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Approximately 1,300 arrivals and departures were cancelled with flights enroute to Heathrow turned back around or diverting elsewhere because the airport couldn’t accept them. According to data from aviation analytics company Cirium, as many as 145,000 passengers could be affected based on scheduled seats and flights.
A violent brawl at Chicago O’Hare’s Terminal 2 escalated into a shootout around 12:54 a.m. Wednesday morning, leaving a 25‑year‑old man wounded and disrupting airport operations for several hours.
The fight started at baggage claim and spilled out onto the street. Heated words escalated to violent blows, one assailant grabbed a weapon from their car and returned to open fire before returning to the vehicle.
A 52-year old retired boxer, Musa Abdraim became a hero on Friday at the Almaty International Airport in Kazakhstan when he disarmed a knife-wielding attacker who was holding a young female security officer hostage and threatening to detonate a bomb.
The Department of Homeland Security announced plans to end unionization of TSA screeners. Unionization of the screening workforce was forbidden when the agency was set up after 9/11. This was added in the Obama administration.
The Department of Transportation violated federal law by improperly awarding Washington National Airport’s new long-haul flight slots exclusively to major airlines, ignoring the legal eligibility of Spirit Airlines—improperly treating Alaska Airlines as a small carrier and excluding Spirit Airlines from the competition.
Austin airport is currently tendering a request for proposal for a financial institution lounge project. Their goal is to open an American Express Centurion lounge, Chase Sapphire lounge, or Capital One lounge as part of the “West Infill” project that’s currently under construction.
There’s now ‘Uber for a security detail with motorcade’ that appears to have launched in New York and Los Angeles. You pick the number of vehicles and the uniform your mercenaries will wear.
Transexual TSA screeners are no longer permitted to perform pat-downs on passengers and are instead being limited to other duties. Individual airport security screeners report receiving a memo about this change, and a TSA spokesperson confirms the shift in policy to me.
American Airlines flight 2863 from Austin to Charlotte was delayed four and a half hours on Friday afternoon because a passenger named their wifi network “I have a bomb.”
Police boarded the aircraft and asked the passenger with that network name to identify themselves, but they did not. Passengers were all taken off the aircraft and held, cordoned-off in the gate area.
Indonesia’s Immigration and Corrections Ministry dismissed 30 officers from the Jakarta airport after numerous allegations they were demanding bribes from Chinese travelers. A diplomatic letter from the Chinese Embassy in Jakarta detailing 44 extortion cases was leaked, putting pressure on the Indonesian government to act.
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