This really is spectacular news, because airports are the worst be design, but the Federal Aviation Administration isn't waiting for the President's signature on that bill to fix the sequester-caused furloughs that were making everything so much worse. Your airport experience will go back to its normal levels of awful starting on Sunday evening.
Operating with a laser-like focus and speed rarely seen in Washington these days, the House and Senate have now both passed a bill designed to fix the FAA's furlough problem, proving that Congess can fix problems quickly — as long as those problems directly impact Congresspeople.
In a marathon session before a weeklong recess, Senators finally found a way to agree on something Thursday night, when they passed a bill to end flight controller furloughs.
One of those notable "real world consequences" that came out of the government's sequestration debacle hit the country on Sunday, but the real world people that are supposed to be affected by the cuts remain unfazed.
An alarming dispatch from the Hack In The Box security conference in Amsterdam arrived on Wednesday: a hacker says he's found a way to take over airplane controls. That's probably not true.
Following through on President Obama's biggest sequester doomsday scenarios, the FAA has announced it will shut down 173 air traffic control towers due to forced budget cuts.
The FAA and FBI are investigating a report from a pilot who reported seeing a small "drone" over New York City. But the conflation, as even the Senate remains shrouded in secrecy, of every unmanned aircraft into the single term "drone" isn't just inaccurate — it's dangerous.
It just got real for Boeing. On Wednesday evening, the Federal Aviation Administration said that it was grounding all of the 787 Dreamliners operated by U.S. carriers due to safety concerns.
Wednesday marked another day in Japan and another emergency landing for a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. This time it's serious, though. Smoke in the cockpit, serious.
The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered a safety review of Boeing's flagship plane after two more incidents raised troubling concerns about their integrity.
A row of seats coming unbolted off the floor of an aircraft mid-flight should be a freak occurrence. It isn't for American Airlines, and now that it's happened twice, the Federal Aviation Administration is getting involved.
Just as all hope was lost for flyers in the crusade to use gadgets during take-off and landing, American Airlines just got the Federal Aviation Administration's go-ahead to use iPads during all phases of flight. It seems unfair to passengers packing iPads, doesn't it?
Following a number of FOIA requests, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) now has a list of the towns, counties, states and agencies with permission to fly drones.
In this year's edition of their annual gag very serious press release, the Department of Transportation has announced today that, as far as the Federal Aviation Administration is concerned, all systems are go for Santa Claus's flight across the world.
An iPhone 4 mysteriously, spontaneously combusted on an airplane in Australia on Monday, less than a 24 hours after The New York Times published an attention-getting article suggesting the Federal Aviation Administration might be going overboard in their fear of gadgets on planes.
A funding bill hailed as a bipartisan success almost got derailed thanks to one man
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The bill gives temporary funding until September 16th
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