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AP Top Travel News At 5:35 p.m. EDT
115K expected at Electric Daisy Carnival in Vegas
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Up to 115,000 ravers are expected each night this weekend for a dusk-to-dawn sensory overload of electronic dance music, partying and mingling at a sprawling racing complex outside Las Vegas....
GAO says airline merger would reduce competition
DALLAS (AP) -- A government review finds that the merger of American Airlines and US Airways would reduce competition on more than 1,600 routes traveled by more than 53 million passengers....
Former TWA Flight 800 investigators want new probe
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) -- Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of New York, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet....
Alaska Airlines clarifies boarding for turboprops
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) -- Passengers will still have to board through security-screened gates when Alaska Airlines switches to turboprop aircraft for flights from Fairbanks to Anchorage, an airline spokesman said....
FBI: Airline passenger said there was a bomb
DENVER (AP) -- A preliminary hearing is scheduled Thursday for a Colorado man accused of telling a flight attendant there was a bomb in his backpack on a flight from Knoxville, Tenn., to Denver....
Man pleads guilty to smuggling snakes on planes
TYLER, Texas (AP) -- Samuel L. Jackson would have been cursing up a storm....
China's Wanda buys luxury yacht maker Sunseeker
BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese property and cinema conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group said Wednesday it is buying British yacht maker Sunseeker and will develop a high-end London hotel, expanding into the luxury market as part of the latest foray abroad by a major Chinese firm....
United 787 heading to Tokyo diverted to Seattle
SEATTLE (AP) -- A Boeing 787 flying from Denver to Tokyo diverted to Seattle because of an oil filter issue, a United Airlines spokeswoman said....
Landing gear collapses as jet lands at OH airport
CINCINNATI (AP) -- Authorities say no injuries were reported when a small private jet's landing gear apparently collapsed after it touched down on a runway at a Cincinnati airport....
Authorities: Unattended campfire caused Calif fire
MARIPOSA, Calif. (AP) -- An unattended campfire near a main route into Yosemite National Park has grown into a more than 2-square-mile blaze that officials said Tuesday has led to the evacuations of 800 homes and 1,500 people....
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