Posts Tagged ‘airports’

U.S. roads and airports BRACE for major Thanksgiving travel chaos as severe weather causes traffic and flight delays

U.S. roads and airports BRACE for major Thanksgiving travel chaos as severe weather causes traffic and flight delays The United States is bracing for major travel chaos this Thanksgiving weekend as severe weather causes thousands of flight delays for the tens of millions of Americans who plan to fly home for the holidays. A massive storm affecting […]

House Republicans: Biden Plan to Turn U.S. Airports into Migrant Camps Poses Major ‘Security Risks’ to Americans

House Republicans are urging President Joe Biden’s Department of Transportation (DOT), Secretary Pete Buttigieg, to reject reported plans that would see United States airports transformed into migrant camps for tens of thousands of illegal aliens. Source

All UK Airports must close within the next 10 years, beef and lamb will be banned, and construction of new buildings will cease in the name of “Climate Change” according to Government Report

BY THE EXPOSÉ ON APRIL 12, 2023 • ( 10 COMMENTS ) A report produced by Oxford University and Imperial College London for the UK Government reveals that all airports will be ordered to close, eating beef and lamb will be made illegal, and construction of new buildings will not be permitted in order to meet the legal commitment of zero emissions […]

Airports Forced To Hire Extra Security To Guard Thousands Of Stranded Bags From Sam Brinton

LAS VEGAS, NV — The Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, NV led the nation in increasing security presence where thousands of bags sat unguarded following mass cancellations for Southwest Airlines. Airport officials have already reported other airports following their lead, citing concerns that the luggage would be stolen by Biden energy official Sam […]

UK airports brought to a halt due to heavy snowfall and foggy conditions

As snow fell heavily around the London area, Stansted Airport was forced to cancel ALL flights due to the wintry conditions. A spokesperson for Gatwick said that delays and cancellations were necessary for health and safety reasons, and to make time to de-ice aircrafts. Travellers at Heathrow and Gatwick also saw over 50 flights being cancelled, […]

Major British Airports Set To Phase Out Liquid Limit In Hand Luggage

New CT scanners using 3D technology are set to be installed in U.K. airports by the summer of 2024, which would allow for the rules to be relaxed. Source

Airports Crammed, Huge Traffic Jams as Thousands of Russians Desperate to Flee the Country

    A wife from Tyumen in Siberia said: ‘I will not let my husband go. I’ll break his both legs. His duty is to raise his children.’ The authorities issued a a special warning issued to potential recruits that they face legal sanctions if they self-harm by breaking arms or legs to avoid the […]

Arbaeen ritual: ten Iranian airports to operate flights to Iraq

TEHRAN—Iran has prepared the required infrastructure to operate flights to Iraq for the religious Arbaeen ritual from 10 airports across the country. The government has implemented other numerous measures to facilitate Iranian pilgrims’ participation in the ceremonies, the government spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi said on Tuesday. Furthermore, he listed a number of such measures as […]

Pilots Picketing at 13 Major Airports Before Busy Labor Day Weekend; Biden’s Speech in Philadelphia | NTD Good Morning

Labor day travels are expected to be the busiest in three years, at a time of staffing shortages and picketing pilots. We speak to an expert to find out how to navigate the air travel mess. A possible assassination attempt is foiled after a man aims a pistol at the Argentinian Vice-President’s head. The suspect […]

Pilots Picketing at 13 Major Airports Before Busy Labor Day Weekend; Biden’s Speech in Philadelphia | NTD Good Morning

Labor day travels are expected to be the busiest in three years, at a time of staffing shortages and picketing pilots. We speak to an expert to find out how to navigate the air travel mess. A possible assassination attempt is foiled after a man aims a pistol at the Argentinian Vice-President’s head. The suspect […]

Pilots Picketing at 13 Major Airports Before Busy Labor Day Weekend; Biden’s Speech in Philadelphia | NTD Good Morning

Labor day travels are expected to be the busiest in three years, at a time of staffing shortages and picketing pilots. We speak to an expert to find out how to navigate the air travel mess. A possible assassination attempt is foiled after a man aims a pistol at the Argentinian Vice-President’s head. The suspect […]

Why is Turkey so Eager to Run Five Afghan Airports?

-for Qatar and then travel to Afghanistan to discuss in detail the operation of Kabul airport, which is considered to be the main hub for receiving humanitarian aid meant for Afghan citizens and providing international flights. Taliban is interested in Ankara’s proposal for an apparent reason: after the US withdrawal and the flight of many […]

Turkey, Qatar to operate 5 airports in Afghanistan

Turkish and Qatari companies have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly operate five airports in Afghanistan, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced yesterday. “A delegation of experts will travel first to Doha and then to Kabul to discuss ways to operate Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport,” Cavusoglu said during a meeting with his Malaysian […]

FNC’s Rivera: GOP Rep. Getting ‘Sexual Pleasure from the Chaos’ at Airports

Tuesday on “The Five,” Fox News host Geraldo Rivera said Rep. Chip Roy (R- TX) was getting ‘”sexual pleasure from the chaos and the disruption” at Southwest Airlines. On pilots balking at the companies coronavirus mandate, co-host Jesse Watters said, “I think this is just the beginning. You will have firefighters, police officers, teachers. you will lose 10% of the reports on […]

German architect Helmut Jahn, designer of airports from Chicago to Bangkok and Berlin’s Sony Center, killed in bike accident

