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IAA to operate a situation room to manage complications arising from strike, as well as handling of arriving, departing flights.

If operators of California Pacific Airlines have their way, they'll soon be flying out of tiny McClellan Palomar Airport in Carlsbad to the Bay Area, Las Vegas and, perhaps, Mexico. "The county has done air services studies," said assistant airport manager Olivier Brackett. "The airline has done air services studies and gauged demand for flights out of this airport." Demand for such a venture i...

Aviation accident investigators have identified problems with an engine on a plane which crashed a year ago in thick fog at Cork Airport.

We're just glad that nobody seems to have been seriously injured! Yesterday afternoon, Justin Bieber's bodyguard got into a fight with a paparazzo who reportedly got "too close" to the Biebs' car at LAX. After the fight began, the bodyguard quickly got the pap into a headlock, followed by a hard punch to the pap's face. Ouch. Despite [...]

If you’re feeling stressed out at the San Francisco International Airport, there’s a new place to relax while you wait for your flight: A yoga room

While temperatures tonight are due to plummet to as low as -13C in some places, the Siberian icy blast is far from over with the big freeze due to last well into the weekend.

The Thomas Cook Airbus A320 landed safely just before 11.30am after developing a problem with its undercarriage.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- A passenger plane made a safe emergency landing Tuesday after developing technical problems, Belfast International Airport said....

Emergency crews were on standby in Belfast after Thomas Cook flight reported problems with landing gearA passenger plane has made a successful emergency landing at Belfast international airport after reporting problems with its landing gear.Emergency crews were on standby at Aldergrove airport as a flight to Tenerife reported difficulties shortly after take-off.The Airbus 320 Thomas Cook servic...

Lindsay Lohan leaves airport looking like she's wearing a shaved dog

Staff at Galway Airport are staging a sit-in protest until they receive assurances they will be paid their statutory redundancy entitlements.

Heathrow will always struggle to cope with snow because the airport is full, the airport operator has admitted.

Every spring, when West Yellowstone Airport in Montana opens for the season, the TSA flies in six people to staff the airport's one-lane security checkpoint. Every fall, it flies the screeners home.

Don't you know that messing with the Biebs means messing with the whole posse?! Justin Bieber was reportedly trying to leave Los Angeles International Airport today when an...

Justin Bieber's bodyguard -- a former Israeli soldier -- just laid the smackdown on an overly aggressive paparazzo -- not ours -- at LAX airport moments ago ... according to sources connected with the Biebs.Sources inside Bieber's camp tell us,…

As 2014 World Cup, 2016 Olympics approach, president balances leftist policies against much-needed infrastructure investments

Beim Bieterrennen um die drei wichtigsten Flughäfen Brasiliens ist der Frankfurter Flughafenbetreiber Fraport leer ausgegangen. Den Zuschlag für den größten Airport erhielt eine Firmengruppe um den ACSA-Konzern.

Consortiums Invepar-ACSA, Aeroportos Brasil and Inframérica have won concessions to operate Brazil's Guarulhos, Viracopos and Brasília airports at an auction that raised 24.5bn reais (US$14.3bn) in to...

Heathrow Airport is expected to operate at close to normal today after snowfall on the weekend disrupted travel including causing the cancellation of about 50 per cent of flights yesterday.

BAA has said services at Heathrow are expected to be back to normal and that some 500 fewer flights operated out of the airport on Sunday.

Mr. Cohen was president of the Hudson County News Company, a newspaper distributorship, when it went into the retail field in the mid-1970s by taking over a newsstand at the Newark airport.

San Francisco International Airport has opened a yoga room for passengers who want a Zen moment amid the stress of travel.

Flights arriving in the city from London were delayed inordinately on Sunday after heavy snowfall disrupted schedules at Heathrow airport.

In the wake of heavy snowfall and severe weather warnings, London’s Heathrow Airport cancelled 30 per cent of flights that were scheduled to take off on Sunday.

