Airlines 4 America (A4A) called on Congress on Monday to reject the Trump Administration’s proposal to increase federal aviation taxes and fees by $2.9 billion per year in its fiscal year 2019 budge...
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Airlines posted the lowest passenger bumping rate on record in 2017, with the year’s bumping rate of 0.34 per 10,000 passengers nearly halving the previous low of 0.62 recorded in 2016, according to...
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The global space industry is valued at $345 billion, according to a recent Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) report. The space industry includes government space agencies, global navigation satell...
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced Monday that it is investigating a video that shows a drone flying over a commercial airliner that was in its final approach to Las Vegas McCarran In...
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With members of Congress barely beating an end-of-day Feb. 8 deadline to fund the government with a long-term spending deal or face a partial shutdown, and with President Donald Trump ambivalent about...
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With 46.9 million passengers last year, the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) broke its own annual records for the seventh consecutive year. These numbers were aided by the addition of...
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Increased demand for air services has compelled UPS to order 14 Boeing 747-8 cargo jets and four Boeing 767 aircraft, which are expected to be delivered by the end of 2022, the company announced on Th...
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A new study from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) focused on the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), determining that the administration is both improving its sharing of infor...
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Approximately 700 JetBlue pilots picketed the company’s headquarters in Long Island City, New York, on Thursday in an effort to advance contract negotiations that have spanned more than three years....
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U.S. Reps John Katko (R-NY), Claudia Tenney (R-NY), and Elise Stefanik (R-NY) recently wrote to President Donald Trump, the Department of Transportation, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA),...
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North Dakota’s eight commercial service airports saw 1.03 million passenger boardings in 2017, a 1.8% drop from 2016, as well as 1.03 million passenger deplanements for the year. In total, more t...
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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam recently named Mark Flynn director of the Virginia Department of Aviation. Flynn was sworn into the position after the governor’s inauguration Jan. 13. He replaces Ra...
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) should pursue regulatory reforms to ensure that pipelines transport jet fuel to airports efficient and keep pace with growing demand, a white paper rele...
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The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently called for recording devices to be used in experimental test flights, in response to the July 6, 2016, in-flight accident of an experiment...
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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey recently established 10 interim measures at JFK Airport for the facility’s response to winter weather. The measures address such issues as staffing, ...
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The European Regions Airline Association (ERA) recently announced its support of and agreement with the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) position on governments considering new rules...
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Legislative proposals to increase staffing levels of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at airports was praised by the Airports Council International - North America (ACI-NA) on Wednesday as...
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Despite contracts to develop and produce vehicles for astronaut transportation, Boeing and SpaceX are falling behind, and the Government Accountability Organization (GAO) warns the result could be jeo...
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Members of a Congressional subcommittee urged Transportation Security Administration Administrator David P. Pekoske to speed up the deployment of 3D scanning technology at U.S. airports to minimize th...
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Revelations that top Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials interfered with disciplinary policies geared to prevent favoritism drew commendation from bipartisan leaders of the House Ov...
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