More than seven years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, federal officials are closing a huge gap in commercial aviation security by screening all cargo carried in the bellies of narrow-body passenger airliners. ...more

November 12, 2008

The Transportation Security Administration has begun to screen all cargo carried in the bellies of narrow-body aircraft, including flights at Tampa International Airport and St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport, a TSA spokesman said today. ...more

November 11, 2008

Tampa International continued to rank among the nation's best major airports in flight performance, ranking seventh nationwide in September with 90 percent of flights leaving within 15 minutes of schedule, a U.S. Department of Transportation report released today said. ...more

November 7, 2008

Airlines have been seeking new sources fuel to cut costs for some time, but leave it to fun-loving Southwest Airlines to test the power of pixie dust. ...more

November 1, 2008

The makers of a controversial documentary about Islam are spending millions of dollars to distribute their film on DVD as a paid advertisement in newspapers across the country, including today's Tampa Tribune. ...more

September 21, 2008

Three men were convicted Monday of conspiracy to murder in a terrorist bombing campaign, but the jury could not reach a verdict on allegations they plotted to use liquid explosives to down trans-Atlantic airliners. ...more

September 9, 2008

"U.S.A." was emblazoned on the front and the back of the red baseball hat worn by Stanford Wright as he clutched an American flag in his right hand and held his left hand over his heart. ...more

September 8, 2008

The pilots union for US Airways said Wednesday that the airline is pressuring pilots to use less fuel than they think is safe in order to save money. ...more

July 17, 2008

TAMPA Grab a seat on Kate Hanni's airliner, and you'll wish you hadn't. Ask congressmen who tried it out in Washington, D.C., last year. ...more

January 20, 2008

Undercover investigators carried all the bomb components needed to cause "severe damage" to airliners and passengers through U.S. airport screening checkpoints several times this year, despite security measures adopted in August 2006 to stop such explosive devices, according to a new government report. ...more

November 15, 2007