American Eagle Airlines has announced they are adding a new arriving and departing flight at Tyler Pounds Regional Airport beginning today, Thursday February 14, 2013.
A Department of Transportation rule implemented in April 2010 prohibits airlines from keeping passengers sitting on a tarmac for more than three hours — a rule it says an American Airlines affiliate has since violated so frequently that it’s now been slapped with a $900,000 fine, the first such fine handed down since the edict took effect.