German-born Helmut Jahn, a leading postmodernist architect whose works included convention centers from Doha to Shanghai, and airport projects from Chicago to Bangkok, has died at 81 in a bicycle crash. Jahn was reportedly riding a bike on Saturday afternoon in Campton Hills, Illinois, located about 50 miles west of Chicago, when he was struck […]

COVID Was Excuse For CBP To Install Facial Recognition At 76 Airports

The Federal government is driven to build a comprehensive biometric database on all Americans and has used the Great Panic of 2020 (COVID) to accelerate its efforts, all in the name of making citizen feel safe. ⁃ TN Editor A recent DHS report titled the “CBP Trade and Travel Report” reads like an instruction manual […]

Airspace around one of busiest US airports closed after air traffic controller tests positive for Covid

The Texas airport, which is one of the busiest in the US, closed the airspace briefly on Monday while it cleaned the Terminal Radar Approach Control Facility after a controller was found to have contracted the virus, according to NBC News. The facility handles the air traffic at the airport and others in Texas, according […]

More than 10 million passengers travelled through US airports over Christmas holiday, breaking pandemic record

More than 10 million passengers travelled through US airports in the days surrounding Christmas, breaking a pandemic travel record as health officials warned Americans to stay home for the holidays as Covid-19 hospitalisations surge. Christmas-related air travel surpassed 1 million daily passengers for three consecutive days, between the Friday and Sunday before Christmas. Over 10 […]

Nearly 200 European airports at risk of insolvency due to COVID-19 impact, warns a new report

Nearly 200 airports across Europe are at risk of insolvency due to the collapse in air travel, the European airports’ trade body has warned. A report by Airports Council International (ACI) Europe has estimated that 193 airports on the continent “face insolvency in the coming months if passenger traffic does not start to recover by […]

Airports Begin Testing ‘COVID Passport’ That Will Record Whether Someone Has Been Vaccinated Before Travel

Over six thousand scientists and doctors have signed a petition against coronavirus lockdown measures, urging that those not in the at risk category should be able to get on with their lives as normal, and that lockdown rules in both the US and UK are causing ‘irreparable damage’. Those who have signed include professors from […]

Airports in Iraq’s Kurdistan Autonomous Region generated over $40 million in 2017

nsnbc : The Ministry of Transport and Communications in Iraq’s Kurdistan Autonomous Region (KRG) said the region’s airports generated more than $40.683 million in 2017. […]

15k New Yorkers lose heat, airports close amid ‘very serious storm’

     Thousands of New Yorkers were left in the cold as parts of the city were blanketed under more than a foot of snow. All inbound and outbound flights at JFK and LaGuardia airports were temporarily suspended. Winter Storm Grayson hit New York City hard Thursday, causing more than 6,500 New York City Housing Authority […]

Customs And Border Protection Seeks Biometric ID For All Major U.S. Airports Within 4 Years

By Nicholas West Over the past several months I’ve been covering the rapid acceleration toward mandatory biometric identification at U.S. airports. At the core of this increased push is a U.S. Customs and Border Protection mandate 15 years in the making to integrate government databases for ID verification. As we’ve seen with airlines […]

TSA Plans to Use Face Recognition to Track Americans Through Airports

TSA Plans to Use Face Recognition to Track Americans Through Airports November 13th, 2017 Via: EFF: The “PreCheckâ€� program is billed as a convenient service to allow U.S. travelers to “speed through securityâ€� at airports. However, the latest proposal released by the Transportation Security […]

DHS Wants To Develop Advanced Facial Recognition Technology For Use In Airports and Border Checkpoints

By Aaron Kesel In a move straight out of Minority Report, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to develop advanced facial recognition technology that scans the faces of travelers as they enter and leave the U.S. border on highways, NextGov reported. The DHS has posted a public announcement calling on technology […]

DHS Outlines Mandatory Biometric ID At Airports For Foreign Travel

By Nicholas West What at first seemed like creeping tip-toe incrementalism toward the use of biometric ID for travel is quickly becoming a warp-speed reality. Over the past couple of months I’ve been covering some disturbing developments at national airports that seem to show an acceleration of the plan to use biometric identification in a […]

Armed US immigration Officers to Be Stationed in UK Airports

21st Century Wire says… This latest move by the US is being sold to unwitting British holiday makers and business travelers as a “solution to long immigration queues at US airports.”  Under the new scheme, airlines would be forced foot the bill for US security personnel and their families to live in the UK. They […]

Ukraine govt, banks & airports hit by mass blackmail virus attack

“Our network seems to be down, too, in case you wondered! This picture is on all of the Cabinet computer screens,” the country’s vice prime minister, Pavel Rozenko, posted on Facebook, along with a picture of a computer starting up after an apparent error. “Computers aren’t functioning in the government building,” the Kiev authorities told […]

Facial Recognition Is Coming to U.S. Airports, Fast-Tracked by Trump

Facial Recognition Is Coming to U.S. Airports, Fast-Tracked by Trump June 21st, 2017 Via: The Verge: Soon, it may be hard for visa holders to board an international flight without submitting to a facial geometry scan. Customs and Border Protection began testing facial recognition […]

More Biometric Scanning Is Coming Soon To U.S. Airports

So the government is looking for a way ― probably using facial recognition, but potentially using eye scans or other measures too ― to verify which travelers have left the country by collecting biometric data right before passengers board a flight. This isn’t a new idea: Many countries already use face scans extensively in their airports and train stations, and the U.S. has been […]

Powered by WordPress | Designed by: Premium WordPress Themes | Thanks to Themes Gallery, Bromoney and Wordpress Themes