✈️ Currently Overseeing Transportation Coverage @ABC . Philly Native. News Nerd. Fmr. Peace Corps Volunteer. Travel Addict. Aviation Enthusiast. ✈️
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WATCH: A Hawker Beechcraft 400A private jet gets hit by a ground service vehicle while taxiing at Milano-Linate Airport.
The incident occurred around 11:19 am this morning at the Italian city airport. There were no injuries reported.
There have been some operational delays due to the incident, which are gradually receding. Two arriving flights were diverted to Orio al Serio airport and Milan Malpensa.
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BREAKING: All American Airlines flights that aren’t currently airborne are grounded nationwide due to an IT outage, according to an FAA advisory.
These are the airports seeing significant TSA security wait times. 90% of TSA workers showed up for work yesterday.
This explanation doesn't add up. When drones enter controlled airspace, planes are immediately rerouted/grounded and this did not happen last night. Pilots were given more than 1.5 hours notice of the closure and were allowed to land and take off during this period.
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BREAKING: The Pima County Sheriff’s Department, with assistance from the FBI, has detained an individual for questioning in connection with the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told ABC News. abcnews.link/dm8fggK
Breaking: American Airlines is offering flight attendants double pay to work Wednesday as the airline struggles with more than 10,000 cancellations from the storm. Pilots are being offered 5 hours of extra pay. AA has cancelled 8% of flights tomorrow and has lost $150-200 million
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Nicolas Maduro is expected to arrive at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay before being transferred to an FBI plane en route to New York, sources tell me, @PierreTABC & @SweeneyABC
BREAKING: The FAA will require airlines to begin cutting flights from these 40
airports starting as early as tomorrow. Airlines will starts cutting 4% of flights per day until they reach 10% per day early next week.
Air traffic controllers across the country are calling in sick tonight. The FAA is limiting the amount of planes in the air. Thousands of flights have been delayed and cancelled. These are the facilities with not enough staff to handle all scheduled flights.
He called United Airlines and then he was scammed out of $17,000
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BREAKING: United Airlines has issued a nationwide ground stop and is holding all departures due to a technology issue.
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The FAA is investigating a close call between two commercial jets that were taking off on parallel runways at San Francisco International Airport. @SweeneyABC reports the details.
JUST IN: The FAA is investigating after a United flight crossed directly in front of a United Express flight seconds after takeoff in San Francisco. The FAA says the United A320 turned without authorization. FR24 says the planes came within 275 ft vertical and 1950 ft horizontal.
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Transportation Sec. Duffy laid out plans on Monday to improve safety at Newark International Airport. @SweeneyABC breaks down the proposed improvements and how that could impact summer travel season.
A rate sight today at Joint Base Andrews. Kamala Harris’ plane taking off before Joe Bidens on their final departures.
