US Airways increases bid for Delta
US Airways increases bid for Delta — US Airways Group Inc. raised its offer for Delta Air Lines Inc. by almost 20 percent to $10.4 billion on Wednesday, as it seeks to put pressure on the bankrupt carrier’s creditors to agree to a deal that Delta’s management opposes. (AP)
For airport screeners, more training about Muslims — During the next few weeks, as many as 20,000 American Muslims will be returning to the United States from their pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. The TSA has ramped up cultural-awareness training for all 43,000 of its screeners. (The Christian Science Monitor)
Coming to an airport checkpoint near you: ads in security bins — The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will allow companies to sell ads inside plastic bins whose sole purpose so far has been to move passengers’ shoes, cellphones and other belongings through X-ray machines. (USA Today)
Fans flood Phoenix airport, but TSA is ready — On a day when the passenger level may have reached an all-time high at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, people wearing red Ohio State sweatshirts and sour expressions stood next to euphoric University of Florida fans wearing alligators on their heads. They were bound together by a common exhaustion and a long, long line as they waited to go through security in Terminal 4 on Tuesday. (The Arizona Republic)
Katrina exhibit at WTC site — In a juxtaposition of two disasters, an exhibit of dresser drawers salvaged from flooded New Orleans has opened at a pedestrian bridge that overlooks the World Trade Center site. (AP)
Oil prices fall as inventories swell — Oil prices fell Wednesday after the government reported swelling inventories of gasoline, heating oil and diesel fuel. (AP)
Scorpion on a plane – passenger gets pantful of pain — A scorpion stung David Sullivan on the back of his right leg, just below the knee, then crawled up and down his left leg, he thinks, before getting him again in the shin. Not what he was expecting on his flight home from Chicago to Vermont. (AP)
Zagat releases first post-Katrina survey of New Orleans — There are fewer restaurants, hotels and tourist attractions, but there’s still much to love about New Orleans, a leading surveyor of leisure and entertainment providers nationwide says. (AP)
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