Tempe-based US Airways boosted starting ramp workers wages at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport a whopping 20 percent Thursday.

Tempe-based US Airways’ plan to combine reservations for US Airways and America West flights is on schedule for an early Sunday takeoff.

Tempe-based US Airways’ attempted takeover of Delta Air Lines is a dead deal. For now, at least.

Across the street from the US Airways headquarters in Tempe, religious leaders from several denominations assembled Friday to rally against the airline’s removal of six Muslim imams from a Nov. 20 US Airways flight.

U.S. Airways is seeking incentives from Phoenix and two other important cities in its system for a consolidated operations center the carrier plans to set up by early 2009.

US Airways passengers likely will be boarding flights from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport to Europe within the next two years. By 2010, the company will have Airbus A330-200s, planes capable of flying long-haul destinations from Phoenix, said US Airways president Scott Kirby.

US Airways will sack 600 of its airport workers this fall, citing declining business travel that's driving down the Tempe-based carrier's revenue. It's too soon to know how many cuts will come from each city in the carrier's network, including its home base at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, said Valerie Wunder, a US Airways spokeswoman.

Tempe-based US Airways is not daunted or distracted from its mission of merging with Delta Air Lines despite the bankrupt carrier’s attempt to fast-track its stand-alone plan. But stay tuned for the latest volley in an increasingly bitter battle for the air.

US Airways may not perform as well financially as it thought following a merger with America West Airlines, the company said in a government filing this week.

PARIS - US Airways Group Inc. has signed a contract to buy 92 Airbus aircraft, confirming a deal announced in June, Airbus said Friday.

US Airways expanded its operations in Tempe on Friday by opening two office buildings that can handle as many as 800 employees. The carrier has moved some 700 employees into 150,000 square feet — about the size of three traditional grocery stores — at the Rio West Business Park at Priest Drive and Rio Salado Parkway.

Keyed tightly to the Valley’s burgeoning tourism industry and its growing reputation as a major commercial core are the transportation businesses that ferry vacationers, corporate leaders and packages in and out of town.

Flight attendants, pilots and a larger than life-sized puppet of US Airways CEO Doug Parker picketed in front of the company’s Tempe headquarters today.

Taxpayers have been giving incentives to Tempe’s hometown airline since 1998 to construct a building that still doesn’t exist — but officials say it’s about to become real.

Development at the US Airways headquarters in downtown Tempe is finally ready for takeoff. The carrier has chosen a development adviser that will help decide what should be built on the four acres where its nine-story building sits.

Anyone looking for widespread relief from extra airline fees for such items as checked bags or choice seats had better not expect it to happen anytime soon.

US Airways chief Doug Parker will spend a day in jail after defying his lawyer’s advice and pleading guilty Tuesday to drunken driving.

America West Holdings Corp., the Tempe-based parent of America West Airlines, and US Airways Group made it official this afternoon: they will merge to form a low-fare carrier operating under the US Airways name.

America West Airlines will change its name of more than two decades and merge with US Airways in a deal that is expected to create a $10 billion global carrier headquartered in Tempe.