Transportation

Last week, a person scaled the perimeter fence at Chicago Midway airport and gained access to the airport’s tarmac, creating a potential security threat on the secure side of the airport.   

JetBlue began serving Milwaukee's Mitchell International Airport on Sunday, and a transportation expert said he expects more airlines to bring flights to Wisconsin this year and next if the demand exists. 

JetBlue began serving Milwaukee's Mitchell International Airport on Sunday, and a transportation expert said he expects more airlines to bring flights to Wisconsin this year and next if the demand exists. 

Every business has been affected by the pandemic, but few industries have been as thoroughly disrupted as air travel. As Covid-19 has waxed and waned, airlines have suffered thousands of canceled flights, plummeting ticket prices, and a federal mask mandate that catalyzed a wave of violent incidents on planes.

For more than a year, a mask has been as essential at the airport as a boarding pass: you can’t fly without one. But the federal mask mandate for planes, trains, buses, and transit stations including airports is set to expire on March 18, and so far, the government has not announced plans to extend it.

The daily number of COVID-19 cases reported in the nation has surged over the past two weeks, now surpassing 1 million, with 95% of them from the omicron variant. At such a rate, every week, over 2% of the entire population becomes infected. 

A new study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign identifies the optimal conditions to reduce the risk of COVID transmission on airplanes.

President Joe Biden’s administration has introduced new COVID-19 vaccination requirements for travelers into the United States. Mandated vaccination with an approved set of vaccines remains the easiest pathway into the country, with those who are vaccine-exempt subject to more severe testing requirements.

The Transportation Security Administration announced that it found more firearms in carry-on bags at airport security checkpoints through the first nine months of 2021 than it had in any full year over the past two decades.

Twenty years ago this week, airplanes were used as weapons to topple the twin towers.