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Passengers on international flights face pat-down searches, new limits on carry-on luggage and more thorough screening at airport checkpoints.

Travelers taking international flights to the United States on Saturday faced pat-down searches, new limits on carry-on luggage and more thorough screening at airport checkpoints after a Nigerian man allegedly tried to bomb a jetliner headed to Detroit.

There is no initial evidence that the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet was involved in a larger plot, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday.

Officials at Reagan National Airport are evacuating part of a terminal and are closing a baggage claim area after a problem ...

A fierce storm dumps more snow and ice across the nation's midsection after stranding travelers as highways and airports close, leaving many to celebrate Christmas just where they are.

Airlines are scrambling to accommodate passengers affected by the cancellation of hundreds of flights after a monster weekend winter storm blanketed a swath of the East Coast.

The Transportation Department is ordering airlines to let passengers stuck in stranded planes exit after three hours.

A United Airlines pilot has been charged after being arrested at London's Heathrow Airport on suspicion of being drunk shortly before he was about to fly a transatlantic airliner, police said on Wednesday.

The FAA has launched an investigation into why two Northwest Airlines pilots failed to make radio contact with ground controllers for more than an hour and overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles ...

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Two minutes after he cleared a private plane for takeoff and a fateful flight over the Hudson River, an air traffic controller at a New Jersey airport was on the phone with a woman in the airport operations office, joking about barbecuing a dead cat.