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27 min ago | USA Today

Japanese airline resumes Dreamliner flights

All Nippon Airways, Japan's largest airline, will resume flying the Boeing 787 Dreamliner this weekend, a few days earlier than expected.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Aircraft, Boeing 787, Boeing, US News, Autos

4 hrs ago | Tripso.com

Privacy and travel - the DOT starts to take a look

Many of us have heard about privacy issues with Websites and in general with the Internet.

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Related Topix: us Travel, Travel, US News

8 hrs ago | Carlsbad Current-Argus

Boutique Air protests Carlsbad's air service contract with NM Airlines

A California-based company that hoped to land a federal contract for Carlsbad's subsidized air service is protesting the government's awarding of the contract to New Mexico Air.

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Related Topix: Carlsbad, NM, Albuquerque, NM, US News

Thu May 23, 2013

NBC Los Angeles

Nighttime Curfew Bill Aims to Cut Valley Jet Noise

A bill introduced on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, would tighten a voluntary flight curfew at Bob Hope Airport, seen in this file photo.

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Related Topix: US News, Burbank, CA, US Politics, Brad Sherman, US House of Representatives, Adam Schiff, Democrat, Sherman-Oaks, CA

The Daily Breeze

Branson announces plans for Christmas launch of Virgin into space

Branson, in remarks last week during a trip to Dubai, said the first public Virgin Galactic flight would happen Dec.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Christmas, World News, United Arab Emirates, Middle East, US News, Mojave, CA

The East Hampton Star

New Helicopter Routes Endorsed

A plan devised by a task force to "spread the pain" of helicopter noise over three routes into and out of East Hampton Airport was supported by a majority of the East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday, although officials acknowledged it would make no one happy.

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Related Topix: East Hampton, NY, Sag Harbor, NY, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Timothy Bishop, Democrat, Southold, NY, Shelter Island, NY

WLTX-TV Columbia

Feds Investigate After Plane Parts Land on GA Home

Federal authorities are investigating after a Boeing 747 on approach to Atlanta's airport lost parts from its right wing that landed on a woman's house in Clayton County.

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Related Topix: Flying, Life, Hobbies, Boeing 747, Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Aircraft, US News, Atlanta, GA

PC Magazine

Study: Electronics Use on U.S. Flights On the Rise

The use of electronic devices by airline travelers in the United States has been surging over the past four years and grew again in the first several months of 2013, according to a new study from DePaul University's Chaddick Institute of Metropolitan Planning.

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Related Topix: US News

Air & Space

Alaska's Crash Epidemic

The slopes of Alaska's Gastineau Channel framed the single-engine Cessna 172RG Cutlass on descent into Juneau on the clear afternoon of May 30, 1998.

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Related Topix: Alaska, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, US News, Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration

Sag Harbor Online

East Hampton Airport Fees Hearing Brings Out Anti-Noise Advocates

John Kirrane can't vote in East Hampton Town, but he believes his quality of life and potentially the value of his Noyac home have been so damaged by the East Hampton Airport that he can no longer stay silent.

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Related Topix: East Hampton, NY, US News

Wed May 22, 2013

The Island Packet

Hilton Head Island committee urges denial of Beach City Place rezoning

A Hilton Head Island planning committee recommended Wednesday that Town Council deny a developer's plan to rezone a failed, 8.56-acre housing development off Beach City Road near the airport runway.

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Related Topix: Hilton Head Island, SC, US News

WKYC-TV Cleveland

There was an incident Friday at Akron-Canton Regional Airport that cost some passengers time

Nate Bernard is heading home to Fort Myers, Florida. He says when it comes to flying, safety comes first, but he also doesn't want to be delayed.

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Related Topix: US News

KELO-TV Sioux Falls

Greens At Risk

"It's kind of a sliver of the golf course, but it's an important sliver that requires some holes to move around to accommodate it," Dakota Golf Management's Tom Jansa said.

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Related Topix: US News

National Review Online

Michael Tanner: Our Indispensable Government

Here is just one example: Among the many outrages that congressional Democrats have assigned to the sequester is that it could reduce the available slots in the Head Start program by as many as 70,000 children.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Steny Hoyer, Social Security, Personal Finance, Tax

Salt Lake Tribune

Why power down our phones on planes? The questions fly

When Kenneth Kirchoff notices that an airline passenger has failed to power off his gadget as instructed, he'll politely point out the oversight.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Claire McCaskill, US Senate, Democrat

USA Today

Tablet use soars among U.S. airline passengers

Passengers are increasingly relying on their tablets and other personal electronic devices for entertainment and work on U.S. domestic flights, even though there is a ban on their use during takeoff and Passengers are increasingly relying on their tablets and other personal electronic devices for entertainment and work on U.S. domestic flights, ... (more)

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Related Topix: DePaul University, US News

AOPA Pilot

Massive tornado devastates Oklahoma

State officials in Oklahoma confirmed 24 people, including nine children, lost their lives as a massive tornado ripped through Oklahoma City and its suburbs on May 20.

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Related Topix: Oklahoma City, OK, US News

Arutz Sheva Israel News

At Least 51 Dead as Tornado Hits Oklahoma

A powerful tornado blasted an area outside of Oklahoma City on Monday, leveling homes and killing at least 51 people.

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Related Topix: Tornado, Oklahoma, Natural Disasters, Moore, OK, US News, Weather

Tue May 21, 2013

The Jersey Journal

With new plane and new duds, United celebrates 25 years at Newark airport

United Airlines Chairman and CEO Jeff Smisek, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, and Port Authority Chairman David Samson and Deputy Executive Director Director Bill Baroni gathered today to celebrate the airline's 25th anniversary in Newark.

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Related Topix: Newark, NJ, Cory Booker, Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Aircraft, Boeing 787, US News

Denver Post

United's 787 departs again from Denver as fliers readjust

Susan French is a self-proclaimed "nervous flier" who didn't realize she had booked a ticket on one of Boeing's highly publicized 787s until just before she boarded the plane at Denver International Airport on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Aircraft, Boeing 787, Airlines, United Airlines, US News