Experts are calling it the worst year in the history of aviation, but New York grasped at some normalcy Wednesday as Governor Andrew Cuomo cut a ribbon at a new LaGuardia Airport concourse.
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Three budget airlines on Wednesday lost their challenge to a European Union ruling that they received illegal aid from Italy.
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Police have yet to release the name of a man who was killed Thursday night when he was struck by an incoming plane at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.
Read moreA federal judge put a spotlight on the Department of Homeland Security with a pair of Wednesday rulings, the first of which suggests a possible coverup on why the agency shut New Yorkers out of Global Entry.
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With far fewer people flying because of travel restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic, airport security screeners are naturally finding fewer guns in carry-on baggage.
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The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday dismissed Maryland’s effort to readjust three north-to-south flight paths at Reagan National Airport over noise concerns, finding the state’s challenge came too late.
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Campaigners won a court ruling Thursday to block the plan for a third runway at Heathrow Airport on environmental grounds, setting the stage for a new fight over whether to make Europe’s biggest airport even bigger.
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King County, Washington, is illegally prohibiting immigration deportation flights at county-owned Boeing Field, a suit filed Monday by the U.S. Justice Department claims.
Read moreA federal class action claims the Transportation Security Administration and Drug Enforcement Administration unconstitutionally seize cash from travelers at airports, including the life’s savings of the lead plaintiff’s father, which he needed for medical care.
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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.
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