Internet travel company Orbitz release the Insider Index that lists the busiest airports in the U.S. for Thanksgiving 2009. The Index also reveals the least busy airports which may help travelers who have not purchased a ticket yet so they can decide what their best route will be.

AirTran Airways has been offering helpful holiday travel tips for eight years. With surcharges, baggage fees and even a fee for seat reservation, the price of travel is a major stress for travelers. AirTran Airways keeps offering their tips for holiday travel each year in hopes that some of that stress will be reduced.

Here is a nice holiday gift from Google. The company will provide free Wi-Fi at US airports through January 15, 2010.

There is a note on the website of the London City Airport, which informs of the airport closing "due to incident." Skye TV reports crash landing of British Airways plane. Passengers are evacuated. All passengers survived.

Last night at least 38 passengers were injured when the Continental Airlines's plane crashed during the take off. The jet veered off Denver runway and catched fire.

The Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners today awarded a contract to DAB Construction, Inc., of Los Angeles for a portion of the Los AngelesInternationalAirport’s (LAX) Residential Soundproofing Program.

Leading low-cost airlines with a preference for small, inexpensive airports are now the largest airlines in the United States and Europe, according to an MIT expert on airport design and operations, who said that airport planners in major metropolitan areas need to accept this paradigm shift and build flexibility into airport design.

In UK, flights at London Heathrow airport's Terminal Five are subject to delays for the second day running due to chaos at the baggage-handling department. On Thursday, thousands of passengers were stranded, with many of them having to be put up in hotels.

Seven activists from a climate action group were taken into custody Friday afternoon at Malmö Airport.

The airport in Wuhan in the capital of Hubei province reopened on Tuesday after being closed for several days due to heavy snow. But Deng Shengtao's flight to Beijing remained on the cancelled list.

Inbound British Airways passenger jet lands short of runway at London's Heathrow Airport. BA flight 38 from Beijing, China, touched down several hundred meters short of the airport's south runway, close to a perimeter road, with its emergency chutes deployed.