Earlier this year, Delta Air Lines was named the most punctual airline in North America for the fifth consecutive year. This was according to Cirium’s On-Time Performance Review, with 80.9 per cent of its 1.8 million flights in 2025 arriving within 15 minutes of schedule. The number needs context. It represented a 1.7 percentage point lead over the nearest competitor, achieved with more than four times the flight volume, and made Delta the only US carrier in Cirium's global t

For fourteen years, the first price an American saw when shopping for a flight had to be the real one, taxes and fees included. The Transportation Department is now moving to change that, and the fight over it runs through the comment window that stays open until 21 August. The proposed rule, "Enhancing Flexibility of Air Fare Price Advertising," would loosen the Obama-era full-fare standard that took effect in 2012. Under current rules, the components of a fare may be listed

The surge that carried US container ports to a record summer is receding, and the second half of the year is shaping up to be far quieter than the first. The early peak season is winding down, as the retailers who accelerated imports to get ahead of new tariffs run out of reasons to keep pulling cargo forward. For months the calculus was simple: bring it in now, before the duties bite. That window has closed, and the volume that was borrowed from the autumn has already landed

The starkest fact about the American truck-manufacturing business this week is that its largest player is shutting a historic factory at the very moment it expects demand to rise. Daimler Truck North America confirmed it will end production at its Swan Island plant in Portland, Oregon, on 30 October, closing a site that has built trucks since 1947 and ending 84 years of Freightliner manufacturing in the city. A state filing puts the layoffs at 387, most of them union members