Issues An Official Statement on American Airlines Restructuring
In a propared statement released Friday, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin said that the best thing for her state would be for American Airlines to emerge from bankruptcy looking much like it did before it fell on hard times.
New Scanners Will Detect Fraudulent Documents More Efficiently
The TSA late last week said it began testing new technologies designed to enhance the agency's ability to identify altered or fraudulent passenger identification documents and boarding passes at Washington Dulles International Airport (KIAD). The technology will also be tested at Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport (KIAH) and Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (KSJU) in the coming weeks.
Based on customer feedback, Frontier Airlines said Monday that it will shift its Houston operations from William P. Hobby Airport (KHOU) back to George Bush Intercontinental Airport (KIAH) effective July 11, 2012. Frontier will be the only domestic low-cost carrier at Bush Intercontinental.
Says Focus Should Be On Uncovering Terror Plots, Not Things Like Passengers' Liquids
Former TSA administrator Kip Hawley says that the agency's focus on individual passengers at airport security checkpoints is misguided, and that far more emphasis should be placed on getting to terrorists long before they enter an airport security line.
Sits In The Middle Of The Flight Paths Of Four Existing Busy Airports
The head of Britain's air traffic service Nats says that the proposed Thames hub airport is in "the very worst spot" when it comes to moving airplanes around in London's busy airspace. Richard Deakin, Nats' CEO, said that Air Traffic Control was not taken into account when the $79 billion proposal was developed.
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