• 2025-10-06

    Coleman A. Young Municipal Gets a Motor City Makeover

    Coleman A. Young Municipal Gets a Motor City Makeover  – Airport Improvement With crumbling infrastructure, cemeteries on three sides and its Airport Layout Plan lying dormant for decades, Coleman A. Young Municipal Airport (DET) in Detroit had pretty much been left for dead. Lately, however, there are promising signs of a resurrection thanks to local
  • 2025-10-03

    Tufts University Researcher Reports High Air Pollution in Hanscom-Area Towns

    Hanscom Field. JENNY STEWART PHOTO This story has been changed to reflect that the air quality study has been published and is available. A recent research project regarding air quality impacts in the four towns that border Hanscom Field found that there is a high concentration of ultrafine particles (UFP) and airborne lead. Neelakshi Hudda
  • 2025-10-02

    Sea-Tac Part 150 Public Workshop 2

    The Port of Seattle has completed noise modeling for the 2027 Part 150 Study and will hold three public workshops to explain the new noise exposure map (which determines sound insulation.) <ul> <li>Tuesday, September 30 – 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM – Parkside Elementary (2104 S 247th Street) in Des Moines</li> <li>Thursday, October 2 – 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM – Seahurst Elementary (14603 14th Ave SW) in Burien</li> <li>Saturday, October 4 – Saturday – 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM – Glacier Middle School (2450 S 142nd Street) in SeaTac</li> <li>October 15 at 6:00 PM (Zoom)</li> </ul>
  • 2025-10-02

    Two Planes Collide on LaGuardia Airport Taxiway

    A plane that was preparing to take off struck a plane that had landed, the authorities said. One flight attendant was injured, and the F.A.A. was investigating. By Francesca Regalado and Mark Walker Oct. 2, 2025 Two regional flights operated by a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines collided on a LaGuardia Airport taxiway on Wednesday evening, injuring one
  • 2025-09-30

    Sea-Tac Part 150 Public Workshops

    The Port of Seattle has completed noise modeling for the 2027 Part 150 Study and will hold three public workshops to explain the new noise exposure map (which determines sound insulation.) <ul> <li>Tuesday, September 30 – 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM – Parkside Elementary (2104 S 247th Street) in Des Moines</li> <li>Thursday, October 2 – 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM – Seahurst Elementary (14603 14th Ave SW) in Burien</li> <li>Saturday, October 4 – Saturday – 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM – Glacier Middle School (2450 S 142nd Street) in SeaTac</li> <li>October 15 at 6:00 PM (Zoom)</li> </ul>
  • 2025-09-29

    How a Seattle immigration leader is reacting to Trump’s agenda

    Asha Heid, 73, and her daughter, Port of Seattle Commissioner Hamdi Mohamed, right, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in July. “I carry her stories and her values in the way that I do my work,” Mohamed said of her mother, who fled civil wars in Somalia to Kenya with her children before immigrating to the United
  • 2025-09-29

    Why Is Your Flight Always Delayed? Blame Government Shutdowns.

    By Binyamin Appelbaum Opinion Writer Sept. 29, 2025 The Federal Aviation Administration doesn’t have enough air traffic controllers to control the nation’s air traffic. It’s a big problem. Airlines have been forced to delay, reschedule or cancel thousands of flights, especially at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. If you’ve flown recently, perhaps you’ve
  • 2025-09-22

    $500,000 in Port Funding Available for Community-led Environmental Improvements

    The Port of Seattle is now accepting applications from community-based organizations for projects that improve the environment in historically underrepresented communities that surround Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) and South King County, extending up to Beacon Hill, Rainier Valley, and the Duwamish Valley. A total of $500,000 is available in this cycle of the South King
  • 2025-09-20

    Revealed: ‘Corporate capture’ of UN aviation body by industry

    Exclusive: Industry delegates outnumbered climate experts by 14 to one at recent ICAO meeting, thinktank says Damian Carrington Environment editor Fri 19 Sep 2025 01.00 EDT The UN aviation organisation has been captured by the industry, a report has concluded, leading to the urgent action required to tackle the sector’s high carbon emissions being blocked. Industry
  • 2025-09-19

    Flights resume after radar and communication outages hit air traffic controllers in Dallas

    By Pete Muntean Alexandra Skores, Aaron Cooper People gather near an American Airlines desk on Friday, September 19, as planes are delayed at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport due to a reported telecommunication outage. Lorenzo Ferrigno/CNN A telecommunication outage caused Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controllers in Dallas to lose radar and some communications Friday afternoon,