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Dominique just doesn’t understand why an airline would want to charge people based on their weight! According to Dom, airlines should be more worried about cleaning up the pretzels she finds crumbled in her seat or the flight attendants rude behaviors.

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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – Authorities say an Israeli citizen and a Hoboken man made false bomb threats during separate incidents at Newark Liberty International airport. The Star-Ledger of Newark reports the first incident occurred just before 10 a.m. Sunday. Authorities say 44-year-old Evan Hess of Tel Aviv became angry upon learning there were no available […]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Flyers reacted with shrugs but largely agreed with a new policy announced by the Transportation Security Administration that airline passengers will be able to carry small knives and previously forbidden sports equipment on planes. “It’s common sense,” said Pat O’Brien, who stood at Los Angeles International Airport after arriving from Durango, […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is warning that automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect March 1 will result in travel delays at major airports and require traffic-disrupting shutdowns of air traffic control towers at smaller facilities. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says the across the board reductions will require trimming $600 million this year […]

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DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines and US Airways have agreed to merge in an $11 billion deal that would create the world’s biggest airline. The combined carrier will be called American Airlines and be based in Fort Worth, but US Airways CEO Doug Parker will run it. The merger would reduce the number of major […]

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Those airport scanners with their all-too revealing body images will soon be going away. The Transportation Security Administration says the scanners that used a low-dose X-ray will be gone by June because the company that makes them can’t fix the privacy issues. The other airport body scanners, which produce a generic outline instead of a […]

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AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — A JetBlue Airways pilot who disrupted a cross-country flight by leaving the cockpit and yelling about religion and terrorists is free to go home rather than be committed to a mental health facility, a Texas judge ruled Friday. Clayton Osbon was charged with interference with a flight crew for the March […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Wanted: A few good recruits to serve coffee and help combat terrorism at 30,000 feet. American Airlines said Wednesday that it will post job openings for 1,500 flight attendants next month. It will start hiring in December and put the new staff in training beginning in January. That may seem like […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — In a marketing gimmick that piggybacks on next month's presidential election, JetBlue is offering a way for Americans to make good on threats to leave the country if "the other guy" wins. The New York airline said Wednesday that it will give away 2012 seats, or 1,006 round-trip flights, for customers […]

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DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines said that improperly installed clamps caused seats to pop loose on two planes during flights and an inspection turned up four others with the same problem. The airline said Tuesday that it inspected and fixed the seats on 36 of its Boeing 757 jets and planned to check 11 other […]

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Crying babies are one of the biggest annoyances for people traveling via airplanes and one airline has the solution for this problem. AirAsia, a cost- friendly airline from Southeast Asia is offering a "quiet zone" or no baby zone on their flights starting in February. The airline will reserve the first seven rows of their […]

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PHILADELPHIA (AP)- Police are investigating the accidental discharge of a gun inside a flight attendant's handbag at Philadelphia International Airport. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports ( http://bit.ly/RaPodE) that Transportation Security Administration officers noticed the gun when the flight attendant put her handbag on the X-ray machine as she went through a routine security check around 6:30 […]