The man, whose name is not being released, was trapped underneath a Japan Airlines flight at a Washington state airport before being removed and taken to an area hospital.

After several years of stopgap financing, a longterm plan will help pay for such items as airport expansion.

The nation's wealthiest football fans are descending in droves on Indianapolis for Sunday's Super Bowl, setting off a scramble by airport officials in this modest Midwest hub to accommodate the influx of private jets.

Arriving at Washington DC's Reagan National airport last year, I, like other visitors, was greeted with large signs featuring the Statue of Liberty and the words: “Welcome to America, home to 5% of the world's people and 25% of the world's prisoners.” The posters were produced by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to help publicise their “Misplaced Priority: ...

Steve Appleton, the chairman and CEO of Micron Technology, has died in a plane crash, the company confirmed Friday. He was 51. Appleton was repo…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The chief executive and chairman of the Boise-based memory chip maker Micron died Friday morning when a small, experimental fixed-wing plane he was piloting crashed at the Boise airport, the company said....

An aircraft carrying more than 60 passengers was guided in to land by a low-paid fireman speaking broken English after air traffic controllers at an Indian airport failed to turn up for work.

A fireman guides a plane to land at an airport in India after air traffic controllers fail to turn up for work, it emerges.

A baggage handler and a former baggage handler for Delta Airlines were arrested Thursday on suspicion of stealing tens of thousands of dollars in cash and property from passengers' luggage at Los Angeles International Airport, law enforcement authorities told The...

'NY Post': Talya Ben-Eliezer detained at Kennedy airport on outstanding drug charges, to be extradited to Florida.

"Boyke" hat wieder zugeschlagen: Der immer wieder höchst erfolgreiche Zollspürhund hat am Flughafen Schwechat nicht nur einer Frau das Handwerk gelegt, die in zwei Buddha-Statuen 4,5 Kilogramm Cannabisharz versteckt hatte, sondern auch einen Mann entlarvt, der eine große Summe Geld außer Landes bringen wollte.

Both stars traveled in head-to-toe designer looks on Wednesday

EX-WORLD heavyweight champ held back by minders after an airport security man treads on his wife's toes

Berlin (ots) - Fluglärm hin, Flugrouten her - Berlins neuer Flughafen Willy Brandt scheint zu halten, was seine Erbauer und Fürsprecher von ihm erwarten: In Deutschlands Hauptstadt wird die Tür in die weite Welt noch weiter aufgestoßen, der Airport BER zumindest für die großen ...

BAA has failed in its latest attempt to overturn a Competition Commission ruling that it must sell Stansted Airport.

Did Justin Bieber engage in some less-than-first-class behavior in France recently? The 17-year-old heartthrob reportedly snubbed roughly two dozen Beliebers at Nice Côte d'Azur...

Release Time:  For Immediate Release On Tuesday, January 31, 2012, the President signed into law: H.R. 3800, the "Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2012," which extends through February 17, 2012, authorities to collect taxes that fund the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, make expenditures from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, ...

It’s always in the fine print. An airport security screening regulation put into place in Canada in July is drawing attention from some critics who fear it could prevent transgender people from being able to fly. Read full article >>

Dense fog delayed 35 flights at an airport in the central Chinese city of Changsha, Hunan province, Tuesday, leaving about 3,000 passengers stranded, airport authorities said.

A robust growth has been registered in airport retail market in India, as the revenue topped $1 billion during 2011.

As part of his Mondo 2000 History Project, R.U. Sirius uploaded a couple of Robert Anton Wilson recordings from a Reality Hackers Forum from 1988. He writes: I can’t remember if having RAW give a lecture titled “The CIA-Vatican-Cocaine Conspiracy” was his idea or ours. I think it was our idea based on the fact [...]

TAMPA, Fla. -- Here's a good description of the disorganization bordering on chaos that regularly surrounds Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign. The former House speaker was...

