Airplanes line up at Los Angeles International Airport on June 20, 2001 in California. File photo by David McNew/via Getty Images WASHINGTON — Air travel in the United States has become a com...
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Watch Video JUDY WOODRUFF: President Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin have been on the phone again, and they agreed to step up diplomacy in Syria. The two men spoke today for the ...
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New Yorker staff writer Amy Davidson and Sean Rameswaram , a producer for WNYC’s More Perfect podcast, talk about whether the public outrage around headlines concerning United Airlines, Pepsi,...
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CLICK ON THE 'LISTEN' BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS INTERVIEW. The cellphone videos (below) and response to Dr. David Dao's forcible removal from a United Airlines flight on Sunday night has gone...
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Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: But first: The international uproar continued over the forced removal of a passenger from a United Airlines flight. Today, the airline’s C...
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United Airlines planes sit on the tarmac at San Francisco International Airport on July 8, 2015 in San Francisco, California. The government fined United Airlines $2.7 million Thursday for violat...
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A therapy dog wears a nurse Halloween costume as part of a program to de-stress passengers at the international boarding gate area of Los Angeles airport in Los Angeles, California, United State...
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Just six weeks ago, United Airlines pushed its CEO, Jeff Smisek, out the hatch with a golden parachute as a result of a federal probe into United's relationship with the Port Authority of New Yor...
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And then there was one. Four years ago, seven people sat down to dinner at Novita Italian restaurant in Manhattan. A federal probe is now examining whether that meal was the start of a bribery ...
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The Port Authority kept secret four meetings between Gov. Chris Christie’s former top staffer at the bi-state agency and representatives of United Airlines when it initially made his calendars ...
Jamie Fox. Christie cabinet member, former United Airlines lobbyist, long-time New Jersey political operative. Oh, and a guy with connections to both the Bridgegate and the Chairman's Flight sc...
Desperate to draw visitors to Atlantic City, New Jersey officials gave United Airlines more than $100,000 in incentives to fly to the seaside resort for at least a year. Then, when United abruptl...
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The scrapheap of officials laid to waste by Bridgegate and its spin-off scandals expanded last week to include three United Airlines executives. United says the resignations are related to the ...
Andrea Bernstein , senior editor for politics and policy for WNYC News, talks about the latest wrinkle in the "bridgegate" scandal -- the resignation of three United Airlines executives during...
It began with a fancy Italian dinner Sept. 13, 2011. Now, amidst a wide-ranging federal probe, six of the seven people who ate at Novita that evening are out of a job, including three top United ...
It's hard to pinpoint exactly why Governor Christie’s presidential campaign hasn’t caught fire. But his decline in the polls started with a traffic jam back on September 9th, 2013. Two year...
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Bloomberg News editor Michael Regan talks about the breakdowns with computer systems that grounded United's planes and halted trading on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday morning. > .@NY...
An hour and a half into a Friday night town hall meeting at Fury’s Publick House in Dover, New Hampshire, when reporters had already started to pack up their gear, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christi...
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Do scandals linger longer in the public memory when they have great nicknames? If so, this one isn't going anywhere. “The Chairman’s Flight" was the sparsely-traveled United Airlines flight...
Houston Mayor Annise Parker (Houston, TX — Gail Delaughter, KUHF ) The nation's fourth-largest city will have a second international airport, now that the city council has approved pla...
(photo: MichaelB in Houston via flickr/creative commons) Remember Freddie Laker ? Sorry to tell you some of us at Transportation Nation do. At least one of us flew New York to London for so...
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Hobby Airport in Houston. Photo by Gail Delaughter/KUHF (Houston, TX -- Gail Delaughter, KUHF ) Houston City Council staffers had to set up spillover rooms for hundreds of airline employe...
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(Houston, TX -- Gail Delaughter, KUHF ) Work is about to start on the first phase of a billion-dollar redevelopment project at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport. The Houston ...
The Department of Transportation levied heavy fines against airlines that leave passengers waiting on the tarmac for more than three hours, which led to a decrease in long tarmac delays -- but i...
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