy come, easy go"-branded airport — has run into major peak-hour congestion problems, with summer vacationers tripping over business travelers in ticketing and security lines.

• Business

Long lines at Southwest ticket counters force changes to BWI security gate

Officials at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport have introduced morning closures at one of the airport's main security gates, citing congestion around Southwest Airline's busy ticketing counters, according to airport, airline and Transportation Security Administration officials.

• Business

BWI officials eye the future as Southwest launches first international flights

An elaborate sendoff for three Southwest Airlines flights to the Caribbean from BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport on Tuesday morning will mark the official entry of the largest domestic carrier in the United States into the international airline market. It will also signal the growing Anne Arundel County airport's hopeful ascendance as a major hub for domestic travelers looking to hop overseas.

• Business

Southwest to take over BWI flights to Cancun

Flights from Baltimore to Cancun will be offered under the Southwest Airlines banner starting in August, as the airline continues to rebrand routes formerly flown under AirTran Airways.

• Business

BWI traffic dips for first time in years, despite international travel surge

Despite a slight decline in overall traffic at BWI Airport in 2013, international passengers increased by nearly 20 percent for the second straight year, airport officials said Monday.

• Business

Southwest to offer non-stop flights between BWI, Dallas

Southwest Airlines will begin offering non-stop flights between Baltimore and Dallas in October, the airline said Monday.

• Business

Southwest eyes regional expansion with 54 new slots at Reagan airport

Southwest Airlines has won 54 slots recently vacated amid federal litigation at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, expanding its already-large presence in the region.

• Southwest Airlines

Southwest to make first international flights as it takes over AirTran routes

Southwest Airlines planes will make their first international flights July 1, including flights between Baltimore and Aruba, the Bahamas and Jamaica, with more destinations to be added as the carrier assumes routes flown by subsidiary AirTran by the end of the year.

• Business

Southwest joins TSA pre-check program, opens new security lane at BWI

Trusted fliers using Southwest Airlines out of BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport will now have a quicker and less invasive path through security, the Transportation Security Administration announced Thursday.

• Jobs and Workplace

Baltimore-based flight attendant leading Southwest contract negotiations

Audrey Stone, 36, doesn't hesitate when asked how long current contract negotiations will last between Southwest Airlines and the flight attendants union she leads. "As long as it takes," she says on a recent morning in a small cafe in Baltimore — a city she has called home since 2004.

• Maryland

Texas man charged with trying to open exit on plane from BWI

A Texas man was indicted in federal court Thursday amid accusations he unsuccessfully tried to open the emergency hatch on an in-air flight from Baltimore to Austin earlier this week, prosecutors said.

• Opinion

Airport competition

Airport competition

• Opinion

Where was DOJ in Southwest-AirTran merger?

Where was the government's outrage when Southwest and AirTran merged two years ago?

• Business

State officials push for $125 million BWI expansion project

The O'Malley administration is launching a three-year, $125 million construction project that will set the table for more international flights from BWI Marshall Airport.

• Business

Southwest, BWI aim for international flights

With the unveiling this week of blueprints for a $156 million international terminal at Houston's Hobby International Airport, Southwest signaled its commitment to go beyond its domestic low-cost image and get into the global game. Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, the third-busiest for Southwest and top performer on the East Coast, is ready to be part of that commitment.

• AirTran

Temporary checkpoint closures set this week at BWI

Temporary checkpoint closures set this week at BWI

• Consumers

Southwest fined for late, incomplete action on consumer complaints

Southwest Airlines was fined $150,000 Wednesday for failing to respond to consumer complaints in a timely fashion, the Department of Transportation announced.

• Business

First phase of $100 million BWI upgrade opens to passengers

The first phase of BWI Marshall Airport's $100 million upgrade to the oldest part of the terminal opened Tuesday morning, with nine new security check stations and a broad walkway to speed passengers making connections among three concourses.

• Business

Southwest posts lower first-quarter profit on record revenue

Higher airfares and lower fuel prices combined to give Southwest Airlines $59 million in first-quarter net profits, or 8 cents a share, beating Wall Street's predictions.

• Travel

Southwest offers four new cities from BWI

Southwest Airlines new flights

• Business

Travelers report long lines at BWI as spring break kicks off

Frustrated travelers reported long lines at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on Friday morning, as crowds jammed into terminals on their way out of town as local schools prepared to let out for spring break.

