Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has asked the DOT’s inspector general to examine the process the FAA used to certify the Boeing 737 MAX as safe to fly before two of the planes went down in fatal ...

At least one person isn’t afraid to fly on a 737 MAX — Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. According to a tipster on the same plane, Chao was spotted taking a nonstop flight Tuesday from Austin, ...

Count U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao as one traveler unbowed by concerns about the Boeing 737 MAX 8. Chao reportedly took a nonstop flight from Austin, Texas, to Washington, D.C., aboard ...

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao had an emotional first meeting Tuesday in her Washington offices with family members of Boeing 737 Max crash victims. The meeting came six months to the day after ...

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao was grilled at a budget hearing Wednesday on her oversight of aviation safety, as multiple inquiries continue into two crashes of Boeing 737 Max planes. Citing a ...

Former Delta Air Lines executive and pilot Stephen M. Dickson was nominated Tuesday to take over as administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, an agency facing questions about its handling ...

Southwest operated 34 Max jets when the FAA grounded the planes in March, but was scheduled to get another 44 planes during 2019. Southwest Airlines is joining two other U.S. airlines in removing ...