Delays mount at Brazil airports
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More than half of all flights in Brazil were delayed or canceled on Tuesday for the third straight day as the country's air crisis deepened following a deadly crash last week and a major radar outage.
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LONDON  - Thousands of British Airways passengers have been stranded by cancelled flights and lengthy delays at Heathrow Airport because of staff shortages and technical problems at the airline.
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Pressure mounts for Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport to close in the wake of a crash which killed some 200 people.
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An easing of security did not solve all of the problems plaguing travelers trying to fly out of Britain's main airports Tuesday, where delays and cancellations exacerbated confusion over shifting rules governing hand luggage.
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A lingering dispute over a contract imposed on air traffic controllers last year is delaying the introduction of legislation needed to modernize the nation's air traffic control system, according to congressional staff members and administration officials.
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British Airways cancelled four more flights due to what it called lingering problems from a staff shortage at London's Heathrow Airport which delayed thousands of travellers earlier in the week.
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DALLAS -- US air traffic slowed yesterday at 11 major airports due to a computer malfunction and thunderstorms, adding to the year's record delays, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
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Thousands of passengers were stranded or delayed at Reno/Tahoe International Airport on Saturday after a piece of landing equipment broke down for the second time this month, stalling all planes for nearly seven hours on one of the yearâs busiest travel
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Continuing flight delays and cancellations led to angry confrontations yesterday between JetBlue Airways and its passengers.
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Just days after Brazil's deadliest plane crash a radar outage over the Amazon spread the country's aviation crisis overseas, spawning ripple-effect delays at a half-dozen U.S. airports.
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Debate over the cause of Brazil's worst air crash shifted on Thursday from widespread claims of a faulty runway to potential pilot error or failure of the plane's brakes.
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Flying through South America's busiest airports has become frightening and time-consuming for passengers and pilots alike as a surge in travelers overwhelms underfunded air traffic control systems.
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Flights at Heathrow airport are delayed after a passenger jet lands short of the runway.
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Some airlines have taken the initiative to use satellite navigation and other tools to help smooth out an air traffic system that is plagued by delays.
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Dozens of flights cancelled from Heathrow and other airports, leaving thousands stranded or delayed
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A Brazilian airliner crashed and exploded in flames on Tuesday at Brazil's busiest airport, and around 200 people were feared dead in the country's second major air disaster in less than a year.
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The New York area's three major airports experienced delays of two to three hours on Friday because of a computer problem and thunderstorms, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said.