• Travel

Traveling weather or not

Tony Pann's celebrity traveler tips

• Business

BWI sets passenger record for 2012; overseas travel increases

For the third consecutive year, BWI Marshall Airport has set a record for passenger traffic. In 2012, the airport handled 22.68 million passengers, a 1.3 percent increase over 2011 totals.

• Travel

Celebrity traveler: A Raven in Paradise

Ravens defensive end chills on the beach in his off-season.

• Latest

More holiday travel expected despite gas prices

More Maryland residents are planning holiday trips than last year, and most are traveling by automobile despite local gas prices that are the highest they have ever been at this time of year, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.

• Business

To stay competitive, BWI 'moves at the speed of business'

BWI Marshall is spending more than a half-billion dollars on terminal expansion and runway improvements to stay ahead of the competition

• Business

As holiday nears, BWI moves to ease crunch on land, in air

BWI Marshall Airport begins new security screening, prepares to reopen its longest runway as holiday season approaches

• Business

Transportation creeps back after Sandy slams area

Transportation creeps back after Sandy slams area.

• Travel

Travelers in the region stranded by Sandy

• Business

Southwest expands BWI service with new flights

Southwest and AirTran to begin flights to Dominican Republic and Flint, Mich.

• Business

Southwest, union ask federal mediator to assist stalled contract talks

Southwest Airlines and the union representing 8,500 ground employees have asked the National Mediation Board to assist in contract talks after 14 months of negotiations failed to produce a deal.

• Travel

For Boog Powell, Key West is favorite place to travel

Boog Powell, celebrity traveler

• Business

Thanksgiving airfare bargain hunters must look even earlier this year

Thanksgiving airfare bargain hunters will have to begin looking especially early this year.

• Business

Southwest adding Fort Lauderdale flights from BWI

Southwest Airlines and subsidiary AirTran Airways announced Wednesday that they will add as many as four daily nonstop flights between BWI Marshall Airport and Fort Lauderdale, beginning Sept. 6.

• Business

Southwest cutting three daily BWI flights to LaGuardia

A week after heralding the arrival of two airlines to the fold, BWI Marshall Airport is dealing with the loss of Southwest Airlines' three daily nonstop flights to New York's LaGuardia Airport.

• Latest

Spirit, Condor airlines announce new service from BWI

Spirit Airlines and Condor Airlines announce new service from BWI.

• Business

Southwest loses No. 1 customer rating to rival JetBlue Airways

For the first time in nearly two decades, Southwest Airlines, the biggest commercial carrier at BWI Marshall Airport, does not sit atop the annual American Customer Satisfaction Index.

• Travel

Southwest offers 72-hour fall fare sale starting at $49

For 72 hours only, Southwest Airlines is offering a fall fare sale with one-way nonstop flights starting at $49.

• Latest

BWI begins $100 million project to upgrade oldest part of terminal

Work has begun on a $100 million upgrade of the oldest portion of BWI to streamline security screening and allow passengers to move among the three busiest concourses without having to pass through security a second time.

• Maryland

A need for speed for new racing team

The team promoting Baltimore's Grand Prix — a group announced by city officials this week following the collapse of two other race organizers — has fewer than four months to hawk sponsorships, market the event, sell tickets and set up the race course and grandstands.

• Business

Southwest takes off with new jet

Southwest rolls out its new Boeing 737-800 series jet with fanfare at BWI.

• Travel

JetBlue (Southwest, too) offering 24-hour airfare sale

• Maryland

Southwest to launch new, and improved, jets this month

BWI will be one of the first airports to get new jets from Southwest.

• Latest

For second year in a row, BWI sets passenger record

For second year in a row, BWI sets passenger record in 2011.

• Business

BWI among airports to adopt prescreening program

Pre-check program to be expanded to 28 U.S. airports, including BWI.

• AirTran

BWI flights to Sarasota, Huntsville will disappear

• Features

Ravens fans ready to make the trek to Foxborough

Flushed with Sunday's victory and with many off work for Monday's holiday, Ravens fans have started planning their next offensive: Foxborough or bust.

• Travel

Flight ready

10 things holiday travelers needs to know before you go to BWI

• Travel

State approves $100 million renovation of BWI

State approves a $100 million renovation of BWI Airport.

• Litigation and Regulation

American Airlines' Chapter 11 puts spotlight on Southwest

American Airlines' filing for a Chapter 11 reorganization leaves Southwest as the only major airline that has not filed for bankruptcy.