In a CBS News exclusive, a pair of Democratic Senators called on the Federal Aviation Administration to study the safety impact of allowing fewer flight attendants on some long-haul flights. CBS News transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave has the latest. Source link
Sens. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin are calling on the Federal Aviation Administration for more answers on airplane evacuation testing and the impact of the reduced number of flight attendants on some long-haul widebody flights. CBS News’ Kris Van Cleave reports. Source link
A pair of Senate Democrats is demanding answers from FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford on airplane evacuation testing that’s nearly two years overdue and his agency’s decision to allow airlines to be able to reduce the number of flight attendants on some long-haul widebody flights. They say their concern is that there may be more emergency … Read more
Katie Crouch says calling her state’s Medicaid agency to get information about her benefits can feel like a series of dead ends. “The first time, it’ll ring interminably. Next time, it’ll go to a voice mail that just hangs up on you,” said the 48-year-old, who lives in Delaware. “Sometimes you’ll get a person who … Read more
With nearly 40% of TSA employees at George Bush Intercontinental Airport calling out as the partial government shutdown drags into a sixth week, Houston has a problem. The security line in Terminal A on Monday turned into a three-floor nightmare stretching into the airport’s underground train system. The wait starts inside the terminal with a … Read more
The shutdown, which began when lawmakers in the Senate failed to reach an agreement to fund DHS, has led TSA agents to call out or quit en mass as they’ve gone without paychecks for weeks. More than 400 TSA agents across the country have quit since the shutdown began. In a separate interview Sunday on … Read more
Air travelers faced hundreds of flight cancellations and thousands of delays on Tuesday in the wake of powerful storms that struck the Midwest and Eastern Seaboard. Many airports also continue to struggle with disruption from reduced staffing at often-jammed security checkpoints amid a partial government shutdown that has lasted more than a month. The partial shutdown … Read more
Roughly 9,000 flights were canceled and 25,000 delayed since Sunday as a winter storm slammed parts of the U.S. It comes amid a TSA staffing shortage, as employees work without pay through the partial government shutdown. Kris Van Cleave reports. Source link
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., is hammering Democrats over the partial government shutdown as its effects begin to hit millions of travelers at airports across the country. “This is expected to be one of the busiest spring travel seasons on record. Over 171 million travelers … Read more
Airline passengers in some of the United States’ largest airports are seeing long security lines amid the ongoing partial government shutdown impacting the Department of Homeland Security. As Kris Van Cleave reports, more TSA employees are calling out sick as they work without pay. Source link