State Police report protesters demanding a $15 minimum wage at Logan Airport were allowed to protest and listen to a few speeches, then, when told to disperse, six refused and were arrested.
Those arrested on a trespassing charge: Michael G. Gallagher, 67, of Boston, Marvin A. Martin, 61, of Dorchester, Mary D. Lombos, 41, of Roxbury, Jacqueline Wesley, 51, of Roxbury, Yusuf Farah, 57, of Cambridge and Roxana L. Rivera, 46, of Warwick, RI.
Innocent, etc.
Tamas K-L captured a plane kicking up some snow as it took off towards Deer Island this afternoon.
Kosta wishes he were a roving UHub photographer, but this morning he's an immobile UHub photographer at Logan. He filed this photo of a de-icing crew around 10 a.m. from the plane he's been sitting in since 5 a.m.
MadTy took a moment to appreciate the sunrise over Dorchester Bay this morning.
Tim Smith did the same at Logan Airport: Read more.
A company that services airplanes at Logan Airport charges TACV, the Cape Verdean airline that shifted from Logan to TF Green this summer, still owes it $103,000 and change. Read more.
Dan Santry reports a ground crew at Logan gave a retiring JetBlue pilot making his last run out of Boston yesterday a water-cannon salute.
A correspondent seeks suggestions:
We are going to be going out of town for several days, flying out of Boston VERY early on Christmas day. I would love to know whether there is any likelihood that remote parking spaces might be available. And, assuming it is not, what transportation company is most likely to reliably get us to the airport by 5:30 in the morning - at an expense that does not approach the cost of air travel to Chicago.
FAA officials spent 3 1/2 hours listening to residents and elected officials rip into the way planes now fly over a host of communities, at a Milton meeting on Thursday that they agreed to attend only after US Rep. Stephen Lynch threatened to cut the agency's budget for community outreach by $25 million.
The meeting brought out several hundred people from Belmont to Hull, to complain that a new GPS-based flight-path system may be great for airline profits and schedules, but means unlucky residents are now subjected to endless waves of planes, often starting at 5 a.m., for days on end, because of the way it slots planes into very narrow air corridors. Residents also said planes are flying lower than they used to, further contributing to the noise. Read more.
UPDATED, 5:10 p.m.
State Police report a drunken woman, not an ISIS Death Squad Killer, tried opening an exit door on an incoming British Airways jet this afternoon, leading the plane crew to strap her down until the plane could land and she could be taken away to face a little Massachusetts justice in a courtroom at East Boston Municipal Court tomorrow morning. Read more.
Proposed layout of Terminal E expansion, to be done in two phases.
With international travel through Logan Airport really taking off, Massport is planning additions to Terminal E that would include new gates, an expanded Customs area and a covered pedestrian walkway to the Airport T station.
In an environmental notification form filed with the state last month, Massport says the expansion will served a growing international travel market that it says will reach 6 million passengers a year in 2022, compared to 4.9 million in 2014. Read more.
Rather big police presence at Castle Island around 10 a.m. - including a State Police helicopter - looking for whoever thought it was a good idea to use the peninsula right across the harbor from Logan to fly some drones. It's what the FAA likes to think of as "restricted airspace."
US Rep. Stephen Lynch says he's holding a forum in Milton next month on complaints about flight paths south of Logan Airport and the growing number of complaints by residents from the South End to Milton. Read more.
A Dominican woman pleaded guilty today to a drug-smuggling charge in federal court - admitting she used the batteries of her motorized wheelchair to try to smuggle nearly five kilograms of cocaine through Logan Airport. Read more.
Tamas K-L watched a plane on its final approach to Logan during yesterday's unusual sunset.
A San Jose, CA, man spent the night at a State Police barracks after, State Police say, Zeva the Belgian Malinois drug dog sniffed what turned out to be roughly 100 pounds of marijuana in his luggage. Read more.
Massport is conducting "a large-scale emergency drill" at Logan Airport between 8:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. today, so don't get alarmed if you see fire, smoke and lots of firetrucks and emergency vehicles with flashing lights.
A Dominican living in Virginia was arraigned today on charges she tried bringing some five pounds of cocaine in her suitcase lining through customs at Logan Airport earlier this summer - while on a trip with her 5-year-old son. Read more.
John Gage watched the sun go down behind the Logan Airport control tower.
John Marotta got a bird's eye view of a Delta Connection Endeavor CRJ900 at sunset at Logan yesterday.
Copyright John Marotta. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
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