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Midwest hit by its first major snowstorm of season
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The first major snowstorm of the season began its slow eastward march across the Midwest Thursday, creating treacherous, sometimes deadly driving conditions and threatening to disrupt some of the nation's busiest airports...Tags: Southern U.S. Storms (2011), Air Transportation Industry, Snow Storms, Holidays, Religious Festivals
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Big Midwestern snowstorm leads to 25-vehicle crash
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The first widespread snowstorm of the season began a slow crawl across the Midwest on Thursday, creating treacherous driving conditions that, in Iowa, led to a 25-vehicle pileup that killed one person. Drivers were...Tags: Southern U.S. Storms (2011), Snow Storms, Highway Transportation, Motorvehicle Accidents, Religious Festivals
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Authorities: Passenger diverts Chicago-bound flight to Denver
DENVER (AP) — Authorities say the second flight in a week to be diverted to Denver because of an unruly passenger has landed at Denver International Airport. The Denver Post reports (bit.ly/Pdo0gg) United Airlines flight 734 from San Francisco to...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, JetBlue Airways, Judges
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UA flight has engine 'issue,' lands safely in NJ
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a United Airlines flight has landed safely at Newark after taking off from the airport for Berlin then returning when something apparently went wrong with the engine. Airline spokesman Joe Micucci said the Boeing...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Air and Space Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Federal Aviation Administration, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
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Airlines' treatment of passengers slowly improves
WASHINGTON (AP) — Flying is getting better. Honest. For airline passengers grappling with fare increases, canceled routes and a seemingly endless parade of new fees, "better" may not be the first word that comes to mind. But based on more...
Tags: Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines Co., American Airlines, Inc., Health, Wichita State University
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Senator asks airlines to drop seat fee for kids
NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Charles Schumer is urging airlines to allow families with young children to sit together without paying extra. The New York Democrat is reacting to an Associated Press story last week detailing how families this summer are...
Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Delta Air Lines, Chuck Schumer, Frontier Airlines Inc., American Airlines, Inc.
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4 hospitalized by bag odor at Boston airport
BOSTON (AP) — A noxious odor coming from a passenger's bag at Boston's Logan International Airport sent four Transportation Security Administration officials to the hospital. Airport spokesman Phil Orlandella says the odor was noticed at about 8 a....Tags: Massachusetts General Hospital, Delta Air Lines, Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Transportation Security Administration
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Mother: Airline rows too narrow for infant carrier
WASHINGTON (AP) — A California mother says she was forced off a United Airlines flight in a dispute over a seat row too narrow to accommodate an infant carrier. Melissa Bradley said in an interview that she and her party of seven were asked to...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, California, Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, DC
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Threat forces United flight to divert to Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) — A United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Frankfurt, Germany, has been diverted to Chicago after a threat was found in a bathroom. United spokesman Charles Hobart says in an email that Flight 926 landed at O'Hare International...Tags: O'Hare International Airport
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Woman charged in airline terror hoax on ex-lover
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California woman faces federal charges after calling an airline to report a fake terrorist threat hours before her ex-lover was to board an international flight. Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles say Lizet Sariol made an...Tags: Transportation, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Terrorism, Air Transportation
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United Dreamliner retakes to the skies
Signaling confidence to the public that Boeing 787s are safe to fly, the CEOs of Boeing Co. and United Continental Holdings on Monday traveled from Houston to Chicago aboard a Dreamliner. The flight, which touched down at 1:14 p.m., early and without...
Tags: Transportation, Air Transportation Industry, Air Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Travel
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Casey, Toomey author bill to create medals honoring 9/11 victims
Pennsylvania Ave.At each of the three Sept. 11 memorials in Pennsylvania, New York and Virginia there will now be displayed a Congressional Gold Medal honoring the Americans that died there. The Senate cleared for the president’s signature Thursday night a bill........
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