Universal Hub - Logan Airport

Five Logan workers now charged with 53 counts in taxi-bribery scheme

adamg — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:56:23 +0000

Five Logan Airport "cab starters" arrested in February were indicted yesterday by a Suffolk County grand jury for allegedly taking bribes from cabbies to move them up in the queue at the airport.

Runners, runners everywhere and not a cab to take

adamg — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:25:43 +0000

Owen Williams was among the hundreds of people in a world-class line for non-existent cabs at one Logan terminal around 1 a.m. today.

"Nice welcome for marathoners," adds Catboston, also in the line.

As if you needed more evidence of how world class we are: Direct flights to Panama start in July

adamg — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:38:58 +0000

Massport CEO Tom Glynn summed it all up today:

Today we welcome a world class airline to a world class city.

Professor pleads guilty to looking at child porn on flight to Boston; gets to fly back home to Utah now

adamg — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:58:56 +0000

A Utah professor today acknowledged he viewed sexually explicit image of little girls as he flew to Boston for a professional conference in 2011, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

In East Boston District Court, Judge Roberto Ronquillo, Jr. gave Grant Smith a 2 1/2-year suspended sentence for possession of child pornography and five years' probation, which he will serve in his native Utah, after registering as a sex offender, the DA's office reports.

Alaska Airlines to begin non-stop service between Boston and San Diego

adamg — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:14:02 +0000

Alaska Airlines? Sure, why not?

Whadaya know: Free Silver Line service from the airport is working

adamg — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:31:55 +0000

CommonWealth reports not only is volume up on the Silver Line into the city - for which Massport says it will eventually pay so riders don't have to - but it's up on the Silver Line to the airport, for which people still have to pay.

Logan employees arrested in cab bribery scheme

adamg — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:39:21 +0000

Five Massport workers were arrested today on charges they took bribes from cab drivers seeking to evade the airport's normal queue for passengers, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, State Police and Massport announced.

Officials say the five "cab starters" let cabbies who slipped them $20 to $40 jump ahead of other drivers - although they add some of the five accepted scratch tickets, cigarettes and other items instead of money:

Long line at Logan

adamg — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 04:45:47 +0000

Citrone photographed the cab line at Terminal C at 10:30 p.m.