“Air travel disruptions” on The Daily Caller

DALLAS (AP) — A fresh snow storm in north Texas on Friday threatened to leave fans traveling to the Super Bowl stranded far from Sunday night’s big game. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A band of frigid weather snaking its way up the East Coast on Sunday threatened to bring blizzards and a foot of snow to New York City and New England, while several states to the South made emergency declarations as the storm caused crashes on slick roads. (more)

PARIS (AP) — Workers opposed to a higher retirement age blocked roads to airports around France on Wednesday, leaving passengers in Paris dragging suitcases on foot along an emergency breakdown lane. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Kathryn Calley got an unpleasant surprise when she decided to cancel her Florida beach vacation because of the oil spill. She was told her travel insurance would not cover her airfare. (more)

BRUSSELS — The Icelandic volcano with the unpronounceable name reminded the world again that it has the power to disrupt international travel — coughing out a spreading cloud of ash that delayed or canceled hundreds of flights between Europe and North America. (more)

BERLIN (AP) — Airlines lost at least $1.7 billion in revenue during the volcanic ash crisis, an industry group said Wednesday as the debate heated up over whether European governments were justified in shutting down their airspace for so long. (more)

SYDNEY (AP) — Several thousand air passengers were stranded in Asia for a second day Saturday as flights were grounded because of a massive cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano that paralyzed European airports. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — The man returning from Haiti who walked through a restricted door and set off an alarm at John F. Kennedy Airport has told police he went through the door by mistake. (more)

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Investigators were trying to determine why part of a United Airlines jetliner’s landing gear failed to deploy, forcing terrified passengers to crouch in their seats and brace for a crash before the pilot touched down safely despite scraping the jet’s belly on the runway. (more)

CLEVELAND (AP) — A power outage at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport has canceled several flights as electric crews investigate what caused the early morning failure. (more)

BERLIN (AP) — A plane slid off an icy runway and powerful winds and heavy snow forced hundreds of flight cancellations across Europe on Saturday as blasts of freezing cold buffeted Britain and Germany. (more)

A look at the on-time arrival rates in November for 19 airlines that are required to report figures to the U.S. Transportation Department. The list ranks the airlines for November and lists each carrier’s rank in October in parentheses and then its on-time percentage in November. (more)

DALLAS (AP) — The government says the nation’s airlines set records for arriving on time in November. (more)

DES MOINES (AP) — Snow was piled so high in Iowa that drivers couldn’t see across intersections and a North Dakota snowblower repair shop was overwhelmed with business as residents braced Thursday for heavy snow and wind chills as low as 52 below zero. (more)

LONDON (AP) — Unusually heavy snowfall stranded hundreds of motorists, disrupted trains and shut down schools and airports across Britain on Wednesday as the country suffered through its longest cold snap in nearly 30 years. (more)

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Federal officials suspended flights Tuesday to and from a California airport after a bag tested positive for traces of an explosive. (more)

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A man who breached security controls at Newark Liberty International Airport, resulting in major delays and grounding flights for six hours, left a terminal about 20 minutes after he entered the wrong way through a security checkpoint, the Transportation Security Administration said Monday. (more)