Nashville International Airport will be renamed after the late Dolly Parton after its board unanimously voted to change the name. The Metro Nashville Airport Authority board voted 6-0 on Friday to begin the process and said a final name has not been chosen. “We are working closely with the appropriate parties to thoughtfully determine how…
The Transportation Security Administration is actively considering allowing TSA PreCheck passengers to bring water bottles through security checkpoints at a select number of airports in the coming months, senior administration officials told CBS News on Wednesday. The potential change would be rolled out initially to airports equipped with newer CT screening technology and automated detection…
For decades, the airport security checkpoint has marked the end of the road for friends and relatives seeing off a traveler. That is changing for some travelers. The Transportation Security Administration has launched a new program at some U.S. airports allowing eligible TSA PreCheck members without plane tickets to pass through security and enter the…
At least five people were killed and five others were injured when an Amazon cargo plane overran a runway at Miami International Airport and struck several vehicles Sunday, officials said. The crash prompted a roughly 3-hour ground stop at the airport as emergency crews responded to the scene. The Prime Air plane, which was being operated by…
One of the most affecting stories to come from the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 – one that instills a faith in humanity in spite of the horrifying events of that day – was about the generosity of the residents of a small Canadian town towards several thousand stranded, anxious travelers. In the wake…
Truck drivers facing all-time-high diesel prices amid Iran war – CBS News Watch CBS News American truck drivers and travelers are struggling to fill up their tanks amid higher gas and diesel prices linked to the Iran war. Ali Bauman has more. Source link
5m ago Diesel hits an all-time high as U.S. gas prices surge ahead of Labor Day weekend U.S. gas prices surged ahead of Labor Day weekend, with diesel hitting a record of $5.85 a gallon Friday, eclipsing its prior mark of $5.81, set in June 2022. The AAA has predicted that travelers will face…
Gasoline prices are surging ahead of Labor Day, with AAA predicting travelers will face the highest pump prices on record for the holiday weekend amid ongoing conflict in the Strait of Hormuz. The national average for regular gasoline reached $4.14 a gallon Thursday, up 4 cents from a week earlier, according to AAA data. Diesel averaged…
Nashville International Airport would be renamed for Dolly Parton under a proposal announced Friday by Tennessee’s governor. Gov. Bill Lee proposed the name change just days after the country music icon died Tuesday of cancer at age 80. “At a place where Tennessee welcomes the world, it is fitting that Nashville International Airport would bear…
Two workers at Germany’s Frankfurt airport who caught malaria from a mosquito thought to have arrived on a plane have died, the city’s health authority said this week. Airport officials had earlier said one employee had perished, with six workers infected. The Robert Koch Institute said an imported Anopheles mosquito carried over by an aircraft…
