A Department of Transportation rule implemented in April 2010 prohibits airlines from keeping passengers sitting on a tarmac for more than three hours — a rule it says an American Airlines affiliate has since violated so frequently that it’s now been slapped with a $900,000 fine, the first such fine handed down since the edict took effect.
A Swiss man returning home from the Dominican Republic was busted by custom officials at the Zurich airport with a whopping 261 endangered Mexican tarantulas, which he had packed into individual plastic bags and stuffed in his luggage.
35 people are dead and about 130 are wounded, officials said, after an explosion ripped through the arrivals hall at Moscow's busiest airport on Monday.
Two suicide bombers were reported to have blown themselves up as people emerged from the international arrivals zone...