Tag: Air Travel

VIDEO: Charter planes make their way into Virginia Senate race

Steve Doty · August 5, 2014 4:06 pm

FILE - In this July 17, 2013 file photo, a United Airlines jet approaching Los Angeles International Airport passes in front of a Waxing Gibbous moon. Airfare is up 10.7 percent in the past five years _ after adjusting for inflation _ according to an Associated Press analysis of data from the Airlines Reporting Corp., which processes ticket transactions for airlines and more than 9,400 travel agencies, including websites such as Expedia and Orbitz. ( AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

US airfares on the rise, outpacing inflation

Scott Mayerowitz · August 4, 2014 6:50 pm

Australian and Dutch experts examine a piece of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane, near the village of Hrabove, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine Friday, Aug.1, 2014. The investigators from the Netherlands and Australia plus officials with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe traveled from the rebel-held city of Donetsk in 15 cars and a bus to the crash site outside the village of Hrabove. Then they started setting up a base to work from at a chicken farm. The investigative team's top priority is to recover human remains that have been rotting in midsummer heat of 90 degrees (32 degrees Celsius) since the plane went down on July 17. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Ukraine: Body parts retrieved at jet crash site

MSTYSLAV CHERNOVPETER LEONARD · August 1, 2014 7:28 pm

Airport to use QR codes to help people find cars

Airport to use QR codes to help people find cars

Washington Examiner · August 1, 2014 8:02 am

Black smoke billows over the skyline as a fire at the oil depot for the airport rages out of control after being struck in the crossfire of warring militias battling for control of the airfield, in Tripoli, Libya Monday, July 28, 2014. The latest violence to plague the country has so far killed scores of people and wounded hundreds as foreigners flee the chaos. Libya's interim government said in a statement that the fire could trigger a "humanitarian and environmental disaster" in Tripoli, appealing for "international help" to extinguish the inferno. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ben Khalifa)

Thousands flee to Tunisia to escape Libya fighting

bouazza-ben, bouazzamaggie-michael · July 30, 2014 8:55 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 28, 2005 file photo, an Iraqi Airways plane sits on the tarmac at Baghdad International Airport. European and Dubai-based airlines have begun rerouting flights over Iraqi airspace as a security precaution, though Iraq says its skies are safe. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

Dubai, European airlines divert flights over Iraq

VIVIAN SALAMASAMEER N. YACOUB · July 30, 2014 5:40 pm

In this June 4, 2014 photo, a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 comes in for a landing at Love Field in Dallas. The Federal Aviation Administration on Monday, July 28, 2014 is proposing a $12 million civil fine against Southwest Airlines for failing to comply in three separate cases with safety regulations related to repairs on Boeing 737 jetliners. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

FAA proposes to fine Southwest Airlines $12M

Joan Lowy · July 28, 2014 7:33 pm

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House votes to let airlines advertise fares without taxes included

Susan Ferrechio · July 28, 2014 7:26 pm

NY lawmakers push for airline safety devices

NY lawmakers push for airline safety devices

Washington Examiner · July 27, 2014 6:36 pm

This photo provided on Friday, July 25, 2014, by the Burkina Faso Military shows a part of the plane at the crash site, in Mali. French soldiers secured a black box from the Air Algerie wreckage site in a desolate region of restive northern Mali on Friday, the French president said. Terrorism hasn't been ruled out as a cause, although officials say the most likely reason for the catastrophe that killed all onboard is bad weather. At least 116 people were killed in Thursday's disaster, nearly half of whom were French. (AP Photo/Burkina Faso Military)

Air Algerie jet’s black boxes to be sent to France

Baba Ahmed · July 27, 2014 4:54 pm

A man reads a local newspaperson a street with the headline Ebola Virus kills Liberian in Lagos, in Lagos Nigeria, Saturday, July 26, 2014. An Ebola outbreak that has left more than 600 people dead across West Africa has spread to the continent's most populous nation after a Liberian man with a high fever vomited aboard an airplane to Nigeria and then died there, officials said Friday. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) The 40-year-old man had recently lost his sister to Ebola in Liberia, health officials there said. It was not immediately clear how he managed to board a flight, but he was moved into an isolation ward upon arrival in Nigeria on Tuesday and died on Friday. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigeria death shows Ebola can spread by air travel

Heather Murdock · July 27, 2014 12:51 am

This photo provided Friday July 25, 2014 by the French army shows a helicopter at the site of the plane crash in Mali. French soldiers secured a black box from the Air Algerie wreckage site in a desolate region of restive northern Mali on Friday, the French president said. Terrorism hasn't been ruled out as a cause, although officials say the most likely reason for the catastrophe that killed all onboard is bad weather. At least 116 people were killed in Thursday's disaster, nearly half of whom were French. (AP Photo/ECPAD)

Teams converge on remote site to probe plane crash

ELAINE GANLEYSYLVIE CORBET · July 25, 2014 8:23 pm