Tag: Federal Aviation Administration

Groups look to the Senate to fix crumbling airports

Diana Stancy Correll · May 15, 2018 4:00 am

Southwest Airlines expects bookings to decline in the aftermath of an accident that led to a passenger's death in April.

Southwest diverts plane due to broken window

Joe Williams · May 2, 2018 4:47 pm

The FAA will also require 2 controllers in the tower.

House approves FAA bill with new consumer and safety reforms

Susan Ferrechio · April 27, 2018 3:37 pm

In this photo, an air traffic controller works in the tower at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J.

The dream of a privatized air traffic control system dies next week

Susan Ferrechio · April 22, 2018 4:00 am

In this Wednesday Sept. 9, 2015, file photo, radio host Glenn Beck speaks during a Tea Party rally against the Iran deal on the West Lawn of the Capitol in Washington. SiriusXM announced May 31, 2016, that Beck was being suspended over his comments in a May 25, 2016, interview with author Brad Thor.

Glenn Beck puts personal plane on the market: Report

Diana Stancy Correll · April 17, 2018 10:49 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2014 file photo, a Southwest Airlines plane with a new paint job flies over Love Field in Dallas. On Monday, Oct. 13, 2014, Southwest will launch its first long-distance flights from its home base at Dallas Love Field to seven cities across the country, with eight more destinations next month. Such flights were prohibited until now by a longtime law that protected Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport by limiting flights from Love Field to a few nearby states.

Passenger killed when Southwest commercial jet’s engine fails mid-flight

Tristan Justice, James Langford · April 17, 2018 7:55 pm

Workers fix a sewer main below the sidewalk in Mid City New Orleans, on Jan. 31, 2018. The city of New Orleans is perhaps one of the best examples of what President Trump calls the countryâs âcrumbling infrastructure.â City officials say New Orleans needs more than $11 billion to update key parts of its infrastructure. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Infrastructure overhaul stuck in traffic

Diana Stancy Correll · April 17, 2018 4:00 am

National Security

Steven Mnuchin’s KY trip on a military aircraft coinciding with the solar eclipse cost $33K, watchdog finds

Melissa Quinn · March 15, 2018 8:26 pm

Florida school shooting survivor hits senators for talking about dogs dying on airplanes instead of gun control

Melissa Quinn · March 15, 2018 6:40 pm

"Airports need flexibility and local control to finance major construction projects. This market-driven reform will help modernize our nation's airports and return power to local decision-makers," said Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., in a statement last year after the bill was introduced.

Air traffic control won’t be privatized. Now what?

Diana Stancy Correll · March 13, 2018 5:01 am

"We are going to break [the infrastructure bill] into pieces," Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., (pictured center-right) said to employees at a Home Depot Store Support Center in Atlanta on Thursday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Paul Ryan: House will pass infrastructure bill ‘in pieces’

Susan Ferrechio · March 8, 2018 9:28 pm

After rumors began to fly Monday that President Trump intended to nominate his personal pilot to head the Federal Aviation Administration, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said he'd prefer a candidate that would face an easier confirmation on the Hill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

John Thune warns Trump not to nominate his personal pilot as FAA administrator

Naomi Lim · February 27, 2018 2:37 am