(Reuters) - Just cleared airport security and in need of a little deep breathing and stretching relaxation?

In a fun convergence of dumb social media behavior and bureaucratic ineptitude, two idiotic Brits were detained by armed guards at Los Angeles International Airport for incredibly dumb (but totally harmless) tweets about "destroying America" and "diggin' up Marilyn Monroe." More »

Airport retail business in India topped $1 billion in revenues during 2011, on the back of robust growth in passenger traffic and more people shopping on the go, according to a boutique retail consultancy.

NEW YORK  - Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is due to step down next month, arrived Saturday in New York on a politically loaded visit to seek medical treatment for bombing wounds. The embattled leader flew from Oman to the United States with a brief refueling stop at Stansted Airport outside London, ending days of speculation about his whereabouts and travel plans. ...

Boise Airport officials: American Airlines passenger jet going from Chicago to Seattle landed in Boise after pilot reported engine failure.

Fleeing the UK couldn't come at a more opportune time for 17-year-old Harry Styles, as he attempts to mend his broken heart following his split with Caroline Flack.

A chartered aircraft carrying Congress leaders, Jairam Ramesh and Pramod Tewari, reportedly had a close shave when it escaped a collision with another aircraft of Saudia Airlines at Amausi airport late on Friday evening.

(Photo Credit: Reuters) The week's top quotes in politics ... "We could see an October surprise a day from Newt Gingrich." — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney taking aim at Newt Gingrich "It used to be pious baloney, now it's desperate baloney." — GOP White House hopeful Newt Gingrich's new nickname for Romney's rhetoric. "...well, you kind of get your panties in a wad, and you may...

POLICE are examining 'organic matter' found at Kyeemagh Beach near Sydney International Airport to see if it is human.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A tense airport exchange with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, in which she wagged her finger in his face, was blown out of proportion, President Barack Obama said in an ABC News interview on Thursday.

AURORA, Colo. — President Obama’s raw exchange with the governor of Arizona on an airport tarmac this week did more than overshadow his carefully stage-managed road trip to trumpet his State of the Union goals. Read full article >>

Nach langem Warten haben die Anwohner jetzt Klarheit: Die Maschinen am neuen Hauptstadtflughafen werden über Naherholungsgebiete im Südosten Berlins fliegen. Bürgermeister Wowereit und Brandenburgs Ministerpräsident Platzek wollen in der Diskussion um den Fluglärm vermitteln - doch Bürgerinitiativen kündigten bereits eine Beschwerde bei der EU-Kommission an.

Das Bundesaufsichtsamt für Flugsicherung hat die Flugrouten für den neuen Berliner Flughafen weitgehend bestätigt. Damit müssen besonders Anwohner im Südwesten der Hauptstadt und im Südosten am Müggelsee mit Lärmbelästigungen rechnen. Der Flughafen Berlin-Brandenburg soll im Juni den Betrieb aufnehmen.

Babatope Felix Adewole has a complicated relationship with passports. While travelling on his Canadian passport, Mr. Adewole was found with 16 Nigerian passports and someone else’s identity card strapped to his leg at Heathrow airport in London, England

David Cameron is facing a revolt from Tory MPs over his readiness to consider Boris Johnson's plans for a new airport in the Thames Estuary because they say it will cause huge environmental damage.

Virginia Beach, close to Virginia Airport in Durban North, will be hosting a flash mob dance on Saturday January 28, 2012.

Group keeps faith in switch from UK high street to focus on airport and railway station concourses

Republican U.S. presidential hopeful Ron Paul is having a fundraiser on the back of his son Senator Rand Paul’s detention for refusing an airport patdown

January 24th marks a year since one of the largest terrorist acts that occurred in Russia during the recent years. It goes about the explosion at Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport. Magomed Yevloev, a 21-year-old suicide bomber, a resident of the village of Ali-Yurt, Ingushetia, detonated his explosive device on January 24, 2011

Was tun mit der Wartezeit zwischen den Flügen? Eine sinnvolle Möglichkeit: zum Arzt gehen. Deutschlands Flughäfen werben mit präzise getakteten medizinischen Behandlungen um die Gunst der Nomaden. Die Grenzen setzt nur der Himmel.

