The FAA, which oversees the nation's air-traffic system, said it would keep funding the towers until June 15 in order to resolve legal challenges brought by airports. The FAA must trim roughly 10 percent of its budget by the end of the Sept. 30 fiscal year.
The FAA, which oversees the U.S. air traffic system, must trim roughly 10 percent of its budget by the end of the Sept. 30 fiscal year. The FAA said the decision would not compromise safety because those smaller airports only handle about one percent of commercial air traffic.
FORT WORTH, Texas-- American Airlines was set Monday to begin daily flights between Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Lima, Peru. It said the route would also expand choices for one-stop travel between South America and Asia through Dallas.
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March 26- Standard& Poor's Ratings Services on Tuesday revised the outlook on Pensacola, Florida's airport revenue bonds to negative from stable. The bonds were issued for Pensacola International Airport.
WARSAW, March 26- Teenage pop star Justin Bieber paraded through a Polish airport shirtless before flying out of the country, adding to a string of peculiar incidents that have plagued his European tour.
PHILADELPHIA-- A French man accused of impersonating a pilot after he was found sitting in an airliner cockpit at Philadelphia International Airport originally asked for a seat upgrade to first class, authorities said Monday. Federal prosecutors on Monday filed charges of using a fraudulent identity against 61- year-old Philippe Jeannard of La Rochelle.
NEW DELHI, March 26- Airports Authority of India will form a joint venture with local airlines and oil companies to supply jet fuel to carriers and Reliance Industries. will be a part of it, its chairman V.P. Agrawal said on Tuesday.
DUBAI, March 26- Passenger traffic at Dubai's main airport surpassed 5 million people in February, rising 11.4 percent from a year earlier, airport authorities said on Tuesday. "We continue to stay ahead of the curve in terms of our traffic forecast of 65.4 million passengers in 2013," Dubai Airports chief executive Paul Griffiths said in the statement.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 25- Alabama authorities are investigating what caused an airport sign in a recently renovated space to fall and kill a 10- year old boy and leave his mother in serious condition.
PARIS, March 25- French troops patrolling the international airport in the capital of the Central African Republic killed two Indian citizens when three vehicles tried to enter the facility, France's defence ministry said on Monday.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 25- The mother of a 10- year-old boy killed by a falling sign at an Alabama airport was in serious condition with her own injuries on Monday, as authorities investigated what caused the accident, in a recently renovated space.
*FBI says Rajaratnam arrested Sunday at New York airport. NEW YORK, March 25- Rengan Rajaratnam was arrested Sunday at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York after FBI agents escorted him on a flight from Brazil, a spokesman for the agency said on Monday.
KALISPELL, Mont.-- The Federal Aviation Administration's final list of 149 air traffic control facilities that will be closed at small airports around the country starting next month contains Glacier Park International Airport in Kalispell, Mont..
BOISE, Idaho-- The Federal Aviation Administration's final list of 149 air traffic control facilities that will be closed at small airports around the country starting next month contains four in Idaho.
*FBI says Rajaratnam arrested Sunday at New York airport. NEW YORK, March 25- Rengan Rajaratnam was arrested Sunday at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York after FBI agents escorted him on a flight from Brazil, a spokesman for the agency said on Monday.
MONTGOMERY, Ala.-- As airport officials tried to figure out how a 300- pound arrival-departure panel fell off the wall and onto a family, the mother of a boy who was killed by the sign lay in a hospital with her own injuries, still unaware of what happened.
*Rebels clashed with army inside capital. *France sends more troops to secure airport. BANGUI, March 23- Central African Republic rebels clashed with government forces inside the capital on Saturday as they sought to topple President Francois Bozize, prompting France to send in more troops to secure the international airport.