L.A. Airport Terminals Open After Scares
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LOS ANGELES - Four terminals at Los Angeles International Airport were shut down for more than three hours Saturday after a passenger bypassed security at one terminal and two flashlight batteries exploded during screening at another, authorities said.    The incidents, about a half-hour apart, were apparently unrelated and there was no link to terrorism, according to the federal Transportation Security Administration...
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Rhonda Gaynier, a New York real-estate lawyer, was flying home from Tampa, Fla., and passing through airport security when she was asked to step aside for additional screening. What happened next shocked her: Using an open hand, a security agent touched her on her shoulders, under her arms, around her waist, across her bra strap, and between her breasts, Gaynier said &#151; all in front of other passengers.
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Air travelers can now visit medical clinics, nail salons and spas while waiting out delays.
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Washington area airports began randomly inspecting vehicles yesterday after an attack on Scotland's Glasgow Airport, but  travelers appeared unfazed by the beefed-up security measures.
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Looking around San Diego&#39;s Lindbergh Field, it&#39;s hard to tell that the airline business is in distress. On any given day, tens of thousands of people make their way through its terminals to travel to destinations near and far.
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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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By Steve Huettel, St. Petersburg Times, Fla.  Sep. 8--The Tampa Bay area's bad-luck airport is about to catch a break.   St.
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LOS ANGELES -- Airport operations were back to normal early Wednesday following a radio failure at a Federal Aviation Administration control facility that tied up travelers for hours.
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LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles airport, LAX, is considered one of the most stringently secure in the country. As someone who passes through there on a fairly regular basis, I can certainly attest to that fact.
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LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles International Airport was shut down early Saturday because of a possible security breach and a separate incident at an international terminal security screening station, an airport spokesman said.    No information was immediately available on the incident at Tom Bradley International Terminal, airport spokesman Harold Johnson said...
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A communications failure at a Federal Aviation Administration control facility forced some airports in the West to hold flights on the ground Tuesday afternoon, a Los Angeles International Airport spokeswoman said.
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The Federal Aviation Administration is now releasing new information as to what caused major delays for air travelers at several southern California airports.
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BOISE, Idaho - A woman who was returning a rented minivan at the Boise Airport drove it through the terminal.    A "confused senior citizen," whose name and age were not released, followed an outside "terminal access" sign Tuesday as she bumped the vehicle through a set of automatic-opening double-doors on the west end, airport spokeswoman Larissa Stouffer said...
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Northwest Airlines said on Thursday that its terminal at Detroit Metropolitan Airport has reopened after an unattended package forced its closure.
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A scare triggered by a vibrating sex toy shut down a major Australian regional airport for almost an hour on Monday. The vibrating object was discovered on Monday morning inside a garbage can at the terminal
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Las Vegas's chance for a new boom may be limited by its airport, which is busting at the seams even before the addition over the next four years of around 40,000 new hotel rooms on the Las Vegas Strip, Deutsche Bank analyst Bill Lerner said on Tuesday.
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Though a Federal Aviation Administration radio communications failure has not yet been fixed, administration spokesman Mike Fergus reports that flights are being allowed back into southern California.