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NBC10’s Brian Sheehan reports from a quieted Philadelphia International Airport later on Wednesday morning after flights around the country were grounded due to an FAA computer glitch earlier in the day.

NBC10’s Brenna Weick reports from Philadelphia International Airport Wednesday morning as air travelers around the country deal with potential delays caused by a nationwide FAA computer issue.

The Transportation Security Administration is raising the fine for people caught with a firearm in their carry-on bag.

The looming REAL ID deadline already delayed twice is getting another major pushback, giving Americans an additional 24 months to become compliant, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday. A new date for the requirement for air travelers to have a REAL ID-compliant form of identification will be set for May 7, 2025, officials said. Originally slated for enforcement back…

The Transportation Security Administration said a record number of guns have been caught at Philadelphia International Airport this year after TSA agents stopped a traveler with a handgun on Tuesday.

passenger disturbance on a Southwest Airlines flight prompted its diversion to Little Rock, Arkansas, on Saturday on one of the year’s busiest travel weekends.

It’s not just inflation. There has been no letup in travel demand as the pandemic ebbs.

It’s been a turbulent recovery for Philadelphia International and other U.S. airports coming out of the Covid-19 lockdowns, with scheduled national flight traffic still trailing pre-pandemic levels heading into the busy holiday travel season, reports the Philadelphia Business Journal. A Business Journals analysis of airport data from Cirium Inc. identified 1.84 million domestic flights scheduled in the fourth quarter,...

The federal government has turned down a request by a regional airline to hire pilots with half the flying experience generally required. The Federal Aviation Administration says it’s in the public interest to uphold the current standards. Republic Airways petitioned to hire first officers — or co-pilots — with 750 hours of flying time if they completed Republic’s training program....

For the first time since COVID-19 brought air travel to a standstill, the number of people streaming through U.S. airport-security checkpoints over a holiday weekend exceeded pre-pandemic levels. The summer travel season ended on a busy note as more than 8.7 million people passed through security in the last four days, topping the Labor Day weekend of 2019. The Transportation...

A video of a Southwest Airlines pilot saying he will “pull back” the airplane and return to the gate if passengers do not stop sending nude photos over AirDrop has gone viral.

Amid months of mass flight cancellations and delays, the Department of Transportation has launched a customer service dashboard to help vacationers ahead of the travel-heavy Labor Day weekend.

New federal data show the number passenger complaints to U.S. carriers more than doubled in the first half of 2022, between January and June, compared with the first half of 2021 — with nearly six-times more complaints about flight problems like cancellations, delays or missed connections. The new crush of complaints came as airlines dramatically increased capacity to meet surging…

An airline official said two Air France pilots were suspended after physically fighting in the cockpit on a Geneva-Paris flight in June.

After a punishing summer for air travelers who have seen delayed and canceled flights, the Department of Transportation is warning airlines that they need to come up with their own improvements for customer service or the agency will proceed with a plan to order a rule change. 

A Costa Rica-bound United flight out of Newark Liberty International Airport had to divert to Washington’s Dulles hub early Wednesday because of a “disruptive passenger,” the airline says. United flight 1080 was over North Carolina when it turned back toward Dulles. Metropolitan police and fire officials met the plane on the runway and it taxied to the gate, where more…

American Airlines on Tuesday said that it has ordered 20 supersonic planes, aircrafts that can carry passengers at twice the speed of today’s fastest commercial aircraft. American has become the third major airline to announce a supersonic order from Boom Aviation in Denver, following in the footsteps of Japan Airlines in 2017 and United Airlines in 2021. “We want to do supersonic as quickly...

Air travelers are finally getting a break on fares.

Thunderstorms on the East Coast are causing travel headaches for tens of thousands of airline passengers.

The DOT logged a surge in complaints about airline refunds since the Covid-19 pandemic began.