The US Federal Aviation Administration will furlough nearly 4,000 workers as of midnight Friday night/Saturday morning as a reauthorization bill expires without a needed extension from Congress.
JetBlue on Wednesday launched flights to two new Latin American cities from their hub at New York's JFK International Airport: Liberia, Costa Rica and La Romana, Dominican Republic.
Chechen Islamist rebel leader Dokka Umarov on Tuesday claimed responsibility for ordering a suicide bombing that killed 36 people and injured hundreds more at Moscow's busiest airport in January.