Airline Industry

WASHINGTON -- Flight attendants, pilots, federal air marshals and even insurance companies are part of a growing backlash to the Transportation Security Administration's new policy allowing passengers to carry small knives and sports equipment like souvenir baseball bats and golf clubs onto planes.

WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration will let people carry small pocketknives onto passenger planes for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, along with golf clubs, hockey sticks and plastic Wiffle Ball-style bats.

OGDEN — Ogden-Hinckley Airport officials hope to add commercial passenger service to the business, but certain security upgrades are required for that.

Officials haven’t signed any agreements with a commercial airline yet, and before they can accept commercial passenger service, the Transportation Security Administration needs them to make room at the airport for TSA security. The TSA needs space for security screenings, a secure passenger waiting area, and break and office space for its personnel so the airport will be compliant with post-9/11 security requirements.

Airline passengers frustrated by inconsistencies in how carriers advertise their fares will get some relief next month when a new federal rule kicks in requiring that all government taxes and fees be included in the stated price.

FORT WORTH, Texas — American Airlines and its parent company are filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as they seek to cut costs and unload massive debt built up by years of high jet fuel prices and labor struggles.

SALT LAKE CITY -- SkyWest Airlines has announced it will cut 170 positions from its Salt Lake City workforce.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Twice a day in the nation's airports, someone does what Tam Nguyen claims happened to him Tuesday at Sacramento International Airport: they show up at a security checkpoint forgetting they have a firearm with them.