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Akron-Canton airport has busiest January on record

February 18, 2010 The Travel Trolley

Special to The Travel Trolley GREEN, Ohio — Record snow and freezing temperatures haven’t cooled things down at Akron-Canton Airport (CAK), the airport announced. Customers from throughout the region helped CAK sizzle this January. Nearly 107,000 passengers traveled to and from CAK during the month, making it the airport’s busiest January of all time. That figure is up 4 percent compared to 2009 and beats the airport’s previous best January by 4,425 passengers which was

Senators: Legislation would close visa loophole

January 27, 2010 The Travel Trolley

A number of senators are sponsoring legislation they say could have prevented the would-be Christmas Day airplane bomber from boarding an American-bound airplane.

Trying the Christmas Day terrorist is the wrong decision?

January 11, 2010 Todd DeFeo

President Obama and the Justice Department are being criticized over the decision to federally charge a Nigerian national with trying to blow up an airplane on Christmas Day rather than detain him as an enemy combatant.

Terrorist charged in Michigan federal court for Christmas Day bomb plot

January 6, 2010 The Travel Trolley

A grand jury today formally indicted a 23-year-old Nigerian national suspected in the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest Airlines airplane as it neared the Detroit airport. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was indicted on six counts, including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and attempted murder within the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States. If convicted, Abdulmutallab faces life in prison. Federal authorities say Abdulmutallab tried to destroy Northwest Airlines flight 253

‘The system worked’ … ‘the system has failed in a potentially disastrous way’

January 5, 2010 The Travel Trolley

At first glance, it seemed simple enough: The TSA offered up “new security directives” for international flights to the United States.

Failed terror attack means new security measures

December 29, 2009 The Travel Trolley

Travelers are likely to see new airport security measures in the wake of a foiled Christmas Day terror plot.

DOT sets three-hour limit on tarmac delays

December 21, 2009 The Travel Trolley

Airlines can only keep passengers waiting on the tarmac for three hours before it would be required to let them disembark, under a new rule announced today by the Department of Transportation.

Airline on-time performance improves in April

June 11, 2009 The Travel Trolley

U.S. Airlines had more on-time flights in April than they did in March and in April 2008, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Air Travel Consumer Report.