The Transportation Security Administration inadvertently revealed closely guarded secrets related to airport passenger screening practices when it posted online this spring a document as part of a contract solicitation, the agency confirmed Tuesday.
FRANKFURT - The Frankfurt airport, Europe's third biggest hub after London Heathrow and Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle, wants to raise its rates by 12.5 percent by October 2011, it said on Tuesday. The measure would cover landing fees, charges for noise,
KIGALI, Rwanda - The head of Rwanda's national airline says one person has died after a passenger plane crashed into the airport's VIP lounge. Rwandair executive Jack Ekl said Friday the pilot had reported technical difficulties after taking off fro
HARARE - U.N. human rights expert Manfred Nowak was detained at Harare airport on Wednesday by Zimbabwean security agents, even though he said he had been invited by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. The Austrian academic arrived in Zimbabwe from J
WASHINGTON Federal investigators are scrambling to determine what happened aboard a Northwest Airlines jetliner whose crew flew 150 miles past its rivoltion while air traffic controllers, other pilots and even a flight attendant back in the cabin t
WASHINGTON Two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their rivoltion by 150 miles before turning back should have had numerous warnings as they approached and passed Minneapolis: cockpit displays, controllers trying repeatedly to reach, the city l
LONDON - Spanish-owned airports operator BAA on Wednesday announced the sale of Britain's second busiest hub Gatwick to a US investment fund for 1.51 billion pounds following an antitrust ruling. BAA said it had agreed to sell Gatwick to Global Inf
LONDON - British airport operator BAA Ltd. on Wednesday said it is selling London Gatwick airport to Global Infrastructure Partners for 1.51 billion pounds . BAA has been ordered by Britain's Competition Commission to also dispose of London Stansted
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