Tag: Air Travel

"Why is this hard to believe?" Trump Jr. tweeted. (AP)

Donald Trump Jr. takes shot at New York Times Magazine writer for being ‘surprised’ that he flies commercial

Victor I. Nava · September 28, 2017 4:19 am

Last month, Price flew a day and a half early on a private jet to St. Simons Island. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Tom Price combined professional and personal business at least twice using private jet: Report

Diana Stancy Correll · September 26, 2017 11:41 pm

"The optics in some of this don't look good," admitted Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

HHS Secretary Tom Price to stop using private jets pending reviews

Joel Gehrke · September 23, 2017 10:25 pm

The flights cost taxpayers more than $300,000 in travel expenses. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Tom Price flew on at least 24 private jets since May

Diana Stancy Correll · September 21, 2017 10:54 pm

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos travels on a private plane to tour schools and attend events across the country. But unlike other top Trump administration officials, DeVos covers the cost of the travel herself, according to a report. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Betsy DeVos’ private plane trips come at ‘no expense to taxpayers’

Melissa Quinn · September 21, 2017 6:07 pm

Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., center, sits in the audience before President Trump speaks at a roundtable on infrastructure at the Department of Transportation, on June 9 in Washington. Shuster and outside advocates say the White House and Trump's Department of Transportation remain engaged in pursuing air traffic control privatization. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Energy and Environment

Air traffic control privatization may be stuck in a holding pattern

Josh Siegel · September 11, 2017 4:01 am

Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., shot back against the American Conservative Union Foundation after the group came out against the lawmaker's plan to privatize air traffic control. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Bill Shuster pushes back against conservative group’s opposition to air traffic control privatization bill

Sean Higgins · September 8, 2017 7:21 pm

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster, R-Pa., is the lead author of the 21st Century AIRR Act. The legislation would take air traffic control out of the Federal Aviation Administration and instead create an independent nonprofit to run it.

Conservative group opposes air traffic control privatization bill

Sean Higgins · September 7, 2017 10:36 pm

The plane landed in San Juan and moved the departure time up by 25 minutes. The plane took off after only 52 minutes on the ground. (@flightradar24/Twitter)

Delta plane flies into Irma, lands, and then returns to mainland

Diana Stancy Correll · September 6, 2017 10:57 pm

Energy and Environment

Airlines take heat for high-dollar flights ahead of Irma

Sean Langille · September 6, 2017 10:13 pm

It is clear that an air traffic control system designed in the 1940s is not equipped to handle the demands of 21st-century air travel. (iStock by Getty Images)

Wealthy special interests are blocking flight delay fixes

alan-clendenin · September 4, 2017 4:01 am

"If we don't get these additional sanctions at the UN, as I mentioned over the weekend, I have an executive order prepared, that's ready to go to the president that will authorize to stop doing trade and put sanctions on anybody that does trade with North Korea," Mnuchin said Wednesday to reporters. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Treasury Inspector General opens probe into Steve Mnuchin’s travel on day of solar eclipse

Anna Giaritelli · September 1, 2017 2:30 am