President Barack Obama's budget ax is falling hard on a program that allows pilots to carry handguns in the cockpit as a last line of defense against terrorists.
A baggage screener at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport has been arrested after being accused of stealing $5,000 in cash from a traveler's jacket, according to the Port Authority Police Department.
An imam and leader of the Shiite Muslim community in Trinidad and Tobago was sentenced to life in prison for conspiring to attack a New York airport by exploding fuel tanks and fuel pipelines under the airport, the Justice Department said Friday.
The 40-year-old unemployed tow-truck driver who confessed to a firebombing spree on New Year's Day is apparently no stranger to confinement.
An American Airlines flight made a safe emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday night after the crew smelled something burning in the cockpit, officials said.
Airline passengers left stranded by a freak snowstorm that pounded the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states were waiting to get to their destinations Sunday, many after spending a restless night on cots or airport floors.
Meteorologist Chad Myers reports from Pennsylvania as an early snowstorm strikes.
The cat that vanished in baggage claim at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and whose plight became an online sensation has been found after being missing for two months.
Do airlines pad flight times just to inflate their on-time rankings?
The earthquake that struck the U.S. northeast on Tuesday slowed but didn't halt major transportation services.
Excessive heat warnings are in place in 23 states across the U.S. Melisa Raney reports.
More than 150 turtles crossed a runway at New York's JFK Airport to lay their eggs, causing several flight disruptions.
Love is in the air at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. More than 150 turtles crossed over an active runway and disrupted air traffic on Wednesday so that they could continue their mating season.
A Lufthansa jumbo jet nearly collided with another plane at JFK International Airport. CNN's Mary Snow reports.
Trinidad native Kareem Ibrahim was convicted Thursday of conspiring to detonate fuel tanks and a fuel pipeline at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, according to a statement from the U.S. Eastern District Court of New York.
A Malaysian man accused of hacking into the Federal Reserve's computer system pleaded guilty Wednesday in New York.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that it will investigate what happened Monday night when a massive Air France jet clipped a smaller aircraft at John F. Kennedy Airport.
A number of security lapses in an airport shuttle system in New York is raising concerns among some Port Authority officers and state senators.
The Transportation Security Administration is facing criticism after three box cutters were discovered aboard a JetBlue flight at New York's JFK airport on Saturday.
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Guyanese man convicted of plotting to detonate explosives at John F. Kennedy International Airport to life behind bars.
Authorities in New York seized more than $9 million worth of opium hidden inside a shipment of porcelain figurines last month at John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Thursday.
There's something underfoot at airports around the world that most travelers ignore, but that's getting a lot of attention.
In the biggest bust of its kind in recent memory, Customs and Border Protection authorities at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport arrested a woman allegedly carrying 91 pellets of heroin inside her body.
Airline passengers who spent 11 hours stuck on the tarmac at John F. Kennedy International Airport were unloaded Tuesday afternoon in the latest example of the frustrating effects of a massive blizzard that delayed thousands of would-be holiday travelers.
Matthew Bishop tells CNN's Josh Levs what it was like to be stuck in a plane on the tarmac all night.
Two former airline workers at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport have been indicted on charges they ran an elaborate drug trafficking scheme, smuggling cocaine into the United States on commercial jetliners, federal officials announced Thursday.
A passenger was removed from a JetBlue flight headed to Florida on Saturday night due to security concerns, an airline spokeswoman said.
It's safe to say air travelers are paying more attention -- and maybe giving a little more respect -- to flight attendants after the incident on a JetBlue flight that has mesmerized the country and put a new spotlight on the once-glamorous profession.
CNN's Allan Chernoff explains why flight attendant Steven Slater has become somewhat of a folk hero.
Slater earns rousing support online for standing up against "flight attendant abuse" after a spat with a passenger
Two men were convicted Monday of plotting explosions at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
A terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York was evacuated Sunday evening for about two hours after a caller phoned in a threat, according to a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Opening statements have begun in the New York terrorism case of two men accused of plotting explosions at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Russell DeFreitas and Abdul Kadir are accused of conspiring to blow up JFK's jet-fuel supply tanks and pipeline in 2007.
Flights resumed this week on the longest runway at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport after a four-month closure for construction to help reduce future flight delays.
Airlines hoping for exemptions at some airports to the tarmac delay rule going into effect next week are out of luck.
A passenger stuck on a flight for 16 hours rationed food, helped moms and told the whole story in real time online.
Passenger David Martin knew the situation on Virgin America Flight 404 was unraveling Saturday when members of the flight crew began snapping at passengers.
As the relatively dormant air travel season ends, the ramp-up of airline service to accommodate the demand of spring and summer travelers begins. This is good news for most, as more flights are added, providing more options for travelers. But as many frequent fliers know, more flights can mean more delays.
A runway closure at John F. Kennedy International Airport has prompted JetBlue Airways and Delta Air Lines to ask for a temporary exemption at JFK to a rule designed to keep planeloads of passengers from getting stranded on the tarmac.
The FAA is investigating an incident at New York's JFK Airport where a child apparently directed air traffic.
New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport isn't exactly the poster child for on-time departures and things may get worse before they get better for travelers using the airport this spring.
A body was found in the landing gear bay of an airplane that arrived at Tokyo's Narita Airport Sunday, the airport announced.
A Brooklyn man faces a trespassing charge after allegedly causing a security breach at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday.
A security breach at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday prompted authorities to evacuate a terminal, disrupting travel and sparking delays for hundreds of passengers.
Reagan National airport reopens after being hit with 16 inches of snow.
Tapes released by federal officials detail efforts by an airline pilot to allow passengers off his stranded plane,
Claustrophobia was not a condition Bill Johnson understood.
