Tag: Travel

Report: Major glitches plagued LAX terminal

Washington Examiner · March 15, 2014 4:35 pm

In this March 12, 2014 photo, Italian Luigi Maraldi whose stolen passport was used by a passenger boarding a missing Malaysia Airlines plane, shows his passport as he speaks to a reporter at Phuket police station in Phuket province, southern Thailand. Maraldi lost his passport when he hired a motorbike on Phuket last year. When he returned to the shop to retrieve his passport, he was told it had been given away to someone who looked just like him. His passport, along with another stolen in Phuket two years earlier, was used to board the ill-fated flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing undetected, revealing startling shortcomings in the security of international travel. Interpol said it maintains a global database of 40 million lost or stolen travel documents. The organization said only a handful of countries actually check the database before allowing passengers to board international flights. Malaysia and Thailand are not among them. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Missing plane throws spotlight on passport theft

Thanyarat Doksone · March 15, 2014 7:08 am

Mexican border city hopes to lure spring breakers

Olga Rodriguez · March 9, 2014 12:40 pm

Coast Guard in Va. helps cruise ship passenger

Washington Examiner · March 9, 2014 12:16 pm

BWI is experiencing a boom in international travel

Kathy Orton · March 9, 2014 11:38 am

Delta spells out miles needed to earn free flights

David Koenig · March 6, 2014 10:23 pm

Gov’t weighs permitting cellphone calls on planes

JOAN LOWYSCOTT MAYEROWITZ · November 21, 2013 10:11 pm

Washington Secrets

Mayday: Thanksgiving airport congestion will soon be year-round reality

Paul Bedard · November 20, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - This Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013 file photo shows an American Airlines plane and a US Airways plane at parked at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport. On Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, the Justice Department says it has reached an agreement to allow the merger of the two airlines. The agreement requires them to scale back the size of the merger at key airports in Washington and other big cities. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Government reaches agreement to allow airline merger

Washington Examiner · November 12, 2013 5:00 am

Seat belts on commercial buses have been delayed 45 years

Washington Examiner · November 12, 2013 5:00 am

Politico: FAA to let the iPads fly

Washington Examiner · October 31, 2013 4:00 am

Capt. Oscar Vela stands on a rooftop at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Monday, Oct. 28, 2013, in Seattle. The modernization of the U.S. air traffic control system, one of the governmentâs most ambitious and complex technology programs, is in trouble. The Next Generation Air Transportation System, or NextGen, was sold to Congress and the public by the Federal Aviation Administration a decade ago as a way to accommodate an anticipated surge in air travel, reduce fuel consumption and improve safety and efficiency. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Air traffic control modernization hits turbulence

Washington Examiner · October 31, 2013 4:00 am