JFK dispatchers charged in bribery scheme to let cabbies skip the line
There is no freight charge. Queens authorities accuse nine taxi dispatchers at John F. Kennedy Airport of participating in a “reprehensible” scheme in which they took thousands of dollars in bribes from taxi drivers to cut passenger boarding lines. did. The Port Authority began receiving complaints in 2022 that some dispatchers were accepting cash from […]
American Airlines flight from JFK to Madrid diverted to Boston due to cracked windshield
Late Wednesday night, an American Airlines plane from New York to Spain crash-landed in Boston more than two hours after departure with a cracked windshield. Flight 94 departed JFK Airport at 7:28 p.m. and was scheduled to land in Madrid, but Alert 2 was issued at approximately 9:46 p.m. NBC Boston reported. According to Massachusetts […]
Investigators detail how American Airlines jet crossed runway in front of Delta plane in near-miss at JFK
Last year, in New York, the pilot of an American Airlines airliner crossed the wrong runway and took off after the captain was distracted and confused by instructions to take off, and the co-pilot lost track of the plane. The aircraft taxied towards the path of the jetliner. According to documents released Monday. Disaster was […]
Pro-Hamas protesters vow to shut down JFK as cops vow crackdown
A wave of Hamas-loving protesters is scheduled to descend on John F. Kennedy Airport on Saturday, seeking to recreate the havoc they wreaked at the airport on New Year's Day. “Let's flood JFK into Gaza,” says an ad promoting the event, which began circulating online this week. The word “flood” is a direct allusion to […]
On this day in history, January 25, 1961, JFK hosts first live televised presidential press conference
President John F. Kennedy hosted the first-ever live televised presidential news conference on this day, January 25, 1961, ushering in a new era in White House communications. “The fact of the matter is that [at] “When President Kennedy started holding televised news conferences, there were only three or four newspapers in the United States that […]