Tag: Air Travel

In a striking announcement Wednesday, a Polish government committee suggested that traces of explosives have been found on the wreckage of a Polish plane that crashed in 2010 which carried the country's government and armed forces elite. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Beltway Confidential

Poland: New evidence suggests Russia may have killed the country’s former president

Tom Rogan · August 9, 2017 6:57 pm

As a UAE based airline, Etihad is despised by ISIS. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Beltway Confidential

In July, ISIS nearly succeeded in bringing down a passenger plane

Tom Rogan · August 4, 2017 3:46 pm

Derek Hunter, a contributing editor at the Daily Caller, criticized Lena Dunham's decision not to confront the attendants.

Lena Dunham faces social media heat for tweets alleging transphobic talk about American Airlines employees

Jack O'brien · August 4, 2017 3:34 am

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.

Air traffic control privatization effort hits turbulence but moving forward

Sean Higgins · August 1, 2017 9:35 pm

No one was injured and Air France said the jet was never in danger. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

Passenger jet flew over area where North Korea missile landed 10 minutes before impact: Report

Melissa Quinn · August 1, 2017 9:08 pm

Boeing's path to future success should not be paved with shaky and unfair trade accusations designed to undermine innovative companies. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Boeing is abusing trade laws to harm its competition

Darryl Jenkins · July 30, 2017 4:01 am

TSA's new security measure follows an aviation security plan announced by Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly last month, which applied to international flights coming into the United States. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

TSA to require separate X-ray screening of electronics larger than a cellphone

Melissa Quinn · July 26, 2017 5:43 pm

The four-engine aircraft of Emirates airline is illuminated by last rays of the sun as it flies over Frankfurt, Germany on March 10. As Persian Gulf airlines Etihad Airways, Emirates, and Qatar Airways have expanded operations into the U.S. in recent years, some of the major American carriers took notice. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Airlines press Trump to act against Gulf countries accused of violating Open Skies

Josh Siegel · July 24, 2017 4:02 am

The TSA cited 178 documents supporting the policy, but GAO said only three were "valid evidence." (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Watchdog: Little evidence to support TSA’s ‘behavioral indicators’ screening process

Todd Shepherd · July 20, 2017 7:45 pm

"This blatant disregard for our Open Skies agreements has allowed these airlines to undercut U.S. carriers, financially damaging the U.S. airline industry, jeopardizing service to small-and medium-sized communities and threatening American jobs," wrote Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

Ted Cruz encourages Trump Cabinet trio to take action against Gulf countries accused of unfairly subsidizing airlines

Josh Siegel · July 19, 2017 3:14 am

In March, the U.S. banned electronics from in-cabin use from 10 airports from Middle Eastern and African nations flying to the United States out of fear that terrorists could hide explosives in them. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

National Security

US lifts laptop ban on flights to the US from Saudi Arabia

Leah DePiero · July 17, 2017 6:48 pm

In June, Norwegian Air began flying from the United States to Europe. Its tickets are about half the cost of U.S. airlines flying the same routes. (Wikipedia Commons)

Beltway Confidential

How foreign airlines are shaking up the trans-Atlantic market for the better

Tom Rogan · July 17, 2017 4:13 pm