Atlanta airport delays have most ripple effects

A study says more delays at major airports across the country were attributed to problems at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport than at any other. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said the report by the Government Accountability Office shows that problems in Atlanta affect air traffic all over the country. Hartsfield-Jackson is the world’s busiest airport. Hartsfield-Jackson ranked [...]

Airports up, running as ash clears over Europe

A band of volcanic ash was drifting in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean Monday and adding hours to flights from North America to Europe as planes diverted around it. Flights across Europe were operating normally after the dispersal of another plume of volcanic ash that disrupted air traffic and forced some airport closures over [...]

Security upgrades mean delays at Charlotte airport

Airline travelers in the Carolinas should expect longer waits as security is upgraded at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. Multiple media outlets report that officials plan to close a security checkpoint Monday through the end of April to install full-body scanners. Charlotte is one of a new wave of airports getting the equipment as the country beefs [...]

Air travelers to see tougher security before beach

For those who haven’t flown in a while, be prepared to be scanned, swabbed or thoroughly patted down. Maybe all three. Many spring break travelers are about to have their first encounter with airport security measures stepped up after Christmas, when a man was accused of trying to blow up a U.S. jetliner using explosives [...]

Some air travelers complain about body scans

Hundreds of U.S. air travelers have lodged complaints over use of full-body security scanners in the past year, charging they violate personal privacy and may be harmful to their health, documents released on Tuesday showed. The United States began testing the devices in a pilot program after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, but the pace [...]

Delta Air Lines to shift flights at Cincinnati’s main airport

Delta Air Lines Inc. said Tuesday that it plans to reduce operations at Cincinnati’s main airport from two concourses to one and take over the functions of a subsidiary that now provides ground-handling services at the airport. The changes could lead to layoffs for 840 Regional Elite Airline Services employees that now handle ground operations [...]

Rome airport tries new body scanner technology

Rome’s main airport is trying out Italy’s first body scanner at a terminal that serves U.S. airliners. Authorities said the scanner went into use Thursday at Leonardo da Vinci airport’s Terminal 5 on an experimental basis. If there are no problems after a few weeks, more machines will be added. Italy’s civil aviation agency says [...]