Tag: Air Travel

FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2014 file photo, a woman reads a notice on the door of a closed Delta Airlines office after the government devalued the local currency for flights abroad in Caracas, Venezuela. Delta spokeswoman Sarah Lora confirmed Monday, July 7, 2014 that the carrier is reducing service by 85 percent, replacing its daily roundtrip flight between Atlanta and Caracas with one roundtrip weekend flight as of Aug. 1. (AP Photo/Alejandro Cegarra, File)

Delta Air Lines cutting back flights to Venezuela

Hannah Dreier · July 7, 2014 8:35 pm

Some US-bound air travelers must turn on phones

Eileen Sullivan · July 7, 2014 6:49 pm

Potential Houston midair plane collision averted

Potential Houston midair plane collision averted

Washington Examiner · July 5, 2014 9:22 pm

France steps up security on US-bound flights

National Security

France steps up security on US-bound flights

Washington Examiner · July 4, 2014 7:48 am

FILE - In this June 24, 2014, file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Johnson is ordering increased security measures at some overseas airports offering direct flights to the United States. The Homeland Security Department would not immediately say July 2 whether the increased measures were in response to intelligence about a specific threat. But a U.S. counterterrorism official says American intelligence has seen indications that certain terrorist groups in Yemen and Syria are working on a bomb that could make it through airport security undetected. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

US seeks more security at some overseas airports

KEN DILANIANEILEEN SULLIVAN · July 3, 2014 8:07 am

FILE - In this June 24, 2014, file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Johnson is ordering increased security measures at some overseas airports offering direct flights to the United States. The Homeland Security Department would not immediately say July 2 whether the increased measures were in response to intelligence about a specific threat. But a U.S. counterterrorism official says American intelligence has seen indications that certain terrorist groups in Yemen and Syria are working on a bomb that could make it through airport security undetected. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

US seeks more security at some foreign airports

KEN DILANIANEILEEN SULLIVAN · July 3, 2014 1:49 am

United plane’s evacuation slide deploys mid-flight

Don Babwin · June 30, 2014 3:49 pm

CORRECTS LOCATION OF AIRPORT - FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2007, file photo, a twisted reflection of a passenger jet is reflected in the mirrored windows of an office building as it lands at Washington's Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Va. The government wants to dramatically reduce the height limits of buildings near hundreds of airports, but the proposal is drawing fire from real estate developers, local business leaders and members of Congress who say it will reduce property values. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

FAA, developers clash over tall buildings

Joan Lowy · June 27, 2014 1:31 am

A Delta Airlines Boeing 757 takes off Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Beltway Confidential

Delta Air Lines’ Export-Import Bank proposal: Stop giving subsidies to our foreign competitors

Timothy P. Carney · June 25, 2014 6:22 pm

Today's hearing on the Export-Import Bank is Rep. Jeb Hensarling's first big step to try to persuade Republicans to listen to the grass roots and oppose corporate welfare. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Beltway Confidential

Somehow, Export-Import Bank became an issue

Timothy P. Carney · June 25, 2014 2:12 pm

FILE- In this Wednesday, May 7, 2014, file photo, Alitalia planes wait on the tarmac prior to take off from the Linate airport, in Milan, Italy. Fast-growing Gulf carrier Etihad Airways says it and Alitalia have reached a deal in principle for the United Arab Emirates-based airline to buy a 49 percent stake in the struggling Italian airline. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Etihad agrees in principle to buy Alitalia stake

Adam Schreck · June 25, 2014 12:59 pm

FILE - This May 11, 2012 file photo, Portland Imam Mohamed Sheikh Abdirahman Kariye, who is one of 15 men who say their rights were violated because they are on the U.S. government's no-fly list, leaves the United Sates Court of Appeals following oral arguments on the ACLU No Fly List challenge, in Portland, Ore. A federal judge has ruled Tuesday, June 24, 2014, that the U.S. government violated the rights of 13 people on its no-fly list by depriving them of their constitutional right to travel, and gave them no adequate way to challenge their placement on the list. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Judge: No-fly list violates constitutional rights

Nigel Duara · June 25, 2014 12:27 am