Cooper and Zellweger, who costar in Code 39, have an intimate breakfast and go sightseeing
To guard against public indifference to climate change the United Nations has enlisted a coalition of the world's leading advertising agencies.
Three aides take the 3-year-old out of Malawi, just a week after her adoption was approved
Hanna subsiding
updated: Sun Sep 07 2008 16:30:00
Rain from Tropical Storm Hanna fell on Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina Friday. CNN's Reynolds Wolf reports.
After earning a reputation as a killer in Haiti, Tropical Storm Hanna amounted to little more than a windy rainstorm along the Atlantic Coast on Saturday.
I'm strapping myself in for a ride to the edge of the sky. Outside my porthole, the ground crew is preparing the vehicle for launch. The entry hatch is sealed, the mobile gantry pulled away. All systems are go. Soon, powerful thrusters will accelerate us to more than 500 miles per hour. At the peak of our trajectory, we will soar above about 80 percent of the atmosphere. The view of Earth will be panoramic.
An incident involving two airborne passenger jets on Friday has raised questions of a second possible near collision within a week at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Eleven hundred and six steep, stone steps that never seem to end.
Three men accused of plotting to bomb New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport pleaded not guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in New York.
Two U.S. customs agents were arrested on charges they helped smuggle drugs and other contraband through New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
A Lufthansa flight en route to New York diverted to Shannon Airport in Ireland after a 2-year-old girl died on the flight, Irish and airline officials said.
Julia Abrantes spent hours cleaning her house and primping in front of a mirror before heading to John F. Kennedy airport in New York. She was there to pick up the love of her life, whom she had met on the Internet.
A snowstorm blanketed New York City early Friday, causing headaches for commuters and delaying flights at the region's major airports
The government will try to ease chronic nationwide air travel delays by limiting flights where those backups usually begin -- in New York City
Kim Kardashian is filming her efforts to recover her camera, computer and other belongings worth $50,000 stolen at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport for season two of her reality show.
Millions of Americans are joining the bustle of Thanksgiving travelers on the eve of one of the nation's busiest travel days.
How do you tackle a city like New York in the space of five days? I prepared an empty suitcase, a good guidebook, a well-credited bank card and the will to ignore aching feet in my quest to pack in one of the world's biggest cities.
Federal agents bust an alleged cocaine and heroin smuggling ring centered on New York's JFK airport.
Eighteen people, including 10 airline workers at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, appeared in federal court Tuesday on international drug smuggling and distribution charges.
Mara Haensel started her vacation braced for disaster.
Major flight delays in the northeastern United States and Atlanta, Georgia, this week could be a telling sign of what is in store for air travelers this summer.
The fourth suspect wanted in connection with an alleged plot to attack New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport turned himself in to Trinidad authorities Tuesday, police said.
Four men have been charged with conspiring to blow up jet fuel supply tanks and pipelines at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Supporting a baseball or soccer team might be a matter of national pride or geographical prejudice, but such parochial concerns aren't part of Formula 1's global agenda.
Bad weather kept JetBlue Airways passengers on a Cancun, Mexico-bound flight trapped on the tarmac for eight hours Wednesday at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
CNNMoney: Techs lead reboundupdated: Wed Sep 13 2006 09:18:00
U.S. stocks turned higher after Wednesday's open as investors concerned themselves with oil supplies and prices.
Police may be close to finding two more of the missing Egyptian students who failed to show up at Montana State University, a school spokeswoman said Friday.
Monopoly, invented in 1935, is getting with the times.
Such is life -- police called off the search Thursday for award-winning show dog Bohem C'est La Vie, who bolted from her travel cage at a New York airport after she took a breed award at this week's Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
A new airline will soon be plying the fiercely contested trans-Atlantic route, with a finely tuned product focused on the business traveler.
Clam diggers on the muddy flats near Boston's Logan International Airport in Massachusetts will be loaned GPS-equipped cell phones so they can alert authorities to suspicious activity -- just one of several ideas being tested this summer to protect airports from terrorists.
Fortune: All the rageupdated: Mon Mar 21 2005 00:01:00
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Two Delta Airlines international flights were briefly the subject of security concerns Friday, but both planes landed without incident at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, federal officials said.
A Greek passenger jet grounded at London's Stansted Airport following a phoned-in bomb scare has resumed its journey to New York.
Airport security officials unveiled a new scanning device Thursday that can detect traces of substances used in making bombs.
The New York City Police Department said Thursday it has cracked a major drug ring it says brought more than $75 million worth of cocaine from Guyana to the New York area each year.
A man who claimed he was being abducted -- leading to the diversion of a Moroccan jetliner after it left a New York airport -- was charged Friday evening with making false statements to the FBI, a statement from the Justice Department said.
Best new airline. Nineteen-month-old JetBlue may be the next best answer to Southwest Airlines. Fly from New York City's JFK airport to New Orleans for as little as $89 one way, to Tampa for $88 or...
You can find business advice in the oddest places, but few people look to the airline industry--save Southwest and perhaps Continental--for tips on making customers happy. Add JetBlue Airways and i...
There is no better cure for the travel bug than New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport. Just two hours in limbo at JFK--coming or going--will sap the wanderlust of the hardiest jet setter. And the...
Too often, travelers seem to leave their street smarts at home. ''There aren't any new scams,'' says Bob Louden, a 21-year veteran of New York City's police force who trains cops at John Jay Colleg...
Remember that $2,000 custom-made suit you brought back from your last trip to London? You filled out the declaration card on the plane and upon arrival paid the 7 1/2% duty to the U.S. Customs Serv...
Wouldn't you know? The retail frontier that Bloomingdale's blazed in 1986 with two experimental Bloomie's Express shops at New York's Kennedy Airport is being copied by others in Phoenix, Baltimore...
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