At LAX, Uber Drivers Wait. And Wait. And Wait.

At LAX, Uber Drivers Wait. And Wait. And Wait.

Before the sun could rise over Los Angeles International Airport on a recent Tuesday, hundreds of Uber and Lyft drivers had formed a queue nearby, stretching around the block. It was 5 a.m., and the waiting game was about to begin. In a few minutes, the line of cars would …

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How Lost Radar and Silent Radios Have Upended Newark Air Travel

How Lost Radar and Silent Radios Have Upended Newark Air Travel

On a recent afternoon in Philadelphia, an air traffic controller began shouting that he had lost his radar feed for planes flying in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport. Some of his colleagues still had radar but their radios went dead, prompting frantic calls to their counterparts in New …

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Jeju Air Disaster Prompts a Reckoning Over Runway Safety

Jeju Air Disaster Prompts a Reckoning Over Runway Safety

Jeju Air Flight 2216 did not have to end in such a catastrophe. Early on Dec. 29, a clear Sunday morning, the Boeing 737-800 made an emergency landing on its belly at South Korea’s Muan International Airport. The aircraft skidded past the end of the runway, smashed into a concrete …

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Single Travelers Are Finding Love in Airport Lounges

Single Travelers Are Finding Love in Airport Lounges

Brittany Romano, 32, was not looking to start her own long-distance rom-com last September when she showed up to JetBlue’s lounge at Kennedy International Airport 10 minutes before her flight was set to board — but she did. That’s where she met Matt Harrington, 35, a schoolteacher from Pasadena, Calif. …

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Flights Resume at Heathrow After Substation Fire Shut Down Airport

Flights Resume at Heathrow After Substation Fire Shut Down Airport

Heathrow Airport in London was plunged into chaos after a fire at an electrical substation shut down operations at one of Europe’s busiest air hubs, forcing the airport to cancel or divert more than 1,000 flights on Friday and removing a global linchpin of air travel. Heathrow’s chief executive, Thomas …

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What Caused the Fire That Shut Down Heathrow Airport?

What Caused the Fire That Shut Down Heathrow Airport?

Investigators combed through the burned-out remains of a power substation near London’s Heathrow Airport on Friday, seeking the cause of a spectacular blaze that shuttered Europe’s busiest travel hub for much of a day and raised broader questions about Britain’s energy infrastructure. Officials and energy experts said a fault in …

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Emboldened Kremlin Steps Up Efforts to Seize Businesses in Russia

Emboldened Kremlin Steps Up Efforts to Seize Businesses in Russia

After the fall of Communism, Russia ushered in capitalism by selling off billions of dollars in state assets. Now, 30 years later, the Russian government is stepping up a wartime campaign to do the opposite: seizing private businesses, this time in the name of national security. In the last month, …

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