WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Air Transport Association of America (ATA), the industry trade organization for the leading U.S.

By DAVID HUNT Seven plane tickets for $450. Seven of them - round-trip, too - and Danielle Dolan thought she had her summer planned. She'd heard great things about Skybus Airlines. What the company was calling "outrageously cheap fares" seemed to be pretty accurate.

By Chris Kahn Associated Press PHOENIX -- Your ginger-ale doesn't come in a glass anymore on most US Airways flights. On Delta you'll find yourself in a thinner, lighter seat.

Sooner than you might think, cooking oil, coal, plants and garbage may be the stuff fueling jumbo jets. "We want it. And unlike car drivers, we'll use it," said John Heimlich, chief economist of the Air Transport Association of America.

By DAN CATERINICCHIA WASHINGTON -- Rising fuel costs will be the main culprit cutting into U.S. airlines' profits this year, with credit market turmoil and slowing passenger demand also expected to hamper the industry. High jet-fuel prices will limit U.S.