Tag: ground
NEWS Oct 09, 2026 Delta Passenger Arrested After Allegedly Stealing Airport Tug A Delta Air Lines passenger faces charges after allegedly stealing a ground service tug at a California airport and driving it onto a runway. Read More →
ROUTES Oct 06, 2026 American Airlines Swaps Landline Buses for CRJ-700 Flights on 84-Mile South Bend to Chicago Route American Airlines replaces its South Bend to Chicago Landline bus service with CRJ-700 regional jet flights starting today, cutting travel to 84 miles by air. Read More →
NEWS Sep 04, 2026 Air China Boeing 747-8 Returns to Service Following JFK Refueling Truck Incident An Air China Boeing 747-8 has resumed operations after a refueling truck damaged its fueling ports at New York's JFK airport, causing a lengthy grounding. Read More →
NEWS Jul 16, 2026 Shuttle Bus Manager Sues Atlanta Hartsfield After Stabbing by Homeless Man Who Allegedly Should Not Have Been on Airport Grounds A shuttle bus manager stabbed by a homeless man at Atlanta Hartsfield has sued the airport, alleging security failures allowed the attacker on site. Read More →
NEWS Jun 30, 2026 Passengers Threatened With Arrest: Hundreds Stranded at Orlando International Airport After Baggage Delays Roughly 800 Virgin Atlantic passengers waited more than five hours for checked baggage at Orlando International Airport, with arrest threats issued. Read More →
NEWS Jun 18, 2026 Severe Thunderstorms Delay Hundreds of Flights at Chicago O'Hare A weather-related ground stop at Chicago O'Hare International Airport disrupted travel for thousands, causing roughly 700 flight delays and dozens of cancellations. Read More →
NEWS Jun 12, 2026 Turkish Airlines Boeing 777 Strikes Radar Mast at Antalya Airport: Mast Pierces Cabin, Passengers Evacuated A Turkish Airlines Boeing 777-300ER sustained significant structural damage after its right wing struck a ground radar mast while taxiing at Antalya Airport on June 11, with the toppled structure piercing the aircraft's fuselage and triggering a full passenger evacuation. Read More →
NEWS Jun 01, 2026 Boeing 787 Dreamliner Loses Door at Remote Pacific Airport, Puzzling Engineers A Boeing 787 Dreamliner had a door detach at a remote Pacific airport, leaving engineers searching for answers about the cause. Read More →
NEWS May 26, 2026 easyJet and Amsterdam Schiphol Have Switched Off Aircraft Engines During Taxiing, and the Fuel Savings Are Already Measurable Every time a commercial aircraft taxis to the runway with its main engines running, it burns through thousands of pounds of jet fuel before it has carried a single passenger a single metre into the sky. At Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, one of Europe's busiest and most spread-out airports, that invisible cost has long accounted for a significant share of each flight's total emissions. As of today, easyJet and Schiphol have taken a concrete step to address it. Read More →
NEWS May 20, 2026 A Sinkhole Has Swallowed Part of a LaGuardia Runway Just Days Before Memorial Day, and Hundreds of Flights Are Already Cancelled A sinkhole discovered during a routine airfield inspection at New York's LaGuardia Airport has forced the closure of one of the airport's only two runways, triggering a cascade of cancellations and delays on one of the worst possible days for travel disruption. Read More →