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It was business as usual at the checkpoints again this past week.

The regional airport in Allentown, Pa., really wants Southwest Airlines to serve the Lehigh Valley area.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled Friday that the Transportation Security Administration goofed when it didn't go through the usual rulemaking process before putting body scanners in the nation's airports.

There are many international airlines that have first class lounges, but not many who have a whole terminal just for passengers flying first class. Lufthansa’s First Class Terminal in Frankfurt, Germany is as about as exclusive as one can get flying scheduled airline service. 

The Transport Workers Union in New York is not happy about Qatar Airways moving into American Airlines' Terminal 8 at New York's JFK Airport.

The proposed White House budget for FY 2012, issued today, would slash airport grants by $1.1 billion. The cut targets the country's largest hubs, such as D/FW, by eliminating guaranteed funding for large and medium size airports.

AN AIRPORT is a great place to write a blog post. If you're on a long layover or have a long wait for your flight, there's a lot of dead time that can be used to get work done. So that's what Gulliver is doing now. Why do I have so much time? I arrived at the airport way too early. Even the full-body scanners and other enhanced security measures here in Washington don't change the fact that Saturday is a slow travel day. Two hours early for a domestic flight is way, way too much if you're travelling on Saturday. It's probably too much even if you're leaving from LaGaurdia, O'Hare, or some other nightmare airport and planning to check bags—even then, there's a good chance you'll be waiting a while to board.

The Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport had about the same number of passengers pass through its terminals in August as it did in the same month a year ago.

I know… what am I doing talking about a hotel on my airline blog? Well don’t worry, it is totally airline related. While chilling with Delta in Atlanta I stayed at the Renaissance Concourse Atlanta Airport Hotel. Yea, the room was really nice, so was the lobby, but that is not why I am writing about it. It is located right next to the airport (and I mean next to the airport).

The Department of Transportation (DOT) is working with some funny math and concluding that the tarmac delay rule is working. Both Aubrey Cohen with the Seattle PI and Brett Snyder with CrankyFlier.com take a closer look at their math and don’t come to the same conclusions.

IT’S well established that Canadians routinely pay more to fly than Americans and Europeans. One reason is the lack of competition, but another may be the rent the Canadian federal government charges airports, which pass that cost on to the airlines, which in turn pass it to their passengers. Perhaps that’s why so many Canadians regularly fly from American airports.

NOT all airport security adventures end in people getting frustrated and crawling through the X-ray machine. Sometimes, security staff can be quite pleasant.

SmarterTravel.com has named what it considers the scariest airports in the world.