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On Wednesday, January 11, 2023, the FAA temporarily ordered the grounding of all domestic flights in the United States.

Syracuse Hancock International Airport just announced their new partnership with Breeze Airways for regular, non-stop trips to two major U.S. cities.

Who in their right mind would put an airplane runway right near a beach? Apparently someone in Northern Germany. A man who was sunbathing on that same beach, was nearly killed when a plane that was coming in for a landing almost came up short of the strip. The man escaped with no injuries, but a fence post behind him wasn't so lucky.

It was a terrifying scenario. Two sky diving planes collided in mid-air sending one out of control and the other damaged but flyable. The nine sky divers aboard the planes and the pilot of the out of control aircraft all survived, miraculously, by deploying their parachutes.

Whenever you travel by plane you know you are going to have to sit through one of those dull--yet very important--flight safety video presentations . Some airlines have taken the step of producing clever, attention grabbing (they hope) videos to help pass along the information. Virgin America has a hot new one that should do the trick.

If you've done any cross-country or international air travel, landing in different time zones can wreak havoc with your sleep cycle. Now, Delta Airlines has a new "Photon Shower" that it claims can help cure jet leg.

Leslie Nielsen, who starred in Airplane and the Naked Gun movies has passed away.  He died yesterday of complications of pneumonia at age 84.  He'd been in the hospital for almost 2 weeks and had his family at his side when he passed. He's a fellow Canadian who lived in Saskatchewan until his 20's.  He moved to New York and began acting in 1950.  But it wasn't until the 1980's when he starred in t