Senators Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer announced that the US Department of Transportation has allocated over $16 million for upgrades at Kennedy and LaGuardia airports.
A US Embassy report released by Wikileaks reveals that an American Airlines crew was briefly detained in 2008 when a crewmember made a joke about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez after landing in Caracas.
The FAA has proposed a fine of almost $1.5 million against Northwest Airlines after if failed to inspect wiring near cockpit windows on some of its aircraft for 17 years.