Feds to investigate air travel woes
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Philadelphia, December 28 - Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta has ordered an investigation of Comair and US Airways for problems that seriously hampered holiday travel.
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Federal regulators should more aggressively oversee how airlines handle customer-service issues in the wake of growing flight delays and reports of passengers being stranded on tarmacs for hours, a government watchdog reported yesterday.
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman  Mineta said on Monday he was launching a probe of air travel  disruptions over the Christmas holiday weekend at US Airways  Group Inc. and Delta Air Line Inc.'s regional carrier Comair.
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Time on the tarmac has been underreported, a federal agency admits, as the summer travel season reaches crunch time
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Airlines would have to triple compensation for passengers involuntarily bumped from flights under one proposal being considered by U.S. transportation officials.
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The U.S. Justice Department said on  Thursday it was investigating possible anticompetitive  practices in airline passenger fares and cargo shipments, hours  after UK authorities raided British Airways Plc in what was  described as a transatlantic probe.
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If airlines don't improve on record flight delays, the federal government will impose its own solutions, the outgoing Federal Aviation Administration administrator warned Tuesday.
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A few days after Northwest Airlines Corp. imposed charges on travel agents and independent Web sites that sell tickets on its flights, business travelers are being left to sort out the impact.
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The failure on Friday of a computer system used to help track airplanes flying across the U.S. led to delays and cancelled flights -- and federal officials still aren't sure what went wrong.
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The U.S. government wants airlines  to turn over information on more than a million people who  traveled in June to test a new system for identifying  passengers who may pose a security risk, officials said on  Tuesday.
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The government will try to ease chronic nationwide air travel delays by limiting flights where those backups usually begin -- in New York City
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The Department of Transportation launched a formal investigation yesterday into the weekend's travel disruptions at US Airways and Comair that left thousands of passengers stranded or separated from their baggage.
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WASHINGTON - Everyone who took a commercial flight within the United States in June will have travel information turned over to the government so it can test a new system for identifying potential terrorists, federal officials announced Tuesday.    The Transportation Security Administration unveiled details for its previously announced "Secure Flight" program, its second attempt at finding a better way to screen passengers without infringing on privacy...
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A Web site commissioned by the TSA to help travelers whose names were erroneously listed on airline watch lists had security issues, a Congressional report says.
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The Federal Aviation Administration needs to improve its oversight of air carriers and passengers who bring hazardous materials onto airplanes, according to a report released yesterday by the Department of Transportation's inspector general.
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WASHINGTON - Everyone who took a commercial flight within the United States in June will have his travel information turned over to the government so it can test a new system for identifying potential terrorists, federal officials announced Tuesday.    The Transportation Security Administration plans to order airlines to turn over the information in November...
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British Airways Plc Chief Executive Rod Eddington has launched an investigation into last week&#39;s flight delays and cancellations that stranded thousands of passengers, the Observer