FAA to staff 72 airport control towers at night
BY: Associated Press Seventy-two airport towers and other air traffic control facilities that were slated to close at night due to budget cuts will get to stay open, the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday. |
Documents show big spending by MWAA executives
BY: Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. — Documents show some top executives at the board that manages the Washington region’s airports have spent tens of thousands of dollars on travel, meals and similar expenses. The expense reports obtained by The Washington Post show that at least for top officials at the Metropolitan Washignton Airports Authority each filed more than [...] |
Security checkpoint closing at BWI
BY: Associated Press LINTHICUM — The lower-level security checkpoint at Baltimore-Washington International Airport is closing. Airport officials say the checkpoint will shut down effective Friday morning. The primary checkpoints for concourses A and B are on the airport’s upper level and will remain open. The closure of the lower checkpoint is part of a major renovation to the [...] |
Md. airports make plea to keep control towers
BY: Associated Press McLEAN, Va. — Just one year ago, Frederick Municipal Airport debuted a new, $5 million air traffic control tower paid for by the federal stimulus legislation. Now, automatic budget cuts have the new tower and four others at small to mid-size airports in Maryland at risk for closure. Maryland airports are submitting pleas this week [...] |
New TSA policy on knives, bats sparks backlash
BY: Associated Press WASHINGTON — Flight attendants, pilots, federal air marshals and even insurance companies are part of a growing backlash to the Transportation Security Administration’s new policy allowing passengers to carry small knives and sports equipment like souvenir baseball bats and golf clubs onto planes. The Flight Attendants Union Coalition, which representing nearly 90,000 flight attendants, said [...] |
Flight cancellations expected as storm barrels toward Mid-Atlantic
BY: Associated Press A late-winter storm barreled through the Midwest, snarling air travel in and out of Chicago, and it will soon take aim at busy airports around Washington, D.C. By late morning Tuesday, more than 1,200 flights had been canceled, almost all at Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway airports. The airlines were already looking one day ahead and [...] |
Gov’t: Budget cuts already causing airport delays
BY: Associated Press WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says U.S. airports, including Los Angeles International and O’Hare International in Chicago, are already experiencing delays as a result of automatic federal spending cuts. Both of those big-city airports routinely suffer delays. Napolitano said Monday that delays will become worse. The Transportation Security Administration and Customs and Border [...] |
Aviation technology advances, FAA tries to keep up
BY: Associated Press DALLAS — After two separate and serious battery problems aboard Boeing 787s, it wasn’t U.S. authorities who acted first to ground the plane. It was Japanese airlines. The unfolding saga of Boeing’s highest-profile plane has raised new questions about federal oversight of aircraft makers and airlines. Some aviation experts question the ability of the Federal [...] |
With new storm looming, airlines take no chances
BY: Associated Press NEW YORK — Major airlines are scrapping flights in and out of the New York area ahead of the second significant storm in little more than a week. United and American plan to suspend operations in the region this afternoon. Other airlines are encouraging passengers to reschedule — without a fee. Airlines are quick to [...] |
Federal audit reveals more problems at D.C. airports
BY: Associated Press McLEAN, Va. — A federal audit of the authority that runs metropolitan Washington’s two major airports has revealed more problems, including overreliance on no-bid contracts and executives accepting expensive gifts from contractors. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority has faced withering criticism for its oversight of a planned $5.6 billion extension of the region’s Metrorail system [...] |
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