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CDC: Woman with measles traveled through 3 airports

Airline Passengers Contacted Over Measles

CDC: Woman with measles traveled through 3 airports

State public health officials are contacting airline passengers after a woman with measles traveled through three airports earlier this week, a spokesman for the U.S.

Toronto, Montreal baggage handlers on strike

Toronto And Montreal Airports

Toronto, Montreal baggage handlers on strike

Approximately 400 baggage handlers employed by Handlex, a subsidiary of Air Transat, are on strike at Toronto and Montreal airports.

AirTran flight attendants announce 6-week picketing schedule in 6 cities

AirTran Airways

AirTran flight attendants announce 6-week picketing schedule in 6 cities

WASHINGTON - - AirTran Flight Attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA), today announced a "Six Cities in Six Weeks" picketing tour.

Aviation news: Tanzania Airports Authority fails to connect taxiway to hangar

Minister Shakes Head In Disbelief

Aviation news: Tanzania Airports Authority fails to connect taxiway to hangar

By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN

(eTN) - The US$5+ million maintenance hangar, built by Precision Air and due to be ready at the latest by March of this year, will most likely have to stand idle for some time longer, as the ...

US Transportation Security Administration

TSA to begin testing new imaging software at select airports

WASHINGTON - The U.S.

Egyptair cancels all flights during curfew hours

Egypt Airport Curfew

Egyptair cancels all flights during curfew hours

Egypt's flag carrier announced on Monday the cancellation of all its domestic and international flights during curfew hours.

TSA ends airport Screening Partnership Program

Union Applauds Ending of Airport Privatization Program

TSA ends airport Screening Partnership Program

WASHINGTON - The American Federation of Government Employees praised Transportation Security Administration Administrator John Pistole for putting a stop to the privatization of this country's ...

Delta Air Lines Sky Club

Airport news: Delta unveils 4 newly renovated Sky Clubs

ATLANTA - Delta Air Lines today introduces a renovated Sky Club in Minneapolis-St.

After decades of neglect Israeli civil aviation needs reform

Israel In Desperate Need Of Aviation Reform

After decades of neglect Israeli civil aviation needs reform

JERUSALEM — The U.S. government has ranked Israel's air safety among the world's worst, lumping it with countries like Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti and Zimbabwe.

Muslim group updates travel advisory for holiday weekend

Council on American-Islamic Relations On Holiday Travel

Muslim group updates travel advisory for holiday weekend

WASHINGTON - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today issued an updated travel advisory for those concerned about new airport security measures involving full-body scanners and more ...

Southwest Airlines partners with Windows 7

Holiday Photos on the Fly

Southwest Airlines partners with Windows 7

DALLAS - If you're traveling on Southwest Airlines this holiday season, you're sure to be put on the "Nice List!" Southwest and Microsoft Windows 7 have partnered to make your holiday travel ...

TSA Administrator John Pistole issues public service announcement

Transportation Security Administration

TSA Administrator John Pistole issues public service announcement

WASHINGTON - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator John S.

France requests airlines to reduce international flights on Tuesday

Protests Affect Flights To And From France

France requests airlines to reduce international flights on Tuesday

The French DGAC aviation authority is requesting airlines to reduce international flights by up to 50 percent on October 19.

Virgin Blue computer problems to cause more delays

Australian Carrier Suspends Online Services

Virgin Blue computer problems to cause more delays

While Virgin Blue races to fix its ongoing computer problems, more delays for airline's passengers expected this week.

Kakamega Airfield in Kenya set for upgrade

Expansion And Modernization

Kakamega Airfield in Kenya set for upgrade

By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN

(eTN) - Following the introduction of Fly 540’s scheduled flights to the western Kenyan municipality, the Kenya Airports Authority has issued tenders for the expansion and resealing of Kakamega ...

American Airlines expands mobile boarding passes to 8 more airports

mobile boarding passes

American Airlines expands mobile boarding passes to 8 more airports

FORT WORTH, Texas - American Airlines customers departing from New York's John F.

