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Pope Leo from the flight deck on take off from Madrid!
These are the airports seeing significant TSA security wait times. 90% of TSA workers showed up for work yesterday.
This explanation doesn't add up. When drones enter controlled airspace, planes are immediately rerouted/grounded and this did not happen last night. Pilots were given more than 1.5 hours notice of the closure and were allowed to land and take off during this period.
The FAA and DOW acted swiftly to address a cartel drone incursion. The threat has been neutralized, and there is no danger to commercial travel in the region. The restrictions have been lifted and normal flights are resuming.
BREAKING: The Pima County Sheriff’s Department, with assistance from the FBI, has detained an individual for questioning in connection with the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told ABC News. abcnews.link/dm8fggK
Breaking: American Airlines is offering flight attendants double pay to work Wednesday as the airline struggles with more than 10,000 cancellations from the storm. Pilots are being offered 5 hours of extra pay. AA has cancelled 8% of flights tomorrow and has lost $150-200 million
Nicolas Maduro is expected to arrive at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay before being transferred to an FBI plane en route to New York, sources tell me, @PierreTABC & @SweeneyABC
BREAKING: The FAA will require airlines to begin cutting flights from these 40 airports starting as early as tomorrow. Airlines will starts cutting 4% of flights per day until they reach 10% per day early next week.
Air traffic controllers across the country are calling in sick tonight. The FAA is limiting the amount of planes in the air. Thousands of flights have been delayed and cancelled. These are the facilities with not enough staff to handle all scheduled flights.
He called United Airlines and then he was scammed out of $17,000 abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/man…
United Airlines says its systems are coming back online right now. Travelers can expect delays throughout the night. More than 800 United flights have been delayed so far.
BREAKING: United Airlines has issued a nationwide ground stop and is holding all departures due to a technology issue.
The FAA is investigating a close call between two commercial jets that were taking off on parallel runways at San Francisco International Airport. @SweeneyABC reports the details.
JUST IN: The FAA is investigating after a United flight crossed directly in front of a United Express flight seconds after takeoff in San Francisco. The FAA says the United A320 turned without authorization. FR24 says the planes came within 275 ft vertical and 1950 ft horizontal.
Transportation Sec. Duffy laid out plans on Monday to improve safety at Newark International Airport. @SweeneyABC breaks down the proposed improvements and how that could impact summer travel season.
A rate sight today at Joint Base Andrews. Kamala Harris’ plane taking off before Joe Bidens on their final departures.
American Airlines flights are resuming and the FAA has lifted the nationwide ground stop.
BREAKING: American Airlines has grounded all flights due to a technical issue. The FAA has issued a nationwide ground stop.
BREAKING: FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker is stepping down January 20th. Whitaker was just over a year into a 5 year term.
BREAKING: TSA says Sunday was the busiest day for air travel in its history, screening more than 3.08 million passengers. The previous record was 7/7/24 with 3,013,622 passengers.
A sleeping, deaf/non-verbal United Airlines passenger was attacked on a San Fran to D.C. flight. A man sitting in 35F used the lavatory and on his way back to his seat he began punching a sleeping passenger in 12F. It’s believed the men had never met. abcnews.go.com/US/bloody-assa…
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