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A Saudi Arabian man was arrested at Detroit Metro Airport after authorities said he made a false statement about why he brought a pressure cooker with him on a flight from Amsterdam, a spokeswoman for the US attorney in Detroit said on Monday. Hussain al-Kwawahir, 33, arrived in Detroit on Saturday and was questioned [...]
State-run Kuwait Airways will spend 850 million dinars (USD$2.98 billion) on 25 new Airbus jets and aims to lease a further 13 to upgrade its fleet, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Sunday. Daily Al-Watan cited sources close to the decision-makers as saying the airline would start receiving the new aircraft from Airbus from 2019. [...]
Sleep and airports mix like oil and water but one chair-bed hybrid is looking to change that. Travellers flying through Abu Dhabi International Airport can now use one of 10 sleeping pods to catch up on shuteye when a hotel bed or a good, old-fashioned chair just won’t cut it. The Finnish-designed sleep capsules made [...]
Britain should expand London’s Heathrow airport by building a third or even fourth runway, MPs said on Friday, weighing into an argument pitting business leaders against environmentalists. Parliament’s Transport Committee rejected a plan championed by London Mayor Boris Johnson to build a new airport in the River Thames estuary to the east of the [...]
Federal Aviation Administration on Friday cancelled budget-driven plans to close 149 air traffic control towers at smaller US airports, two weeks after Congress passed legislation to end air traffic controller furloughs that had delayed flights. US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said federal officials determined the legislation gave the FAA enough flexibility to keep funding [...]
Turkish Airlines is quashing a ban on female flight attendants wearing red lipstick and nail polish, its chief executive said on Thursday, after an outcry by secular Turks worried the country is becoming too Islamic. The national carrier had said in a statement this month the use of red and dark pink lipstick and [...]
Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) said on Thursday it would return its Boeing 787 Dreamliners back to service from June 1 after the planes were grounded worldwide for more than four months. ANA, which is Boeing’s biggest 787 customer with 17 jets, also said it will introduce three international routes using the aircraft this [...]
Canada’s aviation regulator will allow WestJet Airlines an exemption from current rules so that it can boost the number of passengers each of its flight attendants may serve to 50 from 40. Transport Canada said on Monday it will now begin work on a regulatory change to allow all Canadian airlines to increase the [...]
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