Airport news: US tarmac delays plunge from 268 to 3

US Airline Industry

Airport news: US tarmac delays plunge from 268 to 3

By Jeff Plungis

Airline flights stuck on tarmacs for more than three hours fell to three in June, the second month of a rule that fines carriers for such delays, from 268 a year ago, according to a U.S. ...

Spanish air traffic controllers vote to strike in August

air traffic controllers threaten strike

Spanish air traffic controllers vote to strike in August

By Murray Wardrop

Hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers face travel chaos after Spain’s air traffic controllers voted to strike in a row over pay and working hours.

Airport News: Can Brazilian airports handle the World Cup?

World Cup 2014

Airport News: Can Brazilian airports handle the World Cup?

SAO PAULO - Brazil's airline industry is increasingly concerned that the country will not have adequate airport capacity for the 2014 soccer World Cup because of slow expansion and growing demand ...

Naverus expanding Required Navigation Performance Network in China

Naverus expands in China

Naverus expanding Required Navigation Performance Network in China

Naverus, a part of GE Aviation Systems, announced it will begin Required Navigation Performance (RNP) work at a sixth Chinese airport, Lijiang, that will help improve Air China and Sichuan ...

France: Hundreds of flights canceled due to traffic controllers' strike

French Air Traffic Controllers Strike

France: Hundreds of flights canceled due to traffic controllers' strike

By JEAN-MARIE GODARD

PARIS – Hundreds of flights in France were canceled and smaller airports shut down Wednesday because of a strike by air traffic controllers worried about a plan to unify control of European air ...

World's most hated airports

airports that are statistically the worst

World's most hated airports

By Doug Lansky

Airports might be our gateways to travel, adventure and a little extra sunshine, but some of them, especially the bigger hubs, have been getting bogged down by the increased traffic and convoluted ...

400 geese killed to clear New York City airways

New York City

400 geese killed to clear New York City airways

By Della Hasselle

MANHATTAN — Wildlife biologists rounded up and killed nearly 400 Canada Geese in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, in what officials called a safety precaution for New York's airways, the New York Times ...

Alaska Air, Boeing team up to develop and use biofuel in Pacific Northwest

Alaska Airlines

Alaska Air, Boeing team up to develop and use biofuel in Pacific Northwest

Alaska Airlines, Boeing and airports in the Pacific Northwest have teamed up in an effort to move towards the development and use of biofuel aviation fuels in the region.

25% of airline cargo not screened by TSA

Airline Cargo Screening

25% of airline cargo not screened by TSA

Nine years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Transportation Security Administration has tightened passenger screening.

ACI Europe celebrated its 20th anniversary in Milan

The Future Of Airports

ACI Europe celebrated its 20th anniversary in Milan

By Mario Masciullo, eTN

MILAN, Italy (eTN) - With the theme, “A 20-year vision of the airports of 2030,” the three-day ACI Airport Conference, held for the first time in Milan, faced important subjects, including ...

Buckle up when you fly into these airports

World's Scariest Runways

Buckle up when you fly into these airports

It’s 10:45 a.m. on a cloudy day, and the crew of Druk Air flight KB205 is preparing to land at their home airport of Paro, Bhutan.

Expert: I can overcome body scanners with enough explosives to bring down Boeing 747

Body Scanners Are No Silver Bullet - Experts

Expert: I can overcome body scanners with enough explosives to bring down Boeing 747

By Ken Dilanian

As the government begins deploying whole-body imaging machines to replace metal detectors at airports nationwide, some security experts worry that the new technology could make it easier, not ...

20th Annual ACI Europe Annual Assembly to take place in Italy

Vision Of 2030 Airports

20th Annual ACI Europe Annual Assembly to take place in Italy

By Mario Masciullo, eTN

(eTN) MILAN - In its 20 years, the ACI Europe Annual Assembly & Congress is firmly established as the annual meeting place for air transport chief executives and industry leaders.

Tourists allowed to go to the airport during Bangkok curfew

Thailand Airports

Tourists allowed to go to the airport during Bangkok curfew

The Thai government's Centre for the Resolution of Emergency Situation (CRES) will continue imposing the curfew in Bangkok and 23 provinces for three more days.

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