Passenger Punches Teen for Refusing to Turn Off Phone A 68-year-old man was arrested in Boise after he punched a teenage boy aboard a Southwest Airlines flight Tuesday night. According to police, the altercation took place during the landing of a flight...
How to Enjoy a New Year’s Abroad As we say goodbye to 2010 and hello to 2011, those with the heart to travel or Christmas gifts to do so might want to consider spending their New Year's celebration abroad. What better way to bring in a...
Kahn, Father of Airline Deregulation Dies at 93 Alfred E. Kahn, the man credited with ending government control of the airline industry in the 1970s, passed away yesterday at age 93. As chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board under President...
LAN Expects Merger with Brazil’s TAM in Mid-2011 Chile’s LAN Airlines expects a planned merger with Brazil’s TAM Airlines to be approved in mid-2011, according to a top executive. The merger, which was originally announced in August, needs...
Five Things We Learned From Travel in 2010 If there's anything we learned about 2010 from travel, it's that it was a roller coaster year. From publicity stunts, to flight attendants jumping out of airplanes, to snow blizzards, to...
Snowstorm Brings a Silent Night to LaGuardia Airport (video) What would normally be a time of travelers coming in from the holidays has been eerily quiet due to the snowstorm that struck the East Coast. There are no planes departing and no planes arriving at LaGuardia...
Boeing Will Increase 777 Production in 2013 Boeing has announced a plan to once again increase the production rate of its popular 777 aircraft. The company said this week that it plans to increase production to 8.3 planes per month starting in...
Japanese Airports to Introduce Bamboo Wheelchairs Japan Airlines recently unveiled a plan to install bamboo wheelchairs at two airports in early 2011. The chairs are part of a pilot program aimed at reducing the length of screening processes at...
New York and London Among 2011 Hot Travel Destinations Travel in the New Year will have an array of influences with anniversaries, events, celebrities and the economy, from royal weddings in London to the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks in...
Flights Resume at Dublin Airport After flights were suspended due to heavy snowfalls, flights have begun taking off again at Dublin Airport. Roughly 100 flights were grounded and cancelled after the airport was shut down for three...
Full Body Scanner Arrives at Palm Springs Airport Palms Springs International Airport is the latest airport to receive the controversial full-body scanner. The Transportation Security Administration is attempting to install roughly 500 of the much talked...
Beatles’ Abbey Road Designated a British Heritage Site The well known English crosswalk outside Abbey Road Studios was given Grade II status by the British government this week. Located in the north St John's Wood section of London, the crosswalk is...
Heathrow Passengers Hopeful as Terminals Open Passengers who camped out at London Heathrow saw a ray of hope today with news that the airport planned to operate two-thirds of its departures. No new snow has fallen since Saturday, with airport...
Qatar Airways Planning 2012 IPO An initial public offering could come from Qatar Airways as soon as 2012, according to the airline’s chief executive. In a recent interview with Qatar’s Gulf Times, Akbar al-Baker stated that...