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AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc., today announced that the low-fare airline will add a fourth daily nonstop flight between Pensacola, Fla.

Delta Air Lines expects to furlough 1,400 pilots instead of the 1,700 the airline estimated four months ago after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Orders to U.S. factories rose by 1.2 percent in December, suggesting that the nation's battered manufacturing sector may see better days ahead.

The Senate Commerce Committee authorized a subpoena Tuesday seeking the testimony of Kenneth Lay, the former Enron chairman who refused this week to answer questions about the collapse of the energy trading company.

It was the kind of event that the movers and shakers attending the World Economic Forum love -- a nightcap with someone even more famous, in this case Bill Clinton, with a few surprise guests showing up to add extra pizazz to the evening.

Now that he's resigned from Enron Corp.'s board of directors, Kenneth Lay is just another stockholder.

The unmanned RQ-1 Predator spy plane became a star of the war in Afghanistan in November when one operated by the CIA fired Hellfire missiles that helped destroy an al-Qaida leadership compound near Kabul.

Names of 18 Amtrak long-distance routes that could be cut in the fall, followed by the major cities they serve.

Travelers no longer could get on a train in the Northeast and connect all the way to California, or board in Florida and reach the Pacific Northwest if Amtrak goes ahead with threatened cuts to long-distance trains.

The nation's third-largest carpet maker is selling its rug division to Springs Industries Incorporated -- a home fashions manufacturer.