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky was stopped by security at the Nashville airport Monday when a scanner set off an alarm and he declined to allow a security officer to subsequently pat him down.

Rand Paul versus the Transportation Security Administration.

An alleged member of Basque separatist group Eta can be extradited to Spain, a UK judge says.

Limpopo is considering converting the Lephalale military airstrip into a full civilian airport, provincial transport officials have said.

Raid comes in retaliation to 3 mortar shells fired into Eshkol Region; strike hits near Rafah airport, Palestinian sources report.

Am neuen Großflughafen in Berlin-Brandenburg ist ein Abschiebezentrum geplant. Wohlfahrtsverbände fordern einen Stopp des Projekts. mehr...

Les ouvriers des équipes du soir et de la nuit de Flightcare à l’aéroport de Bruxelles n’avaient pas repris le travail jeudi soir. Ils souhaitaient d’abord savoir si l...lire la suite

Terminals in LaGuardia and Kennedy and Newark Liberty International airports all rank in "The 10 Worst Airport Terminals," according to a report by Frommers.com.

The British government agreed to assess the possibility of easing heavy congestion at Heathrow and other airports by building an $80 billion airport on an island in the Thames River estuary.

Shares of OSI Systems, a maker of airport security systems and other devices, can gain close to 40%, writes Roth Capital Partners.

Ten Indian survivors from the cruise ship Costa Concordia that sank off the coast of Italy will arrive today at Chennai airport by an Emirates airlines flight at 8.15 pm.

Telegraph View: If Britain is to build trade links with emerging economic powers, it must stop dithering and commit to airport expansion.

An Air Force investigation found an Afghan military officer who shot and killed eight American airmen and a retired Army officer at the Kabul airport in April had expressed a desire to kill Americans, but investigators didn't find establish a conclusive motive.

Cape Verde has decided to re-name its Praia International Airport after South African freedom icon and former president Nelson Mandela.

Dem Essener Bauriesen Hochtief gelingt es offenbar nicht, sein Tochterunternehmen Hochtief Airport (HTA) mit Beteiligungen an sechs Flughäfen, darunter Düsseldorf, Hamburg und dem australischen Sydney, zu verkaufen.

Der Abschwung der Weltwirtschaft kommt an Deutschlands größtem Airport an. Zwar sind die Passagierzahlen im vergangenen Jahr noch gestiegen - dafür ging das Frachtaufkommen zurück. Betreiber Fraport dämpft den Ausblick.

Union says nearly 300 screeners will be laid off, but company disputes figure

The scene is the check-in counter at Auckland Airport a few days ago. It is early morning, and a queue is forming for the flight to Sydney.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is looking to monitor the levels of radiation that its employees are exposed to from X-ray technology, including airport body scanners, a document from the agency says. [More]

Kate Trevener, from Birmingham, was hours from death when a private Cessna carrying the organ from Belfast crashed at Birmingham Airport in thick fog.

GARDAÍ IN Waterford were last night continuing to question a man arrested in connection with the death of an elderly woman in a nursing home in Co Waterford early yesterday.

Die Wendt-Schwestern verdienen ihr Geld mit dem, was andere im Flieger oder am Airport vergessen haben. Die Auktionatorinnen versteigern an einem Nachmittag bis zu 500 Gepäckstücke. Was darin steckt, wissen die Käufer nie. Einen der Überraschungskoffer schnappte sich Verena Töpper.

MINING company makes audacious bid for mining rights over city's airport, national parks and peoples homes.

LONDON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - A bid battle for Scotland's biggest airport is poised to break out with the owner of London's Gatwick airport seen as an early frontrunner in a sale expected to fetch about...

