The city of Los Angeles sued the Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday over a shift in flight patterns for planes departing Hollywood Burbank Airport that has dramatically increased noise levels for residents and businesses.
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The Homeland Security Department is backing away from requiring that U.S. citizens submit to facial-recognition technology when they leave or enter the country.
Read moreFederal officials are considering requiring that all travelers — including U.S. citizens — be photographed as they enter or leave the country as part of an identification system using facial-recognition technology.
Read moreTwo weeks after Los Angeles airport officials moved ride-hail and taxi pickups away from terminal curbsides, the deluge of angry tweets from frustrated travelers has largely receded as overall travel times improve and the much-debated project comes into focus.
Read moreRussian customs officers have detained a woman at the Chinese border with over 4 pounds of gold in her shoes after she appeared to be walking strangely, authorities said on Tuesday.
Read moreEvery day they come. Drug mules from French Guiana in South America, carrying cocaine in their luggage or their stomachs, playing a cat-and-mouse game with customs officials at Paris’ Orly airport.
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Vying to dismantle a class action that says American Airlines forced employees to work during break time, a lawyer for the airlines told the Third Circuit on Tuesday that the specifics of each worker will vary too greatly to satisfy commonality.
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London police dragged away dozens of chanting and singing climate protesters on Thursday who tried to “occupy” an international airport serving the British capital’s global financial hub.
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South Africa says an illegal shipment of lion bones weighing 754 pounds has been seized at Johannesburg’s main airport.
Read moreA new program at Los Angeles International Airport will allow travelers to shave minutes off their boarding time, but they’ll have to step into a kiosk that uses facial recognition technology to verify their identity.
Read moreThe Third Circuit allowed an airline passenger to sue the Transportation Security Administration for “torment” and “abuse” she suffered from TSA screeners at Philadelphia International Airport, including “forcing her to crawl under a table” to reach the belongings they had taken from her, and damaged, and allegedly causing her to be falsely charged with 10 crimes.
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Flight operations resumed at Hong Kong’s airport Wednesday morning after two days of disruptions marked by outbursts of violence highlighting the hardening positions of pro-democracy protesters and the authorities in the Chinese city that’s a major international travel hub.
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Protesters crippled operations at Hong Kong’s international airport for a second day Tuesday, forcing authorities to cancel all remaining flights out of the city after demonstrators took over the terminals in their push for democratic reforms.
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One of the world’s busiest airports canceled all flights after thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters crowded into the main terminal Monday afternoon.
Read moreHong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam on Friday warned that two months of pro-democracy demonstrations were causing economic chaos in the city, but ruled out making concessions to “silence the violent protesters.”
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit on Friday grounded a company’s challenge to the Federal Aviation Administration’s attempt to clear up delays at New York’s LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy Airports, finding it lacks standing to sue the agency.
Read moreGiving a Connecticut regional airport the all-clear for expansion, the Second Circuit slammed the state Tuesday for limiting the length of the Tweed New Haven runway.
Read moreDrones buzzing around Singapore’s Changi Airport have caused 63 flights to be delayed or diverted in the past week, triggering an investigation and raising questions about the motives of the offenders.
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One person was killed and seven others were wounded in an attack by Iranian-allied Yemeni rebels on an airport in Saudi Arabia Sunday evening, the Saudi military said, as the U.S. secretary of state was on his way to the country for talks on Iran.
Read moreYemen’s Iran-allied rebels said they launched a cruise missile Wednesday at a Saudi airport, an attack the kingdom said hit the arrivals hall and wounded 26 people, hours before Japan’s prime minister was expected in Iran for a historic visit aimed at defusing tensions in the Persian Gulf.
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