Tag: Air Travel

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2013, file photo, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator John Pistole testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Pistole says hardened jihadists in Syria known as the Khorasan group represent "a clear and present danger" to passenger and cargo airline flights to the United States and Europe. Pistole says the purpose of U.S. military air strikes earlier this week that targeted the group was to disrupt an "imminent attack or attack entering the last phases of execution." (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

US official says Khorasan Group threat to aviation

Joan Lowy · September 26, 2014 10:42 pm

IN this Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014 photo, a Syrian refugee mother rests with her children at a crossing gate near Suruc, Turkey. Refugees have been streaming into Turkey from Syria to find safety. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

National Security

Turkey’s Erdogan calls for no-fly zone in Syria

Suzan Fraser · September 26, 2014 6:58 pm

Pilot avoids beach crowd, crash-lands in ocean

Washington Examiner · September 25, 2014 4:13 pm

In this photo taken on Sept. 21, 2014, passengers exit a Ryanair flight at Dublin Airport. Ryanair says it plans to carry an extra 1 million passengers this year and has raised its profits outlook on the back of wide-ranging service improvements that have boosted sales and filled more aircraft. The Dublin-based carrier told its annual general meeting Thursday that it plans to carry 87 million passengers in this fiscal year, better than its previous forecast of 86 million, and record net profits at or close to 650 million euros ($825 million), the top of its previously guided range. (AP Photo/Shawn Pogatchnik)

Ryanair shares rise as airline raises outlook

Shawn Pogatchnik · September 25, 2014 3:03 pm

Washington Secrets

Ebola warning: CDC tells airlines to ‘treat all body fluids as infectious’

Paul Bedard · September 21, 2014 3:15 pm

Investigators at loss to explain Air Algerie crash

Washington Examiner · September 20, 2014 6:19 pm

This still frame from video provided by KABC-TV shows a JetBlue airliner on the Long Beach Airport runway with emergency slides deployed in Long Beach, Calif.,Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. The JetBlue Airbus A320 airliner experienced engine problems and returned to the Long Beach, California, Airport on Thursday after a short flight that ended with passengers evacuating the aircraft on emergency slides. (AP Photo/KABC-TV)

Passenger says JetBlue plane filled with smoke

Washington Examiner · September 19, 2014 2:01 am

After record profits, airlines keep adding jobs

Washington Examiner · September 18, 2014 7:42 pm

Margaux Hengel, right, and Stephanie Leon of France react after their flight is canceled at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, in Roissy, near Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. Air France canceled at least half its flights around the world on Monday as pilots began a weeklong strike, highlighting the trouble Europe's flagship airlines face in keeping up with low-cost competitors. Both 24-year-old medical workers, already made a sacrifice before dawn on Wednesday. They hurriedly bought tickets on a 4-hour train to catch their flight to the Caribbean after their first-leg flight from Brest, in western France, to Paris was canceled. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Laments, long lines amid Air France pilots’ strike

Jamey Keaten · September 17, 2014 3:18 pm

Travelers look at departure boards at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy, near Paris, Monday, Sept. 15, 2014. At least half of Air France flights around the world were canceled Monday as pilots kicked off a weeklong strike, angry that the airline is shifting jobs and operations to a low-cost carrier to better keep up with competition. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Air France strike amid Europe’s low-cost shakeup

MILOS KRIVOKAPICANGELA CHARLTON · September 15, 2014 7:31 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2014 file picture airport employees prepare aircrafts of the airliner Lufthansa at the airport during an eight-hour warning strike of Lufthansa pilots in Munich, southern Germany. A union representing Lufthansa's pilots says they will walk off the job at Frankfurt airport for eight hours on Tuesday, preventing departures by Germany's biggest airline from its busiest airport. The Vereinigung Cockpit union said Monday Sept. 15, 2014 that pilots on international long-distance flights from Frankfurt will walk out from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (0700 to 1500 GMT). The two sides are locked in a dispute over the pilots' demand that Lufthansa keep paying a transition payment for those wanting to retire early. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader,File)

Union: Lufthansa pilots call off strike

Washington Examiner · September 15, 2014 7:25 pm

A Lufthansa aircraft passes a signpost at the airport in Munich during an eight-hour warning strike of Lufthansa pilots in Munich, southern Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Lufthansa cancels 140 flights in pilots’ strike

Washington Examiner · September 10, 2014 11:07 am