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  1. Saudi traveler with pressure cooker arrested at Detroit airport

    Federal agents arrested a suspicious traveler with an altered Saudi Arabian passport at Detroit Metro Airport over the weekend after discovering a pressure cooker in his luggage.

    • May. 13, 2013
  2. Green of the road: Airlines, hotels, cars more eco-friendly

    When you travel these days, you're doing so in a more environmentally friendly fashion than you did a decade ago — and you probably can't even tell.

    • May. 13, 2013
  3. A TSA agent checks the luggage of a passenger at Orlando International Airport in 2011. STAN HONDA / AFP via Getty Images

    TSA officers, air marshals file legal warning over knives

    Nine groups of airline workers and travelers filed a legal challenge Monday urging the Transportation Security Administration against allowing passengers to carry small knives on planes.

    • May. 13, 2013
  4. Airline passenger planes are being reported on the same runway with other planes and vehicles hundreds of times more each year, the Transportation Department's inspector general warned. Above, a Continental Airlines jet rolls out to the runway at Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., in a file photo. Karen Bleier / AFP

    Planes on the same runway more often, watchdog warns

    Airline passenger planes are being reported on the same runway with other planes and vehicles — and sometimes narrowly avoiding collisions — hundreds of times more each year, the Transportation Department’s inspector general warned Thursday.

    • May. 13, 2013
  5. In a listserv email Wednesday, an Office of Personnel Management said few benefit officers from around the federal government would have been able to attend the annual conference due to a lack of funds. Staff

    OPM cancels benefits conference

    Tight budgets have forced the Office of Personnel Management to cancel this year's benefits conference.

    • May. 13, 2013
  6. Budget cuts push conferences online

    Decreasing travel budgets are forcing agencies to conduct more meetings and training seminars online.

    • May. 13, 2013
  7. Jets taxi into take-off position as traffic enters and leaves Los Angles International Airport on April 22. Congress is expected to finalize passage of a bill April 25 that would end air-traffic controller furloughs, which have resulted in a plethora of flight delays across the country. David McNew / Getty Images

    Senate approves plan to end FAA furloughs, tower closings

    Congress is poised to end air-traffic-control furloughs that have delayed thousands of flights this week.

    • Apr. 26, 2013
  8. Increasing delays are being reported as air traffic controllers are furloughed at airports across the country. AFP / Getty Images

    Delays stack up in airports: Start the blame game

    How much frustration will build up in the skies before politicians on the ground in Washington do something about flight delays?

    • Apr. 24, 2013
  9. JFK international airport in New York is among those expected to be hardest hit by delays related to the furloughing of air traffic controllers. JFK International Airport

    Fliers on watch for delays from FAA furloughs

    Air travelers were keeping a close eye on airport departure boards Monday, hoping to get a sense of whether the threat of crushing delays from sequester-related budget cuts is real or just political bluster.

    • Apr. 22, 2013
  10. FAA Administrator Michael Huerta testifies before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on Capitol Hill on April 16. Win McNamee / Getty Images

    FAA expects less in savings from closing control towers

    The Federal Aviation Administration is scaling back the amount of savings it expects from closing 149 towers at small airports around the country.

    • Apr. 19, 2013
  11. A rush of international airline travelers is seen arriving at Dulles International Airport in this file photo. Wait times at customs are increasing at airports nationwide due to federal budget cuts, a survey shows. Paul J. Richards / AFP / Getty Images

    Customs lines delayed by hours at some big airports

    Travelers taking off from the nation’s biggest airports aren’t facing longer security lines from federal spending cuts yet, but many of those arriving from overseas are.

    • Apr. 5, 2013
  12. Judge orders GSA to re-evaluate e-travel contract award

    A federal judge has ordered the General Services Administration to re-evaluate bids for its billion-dollar e-travel contract awarded last June.

    • Mar. 28, 2013
  13. GSA cancels two summer conferences

    The General Services Administration is canceling two more major conferences.

    • Mar. 18, 2013
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