EasyJet and Belfast International Airport respond to a report by the Air Accident Investigation Branch into an emergency evacuation.

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Report into smoke in cabin flight

Cardiff Airport appoints a specialist recruitment agency to find a new boss following a turbulent week which saw the departure of its managing director.

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Airport starts search for new MD

The managing director of under-fire Cardiff Airport leaves his post, it emerges, while a new operations director is appointed by the Spanish owners.

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Cardiff Airport boss leaves job

ACCORDING TO Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) whistleblowers, air traffic controllers in the New York area have slept on the job, left shifts early and used personal electronic gadgets while working in the control room. Emergency service helicopters have been inadequately equipped with night-vision systems, potentially interfering with pilots’ ability to read instruments. Unauthorized aircraft have entered U.S. airspace near Puerto Rico. Inconsistent runway rules at the Detroit airport have caused planes to come too close together during takeoff and landing. Planes have flown with electrical wiring and fuel tank systems that violate FAA airworthiness directives. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: Taking air safety complaints seriously

Seems no one is immune from the tender mercies of the TSA pat-down. First, we learned that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) , the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was subjected to a handsy search . And now we learn of the latest high-profile search-ee: former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger . Read full article > >

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Henry Kissinger gets TSA pat-down

Investigators are studying an explosive device they say terrorists in Yemen crafted to slip past airport metal detectors and onto a U.S.-bound plane.

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New sophistication seen in bomb plot

Experts in the United States have been analysing a sophisticated new al-Qaeda bomb to see if it could have slipped past airport security.

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Have airports become a horrible experience?

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Has the airport experience become horrible?

Long queues for passport control checks at UK airports are a fact of life but are still an “unacceptable” part of travel, Stansted Airport bosses say.

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Long airport wait ‘unacceptable’

Even with the demand for seats increasing, the big airlines have not restored many of their flights, particularly on routes to small airports.

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Regional Airlines Squeezed by Flight Cutbacks and Higher Fares

Long queues at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5 passport control were cleared overnight, but BAA says it is too early to know if they will return on Saturday.

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Questions over queues at Heathrow

Long queues were persisting at Heathrow Airport passport control on Friday evening, BAA has confirmed.

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Javier Nunez Florian last seen at Miami airport.

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Missing Cuban Actor Honored

Pakistan begins mourning the victims of a plane crash in a residential area near Islamabad airport – all 127 on board are believed to have died.

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Pakistan mourns air crash victims

An airplane with 127 people on board crashed Friday near an airport in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Pakistan's GEO-TV reported, citing sources. The country's Civilian Aviation Authority confirmed reports of a crash, the station said.

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No survivors in Pakistan jet crash