Starting March 25, the airline will add flights from Reagan National Airport to 11 new destinations and three existing ones.

It was a sunny Monday in mid-December when Newt Gingrich arrived in the cafeteria of L-3 Warrior Systems, in New Hampshire. Because the company is technologically sophisticated, labor-intensive, military-affiliated, and close to the Manchester airport, it is an enticing venue for Presidential candidates. In honor of . . .

Suspension of screening credentials, not loss of employment, for guard who flunked X-ray exams

Construction started Thursday on a high-speed rail linking the city of Xi'an, home of the Terracotta Warriors, with the city's airport.

After a year of nearly-nonstop travel, I've flown airlines ranging from American to SATA, to airports as large as Shanghai's Pudong International Airport and as small as Ithaca's Tompkins Regional Airport.  Which ones can I recommend?  Which ones should be avoided?  My long-awaited picks: Best Airline: It's Virgin Atlantic, and whichever airline finished sec...

Shares in India's GVK rise more than 8% on reports that Singapore's Changi Airport Group may buy a stake in its airport unit.

The dose of radiation you get from airport X-ray scanners is very low. But whether it is low to be harmless remains a lingering question.

Ms. Madeline Loftus, 24, was just one of the 50 individuals who lost their lives on February 12, 2009 when Continental Flight 3407 crashed in a neighborhood near Buffalo, NY. The NTSB investigation and a frightening PBS Frontline investigation called "Flying Cheap" identified airline industry practices that compromise pilots' fitness for duty, including severe fatigue, as contributors...

Es gibt einen einfachen Grund, warum diese Boeing 737, die auf dem Jiuzhai Huanglong Airport in China landete, nicht verunglückte, als sie über die Landebahn hinaus schoss. Sie sank in etwas ein, das zumindest im traditionellen Sinne kein Beton ist. mehr...

Sean Penn and Cuban actress Maria Conchita Alonso were once Hollywood co-stars -- but they had an angry bust-up at LAX airport.

Former ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani on Tuesday appeared before Abbottabad Commission, formed to probe the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden on May 2. The commission met here under the chairmanship of justice retired Javed Iqbal. Haqqani told the commission that he had been informed about the US raid when he was at Heathrow Airport on his way to Pakistan. He said that allega...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called for MPs to withdraw confidence from one of his deputies on Sunday in the latest in a deepening political crisis.Meanwhile, Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi was escorted off a plane at Baghdad airport and two of his bodyguards were arrested on "terrorism charges". Hashemi, a minority Sunni, belongs to the same party as Saleh al-Mutlak, also a S...

IF Macaulay Culkin had gone to the airport with JLS, he would never have been home alone

The US defence secretary bids farewell in a low-key military ceremony outside Baghdad’s still heavily-fortified airport

Utl.: GR Valentin übernimmt Vizepräsidentschaft im ARC = Wien (OTS) - Anlässlich der Anfang Dezember in Fingal, Dublin abgehaltenen Jahreskonferenz der ARC Airport Regions Conference (Vereinigung Europäischer Flughafenregionen) wurde GR Erich Valentin zum Vizepräsidenten der Organisation ...

THE contrasting tale of the two Australian openers was on full display at Sydney airport yesterday.

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At least two people were killed in fighting that underscored the difficulties the interim government based in Benghazi is having in asserting control.

Un consortium français, Zagreb Airport International Company (ZAIC), soutenu par Aéroports de Paris et Bouygues, a présenté la seule offre valable pour la concession sur l'aéroport de la capitale croate, Zagreb, et la construction d'un nouveau terminal, a rapporté lundi l'agence officielle Hina,...

Clashes break out near the airport in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, after a convoy with the country's military chief came under attack, the army says.

A light aircraft crashed into a crowded slum near Manila's international airport today, killing 13 people, including three children.

IT'S late June and I am arriving at Athens airport for the first time. I am excited to be here but uncertain how I will feel about Greece.

