Tag: Federal Aviation Administration

Airports face delays due to staffing shortages

Diana Stancy Correll · January 25, 2019 4:09 pm

Passengers stand in line as they wait to pass through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at LaGuardia airport Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, in New York.

Beltway Confidential

Will FAA halting flights into New York’s LaGuardia airport be the beginning of the end of the shutdown?

Philip Klein · January 25, 2019 3:44 pm

Proposed drone rule raises privacy concerns

Diana Stancy Correll · January 25, 2019 5:00 am

Terry Brown, of Alaska Airlines, makes adjustments on a computer terminal at a gate in the new passenger terminal at Paine Field, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019, in Everett, Wash. Alaska Airlines says it will delay the start of commercial passenger service at the new terminal by at least three weeks due to the ongoing partial shutdown of the federal government, as the officials who must sign off on a final environmental assessment are on furlough.

Aviation workers warn the shutdown has created ‘unprecedented’ risk in flying

Sean Higgins · January 24, 2019 5:51 pm

Elaine Chao has an eye for allowing drones in the night sky

Diana Stancy Correll · January 14, 2019 11:55 pm

Schumer squeezes FAA on shrinking airline seats

Diana Stancy Correll · November 27, 2018 12:00 am

It's unclear whether Grabell read past Bloomberg's headline before he remarked on the story. (Brad Nettles/The Post and Courier via AP, File)

US regulators scrutinize Boeing’s 737 MAX after deadly Lion Air crash

Joe Williams · November 16, 2018 5:15 pm

A Boeing 737 MAX 7, the newest version of Boeing's fastest-selling airplane, is displayed during a debut for employees and media of the new jet Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, in Renton, Wash. The company says that the airplane improves on the design of its predecessor, the 737-700, with more capability, range and seats. Following upcoming flight tests, it is expected to be delivered to airline customers beginning in 2019.

Boeing warns airlines of 737 MAX sensor glitch after deadly crash

Joe Williams · November 7, 2018 9:14 am

The battle over shrinking airplane seats

Diana Stancy Correll · October 16, 2018 4:00 am

Congress authorizes feds to ‘disrupt’ drones, worrying civil libertarians

Steven Nelson · October 13, 2018 10:46 pm

Drones are already being used to study whales in the oceans, to monitor hard-to-access ecosystems, to affordably plant trees in depleted forests, and for an array of military purposes. (Sanjit Das/Bloomberg)

National Security

Drones swamp US-Mexico border but federal agents powerless to stop them

Anna Giaritelli · October 13, 2018 3:03 am

The Justice Department, six states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the merger of US Airways and American Airlines Tuesday.

Airlines defeat an ‘existential threat’ in FAA funding bill

Joe Williams · September 24, 2018 7:12 pm