Sep 13 Watch 3:31 Smaller cities hit hardest by airline mergers By PBS News Hour Airline mergers over the last few years have resulted in fewer flights in the U.S., as well as a disparity in service and ticket prices between large and small cities. Jack Nicas of the Wall Street Journal joins Hari Sreenivasan… Continue watching
Aug 27 Watch 8:46 Court gives SeaTac workers a raise after $15 minimum wage exclusion By PBS News Hour In SeaTac, Washington, home of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, citizens voted in 2013 to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. But airport businesses challenged the law in court, excluding 5,000 or so workers from receiving the increased benefits. Continue watching
Mar 05 Video: Flight landing at LaGuardia skids off runway By Margaret Myers A Delta flight landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport skidded off the runway Thursday morning before coming to a rest against an embankment. No injuries have been reported. Continue reading
Oct 21 Outgoing West Africa travelers redirected to 5 U.S. airports for Ebola screenings By Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Everyone coming to the United States from the three West African countries at the center of the Ebola outbreak will now be screened for the deadly disease at one of five airports, the Homeland Security Department said Tuesday. Continue reading
Oct 10 Ebola airport screenings supported by federal law, experts say By Eric Tucker, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's plans to screen certain airline passengers for exposure to Ebola are based on the Constitution and long-established legal authority that would almost certainly stand up in court if challenged, public health experts say. Continue reading
Sep 26 Intentionally set fire grounds flights at Chicago airports By Ariel Min A fire at an air traffic control facility outside of Chicago, which authorities said was intentionally set by a contract employee of the Federal Aviation Administration, grounded all flights into and out of two Chicago airports on Friday. Continue reading
Sep 24 Deer prove dangerous to airports and pilots By Joan Lowy, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Long the bane of gardeners and unwary motorists, soaring deer populations are also nuisances for airports and threats to pilots, especially at this time of year, according to aviation and wildlife experts. Continue reading
Jul 03 U.S. tightens security at overseas airports with direct flights into the country By Ken Dilanian, Eileen Sullivan, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- U.S. intelligence officials are concerned that al-Qaida is trying to develop a new and improved bomb that could go undetected through airport security. Continue reading
Jun 13 Air traffic controllers working exhausting schedules, report finds By Joan Lowy, Associated Press Three years after a series of incidents in which controllers were found to be sleeping on the job, a National Research Council report released Friday expressed astonishment that the Federal Aviation Administration still permits controllers to work schedules that cram… Continue reading
Feb 10 Passenger and cargo planes' wrong landings more common than previously thought By Associated Press U.S. commercial air carriers have landed or started to land at the wrong airports at least 150 times since the early 1990s, according to a search by The Associated Press of government safety databases and media reports. And the problem… Continue reading