Several major American airports have refused to play a clip of U.S. Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem blasting Democrats for the government shutdown which has resulted in some federal employees working without pay for the time being.
BRUSSELS (AP) – A cyberattack targeting check-in and boarding systems disrupted air traffic and caused delays at several of Europe’s major airports on Saturday, officials said, though the initial impact appeared to be limited. The disruptions to electronic systems initially
The Trump Administration’s FAA has announced plans to overhaul outdated air traffic control (ATC) systems, which currently rely on floppy disks and Windows 95 operating systems to keep America’s airports running safely and efficiently. Recent high profile failures make it clear that relying on old systems is no longer an option.
France’s civil aviation authority asked airlines to reduce flights by 40% at Paris-Orly airport on Sunday evening after air traffic control systems suffered a breakdown.
Denver International Airport lost communication with pilots accessing its air traffic control system for almost 90 seconds on Monday. Equipment failures were blamed for a fault that could have led to catastrophic outcomes.
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud wrote a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump last week offering the United States exclusive control of some of the nation’s airbases and ports, which would greatly improve America’s military presence in the region.
London Heathrow Airport said it was “fully operational” on Saturday after a closure over an electrical substation fire.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends First,” Virginia Lt. Gov. and gubernatorial candidate Winsome Sears (R) said that there is an issue with “perpetual understaffing” at airports. Sears stated, “Well, certainly something has to be
Two American women were kicked off a flight from London’s Heathrow airport this week after a brawl reportedly broke out over one of the passengers wearing a Make America Great Again hat.
The FAA is reportedly struggling to modernize its aging air traffic control (ATC) systems, putting the safety and efficiency of the national airspace at risk, according to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The U.S. cybersecurity company CrowdStrike issued a faulty software update to computers with Microsoft Windows on Friday, grounding flights.
A caravan of pro-Palestinian demonstrators driving around John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport in New York City on New Year’s Day and releasing balloons, caused 60 flights to be delayed and created chaos on one of the busiest travel days of the year.
House Republicans are urging President Joe Biden’s Department of Transportation (DOT), Secretary Pete Buttigieg, to reject reported plans that would see United States airports transformed into migrant camps for tens of thousands of illegal aliens.
A major winter storm is forecast to impact millions of Americans beginning on Tuesday.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) intercepted more than 6,500 guns in 2022 — a record number of gun interceptions at United States airports.
Spain and France were forced to shut down flights at several airports as an out of control 24 tonne Chinese rocket hurtled back towards Earth.
In a bid to solve delays in the country’s airports, Germany is to do what it does best: bring in more migrants, mostly from Turkey.
Sweden’s largest airport, Arlanda, has contracted a Chinese company to provide security screening that allegedly has close links to the Chinese military and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Climate activists attempted to block air traffic at eight different airports across Sweden, with several glueing themselves to a runway.
The U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday announced a “first come, first serve basis” for stranded Americans at the airport.
A video of passengers duct taping a man to his seat on a plane after he allegedly groped female flight attendants is said to have led Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials to ask U.S. airports to monitor travelers for alcohol consumption.
Americans are upping their travels as the world passes the one year mark of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screening over one million travelers per day in the last eight days alone.
One of the world’s busiest airports in Shanghai canceled over 500 flights on Tuesday to contain a coronavirus outbreak.
The Orlando International Airport (MCO) on Wednesday clarified that there is no coronavirus outbreak at the facility among employees — a clarification that came after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) indicated that 260 of 500 workers at an unspecified Florida airport tested positive for the virus.
France has announced that it will be imposing “reciprocal” quarantine measures on British arrivals after the UK said that international travellers will be required to self-quarantine for two weeks upon entering the country in order to prevent a second wave of the Chinese coronavirus.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce that the United Kingdom will only begin imposing mandatory quarantine of airport arrivals in June, three months after the nation was placed under effective house arrest due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
The British government will finally begin implementing mandatory 14-day quarantines for people entering the country, months after countries around the world enacted similar measures to prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.
The British government is still allowing flights to arrive at the nation’s airports from the countries where coronavirus infection is most widespread.
President Trump’s coronavirus travel bans have been effective in refusing air travel entry to the United States for Chinese nationals, Iranian nationals, and recent visitors to either of those countries.
The Department of Homeland Security has blocked the state of New York from participating in a series of federal programs that fast-track travel for New Yorkers reentering the United States from international airports.
The Cuban exile who remains the rightful owner of the José Martí International Airport in Havana filed a federal lawsuit against American Airlines on Wednesday, accusing them of using property stolen by the country’s communist regime.
The FAA is investigating religious discrimination claims at two U.S. airports that banned Chick-fil-A franchises because of the CEO’s faith.
JetBlue, Delta, United, American, Southwest, and Alaska Airlines all reportedly experienced “systemwide outages” across multiple U.S. airports, Monday, which led to the grounding of flights. The FAA has said a flight planning weight and balance program used by the airlines caused the outages.
The UK’s security minister has warned that a resurgent al Qaeda is seeking to carrying out fresh terror attacks on airplanes, using drone technology and jihadist sleeper agents working at airports.
With funding for the wall stalled, with healthcare through the House, with the fundamentals of a massive Trump tax cut and tax reform effort laid out, many in the White House are now turning their attention to another critical Trump campaign promise: infrastructure investment.
Obama and the Democrats are not only using the same old Alinskyite tactics, but amplifying them through the media, who will never forgive President Donald Trump for winning the election.
President Donald Trump could bring high-speed rail lines to America, taking up the mantle that Barack Obama started but failed to complete.
As the tumult continues over President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting travel from terror-prone nations — what the left is calling, incorrectly, the “Muslim ban” — few seem to have noticed that Trump has made several strategic gains.
The Chicago city council is set to pass a new requirement that the city’s two major airports, O’Hare and Midway, must provide free breastfeeding rooms for the public.
A union seeking to represent thousands of employees at New York’s two major airports says workers will go on strike Wednesday unless they are allowed to organize.
