Cleaning Up Air Travel Messes
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(CBS/AP) Thousands of travelers spent their holiday weekend at airports waiting for flights that never took off, or looking for luggage in a sea of some ten-thousand lost bags, reports CBS News Correspondent Kelly Cobiella.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Things are back to normal at Virginia&#39;s Richmond International Airport after an airliner got stuck in the mud and gummed up landings and takeoffs for hours.
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Congested skies and bad weather last year resulted in more flight delays, more mishandled baggage and more complaints about airline service than in 2003, the government announced Thursday.
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Before heading out to unknown territories, travelers who spend a little time online can minimize such unpleasant surprises as hotel staff retribution, an airplane seat near the toilets, crying babies or wrinkles.
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Empty your cupboards of chemicals and harsh pes
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MADRID, Spain - Things people left on planes and at airports - more than 20,000 of them, including a wedding dress and a pair of rudimentary stilts - were auctioned off Tuesday in a big clear out of Madrid airport's lost-and-found department.
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Description: The Environmental Protection Agency is taking its work to the friendly skies. After random testing found contaminants, the agency decided to start regulating the water aboard airplanes.
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Why this could be the worst year ever for misplaced bags--and how to safeguard your suitcases.
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Plus: Heathrow airport using 'see through clothes' scanner on passengers.
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Our reporter Chris Ledgard visits Chateauroux in France where old planes are sent to be cut up and recycled.
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Sanitation equipment from the Oxfam charity set for Indian Ocean tsunami victims is loaded onto a plane at East Midlands Airport, central England, December 29, 2004.
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NEW YORK - You&#39;ve arrived at your travel destination only to find that your luggage has not. Certain actions can make a big difference in how quickly your bag is recovered or in what kind of reimbursement you&#39;ll receive if it&#39;s lost.
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Hand sanitizer makes it through security in one airport, then it's confiscated at another. Screening lines back up because only two of six lanes are open. And then there's the occasional all-too-intimate patdown. Those complaints and other frustrations make the nation's airport security agency about as popular as the IRS.
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The Transportation Security Administration offers these suggestions to ease your air traveling experience this holiday season:
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Description: Troubled airlines have been trying to save on high-priced fuel by cutting back on extra weight. But it turns out the biggest problem is the passengers.
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The government needs to do a better job monitoring and inspecting hazardous materials shipped aboard airlines, according to a report released Friday by the Transportation Department's inspector general.
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Travel: 'One bag only' rule lifted at some airports, but retained at others