As location gradually becomes more important to the on-the-go consumer, what with daily deals, check-in coupons, and local promotions, so that consumer's fine location becomes more important to merchants. GPS and wi-fi can only get you so far, though, and inside a mall or airport it's much more difficult and inefficient to narrow down a user's location to anything approaching usability. There ...

A flight attendant was the subject of a Twitter tirade from Alec Baldwin after the actor was booted from a plane at Los Angeles International Airport for playing a word game on his cell phone as the plane was about to depart for New York.

Explosives experts at Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey found five grenades in a passenger's bag on Saturday.

SYDNEY Airport plans to merge its international and domestic terminals by 2019 with the support of Qantas and Virgin Australia.

Sindh Home Minister Manzoor Wasan on Monday said the province was at risk of experiencing terrorist attacks for 72 hours, out of which 24 hours had passed and the remaining 48 hours would also pass peacefully.Speaking to media representatives at Sukkur airport, Wasan said 10,000 police personnel along with additional force were deployed in Karachi.He said more than 3,000 personnel were also dep...

Der Ex-Präsident der Elfenbeinküste, Gbagbo, ist an den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof in Den Haag überstellt worden. Ein Flugzeug mit dem 66-jährigen an Bord landete am Morgen auf dem Airport Rotterdam-Den Haag. Er muss sich wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit und Kriegsverbrechen verantworten.

More than $400,000 worth of Louis Vuitton merchandise was stolen from Paris' Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport.

Despite Sunday’s Grey Cup loss squad greeted with cheers at city airport

Dave Bidini: The Dads Gone Wild took cabs to the island airport. Eleven of us. Then we took a plane, then we landed in Newfoundland, then we took a coach with Allan Hawco’s face on it, then we took a ferry

The 15,000 delegates to the UN climate change conference convening in Durban next week will get a glimpse of South Africa's growing "green" awareness as soon as they fly into the airport.

New terminal for Queen Alia airport will increase capacity, upgrade facilities; many Arab countries also upgrading airports.

Too much carry-on luggage toted by other passengers recently emerged as the No. 1 complaint of air travelers, and with the Thanksgiving travel crush underway, Congress might consider limiting the bag fees that airlines can charge. Those per-bag fees that airlines have been charging for checked luggage have led passengers to push the carry-on limits, slowing down airport security checkpoints and...

The tight lipped Hussain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, who landed in Islamabad a couple of days ago will explain his position today to the civil and military leadership about his alleged involvement in the memo case which has stirred the nation. On Sunday, Haqqani held his meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari and reportedly discussed the whole gamut of the memo saga. T...

Travellers have been warned that their holiday reading plans could be disrupted by airport security measures, following reports that Amazon's Kindle e-reader can be damaged by X-ray scanners.

PSI India is all set to launch international OOH campaign services in addition to their niche airport advertising services. This has been developed keeping in mind the growing needs of Indian clients going global.

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union adopted new guidelines Monday on using body scanners at airports, hoping to address the privacy concerns that have delayed their implementation across the continent....

MEXICO CITY, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Mexico's Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste said on Tuesday its chairman agreed to sell a chunk of the airport operator's capital to bus company Autobuses de Oriente...

JAMES DYSON: We have lost the ambition and vision of our Victorian ancestors. We prefer to bury our head in the sand rather than to sink new foundations.

On the afternoon of monday March 14th the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy stood nervously in the lounge of Le Bourget Airport on the outskirts of Paris waiting for a private jet carrying a lone Libyan rebel to land At 62 Lévy is one of France's most famous writers and provocateurs...

On Monday morning, just past midnight, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon office issued an alarming statement that lamented that "three attack helicopters and related material from Belarus" were reportedly being delivered to former President Laurent Gbgabo's forces in the Ivory Coast. In an effort to underscore the seriousness of the transaction, Ban urged the U.N. Security Co...