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Desperate Migrants: Over 100 Refugees Living At Boston Airport Baggage Claim With No Place To Go

by Gary Leff

Jun 12 2024

More than a hundred migrants are now living at Boston Logan Airport baggage claim, creating a makeshift community using limited blankets as mattresses. The baggage claim refugee camp began earlier this year but has grown with migrants arriving at “at all hours.”

Migrants are transported to state welcome centers each day, but then brought back to the airport by nightfall since state shelters are at capacity – to live in a cold environ with hard floors, bright lights and loud announcements.

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Luxury Dog Airline Faces Legal Battle: New York Airport Trying To Shut Down Bark Air $6,000 Canine Tickets

by Gary Leff

Jun 08 2024

Bark Air is a high end startup airline for dogs flying Gulfstream G5s between New York, LA and London. Its first revenue flight was May 23.

Bark Air operates out of Westchester County airport near White Plains, and the County is suing to stop them. It’s not the dogs they object to. It’s that Westchester County has an airport at all.

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CDC Alert Triggered As O’Hare Customs Dog Goes Wild Over Maggot-Infested Bushmeat Off Amsterdam Flight

by Gary Leff

May 31 2024

A customs dog alerted to a passenger’s bag off of an arriving Amsterdam flight in Chicago on Saturday and it’s no surprise. The contents were easy to smell: raw African bushmeat that had been decomposing for 30 hours in transit, infested with maggots. The dog was so agitated that it began tearing at the plastic wrap as soon as the luggage appeared.

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Air Traffic Control Screws Up Again: American Airlines A319 Aborts Takeoff at High Speed To Avoid Another Plane

by Gary Leff

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May 30 2024

An American Airlines Airbus A319 had a near miss at Washington’s Reagan National airport on Wednesday. Flight 2134 to Boston was cleared for takeoff on runway 1, while a King Air was cleared to land. Air traffic control realized their mistake, cancelling takeoff clearance for the American Airlines flight – and telling the King Air to abort and go around. They couldn’t because they were already on the ground.

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REAL ID Act: 20 Years Of Delays – Why 2025 Won’t Be Any Different

by Gary Leff

May 16 2024

The ‘Real ID Act’ was passed in 2005, requiring enhanced security measures for people to prove their identity in order to get drivers licenses. Nineteen years later it’s never been implemented. Now TSA says they’ll finally require REAL ID-compliant drivers licenses at airport security starting in May 2025 a full twenty years later. The first deadline was in 2008. Does anyone believe them this time?

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