Frontier Airlines and Silver Airways are dropping air service to Cuba , saying other airlines are adding too many flights to the island nation and making the routes unprofitable. U.S. airlines rushed to begin flights to Cuba last year after the Obama administration allowed commercial service for the first time in more than half a century.
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N.J. JetBlue flight makes emergency landing after bomb threat
A bomb threat caused a New Jersey flight to the Dominican Republic to make an emergency landing in Florida Saturday, authorities said. JetBlue flight 893 left Newark International Airport at about 1 p.m., and was rerouted to Fort Lauderdale “out of an abundance of caution,” airline officials said.
Flight from Newark diverted to Florida after ‘security report,” airline says
NEWARK — A JetBlue flight from Newark Liberty International Airport bound for the Dominican Republic was diverted to Fort Lauderdale after an unspecified security concern Saturday afternoon, according to officials. “Out of an abundance of caution, JetBlue flight 893 from Newark Liberty International Airport to Santiago, Dominican Republic, is diverting to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after a security report,” the airline said in a statement.
U.S. veteran under arrest after five killed, eight wounded in airport shooting
Canadian government officials were trying to determine whether any Canadians were among the casualties of a mass shooting Friday in the baggage area of the airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The office of Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion said it had no immediate information about Canadian citizens being among the five people reported dead or eight injured after a gunman opened fire.