airports

Improvements being done to Lakewood Airport in Ocean County are expected to meet Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requirements so the township can apply to have small jets return within a year.

After years of little activity, Trenton-Mercer Airport in Ewing is now flying high, as the commercial carrier Frontier Airlines continues to expand operations and offer travelers more flights to different cities.

Airlines are generally shutting down their operations this afternoon at the three big New York-area airports, as well as in Boston, Providence and other Northeastern airports.

Those airport scanners with their all-too revealing body images will soon be going away. The Transportation Security Administration says the X-ray scanners will be gone by June because the company that makes them can't fix the privacy issues...

A jet in Pittsburgh got stuck in snow on the tarmac while another one in New York got itself mired in mud.

Strong winds from an advancing winter storm were causing delays at New York City area airports.

Major airlines are scrapping flights in and out of the New York area ahead of the second significant storm in little more than a week. United and American plan to suspend operations in the region this afternoon. Other airlines are encouraging passengers to reschedule by allowing them to do it for free...

Airports and stock exchange reopen; NJ devastated Two major airports reopened and the floor of the New York Stock Exchange came back to life Wednesday, while across the river in New Jersey, National Guardsmen rushed to rescue flood victims and fires still raged two days after Superstorm Sandy.

Amtrak says it has restored train service to Newark Liberty International Airport.

More people in the Metropolitan area are traveling by air these days.  Air passenger traffic at Newark Liberty, LaGuardia and JFK airports was up 10.2 percent in August compared to the same month last year, reaching 10.8 million passengers and breaking a five year record for the busiest month ever for the Port Authority's airport system.