Autos & Transportation

The union that represents Southwest Airlines pilots sued the airline Monday, alleging that its plan to introduce a new aircraft type into its fleet would be illegal unless the parties first negotiate rates of pay, pilot bidding and flying hours for the jetliners.

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Program will give $250,000 to software firm, human rights project for work technology targeting slavery,

CBRE report says rates for prime space near big U.S. population centers soared 9.9% in 2015 as industrial capacity remained tight.

As the summer air-travel season gets under way, airports, airlines and the Transportation Security Administration are scrambling to cut security-line waits that have grown so long that many passengers are missing flights.

Honda swung to a quarterly loss on recall-related costs and said it planned to recall 21 million more vehicles with Takata-made air-bag inflaters.

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Mobileye N.V. has agreements to provide two separate car companies with systems for fully autonomous cars in 2019, deals that give a clearer timetable for when auto makers believe they can start producing vehicles entirely capable of driving themselves.

MGF Sourcing will deliver already-ordered inventory, get rapid payment under pact that will dissolve a 10-year supplier agreement.

Nissan said it would bet more than $2 billion that Mitsubishi Motors can recover from a scandal involving falsified fuel-economy data.

Germany’s high-end car makers are struggling to meet the challenge posed by electric vehicle startups such as the U.S.’s Tesla and China’s Future Mobility.

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Nissan Motor is looking at buying about a one-third stake in Mitsubishi Motors for $1.8 billion to become its single largest shareholder.

Labor activists seeking to unionize truck drivers are targeting XPO Logistics, which acquired large fleets in the U.S. and Europe last year.

The Japanese auto maker reported its third straight year of record profit but expects the strengthening yen to snap that streak.

The world’s largest car maker delivered uninspiring results Wednesday, and a buyback gives shareholders reasons to grumble.

China’s car sales accelerated in April as a tax break continued to encourage buyers, which eased some pressure on dealers grappling with high inventory levels.

Alaska Air Group Inc. is slated to replace SanDisk Corp. in the S&P 500 index after the close of trading on Thursday, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices.

A General Motors executive credited Silicon Valley companies, including Alphabet’s Google car division and Tesla Motors, for accelerating the development of autonomous vehicle technology and shortening the timetable for when safer self-driving cars hit the road.