Sacramento International Airport

In an abrupt about-face, Sacramento County has backed away from a controversial plan to jettison its federal airport screeners and replace them with private security company employees.

With Thanksgiving a day away, gas prices are heading down and the number of Californians traveling is going up.

Sacramento is in the top ten when it comes to least-busy airports this Thanksgiving, according to a national travel company.

The impact of Hurricane Sandy on local business and commerce has been fairly light.

Sacramento International Airport has closed nearly 2,000 spots in its economy parking lot, officials said. That section of the lot had been in temporary use; it is in deteriorated condition and is subject to flooding.

G. Hardy Acree, the executive who preached thinking big while overseeing Sacramento International Airport's $1 billion expansion, has announced his retirement after 13 years as head of the county airport system.

Hardy Acree, the man who oversaw the recent $1 billion Sacramento International Airport expansion, has announced his retirement after 13 years as head of the county's airport system.

On-time arrivals at Sacramento International Airport and other U.S. airports declined in June, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation's latest statistics.

Sacramento International Airport officials have begun $60,000 in safety upgrades on their automated people mover after county building inspectors said the device's emergency walkway is not legal for public use.

Sacramento International is poised to become the third major U.S. airport in the post-Sept. 11 era to employ private security at checkpoints instead of federal agents.

Sacramento County supervisors decided Tuesday to open up the airport taxi business to more than one company, but some companies questioned whether the selection process will be fair.

So, now that they have that nice, airy box at Sacramento International Airport that serves as home to a big red rabbit (sculpture), how about a place for your pooch?

Sacramento International Airport has received an $8 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration to help finance recent expansion, Rep. Doris Matsui announced Thursday.

Sacramento International Airport announced this week it has installed new-generation electric vehicle charging stations on each floor of the parking garage that serves passenger terminals A and B.

Lawrence Argent's "Leap" – the centerpiece sculpture at the Sacramento International Airport best known as the "Red Rabbit" – has garnered a national award.

Sacramento International Airport wants to dump its federal security screeners and replace them with private contractors.

It took Josh Hunter three separate planes, two connections and a two-hour drive to get from Mobile, Ala., to Cincinnati at Easter. When he added it all up, his 720-mile trip had lasted 12 hours – the same it would have taken him to drive.

Sacramento International Airport officials have been given the go-ahead to move forward on a proposal for private development of two midsize hotels on airport property.

Faced with nearly a billion dollars of debt, the recently expanded Sacramento International Airport has launched an aggressive campaign to increase service and raise revenue.

Sacramento International Airport officials said chances were good it would never happen. But it did.

A Montana man suspected of trying to take four loaded handguns onto a flight at Sacramento International Airport last week made his first appearance Monday in federal court in Sacramento.

A 45-year-old man is being held without bail in Sacramento County jail, accused of attempting to take several firearms through a security checkpoint at Sacramento International Airport.

An independent operator, Sandiye Rae shined shoes for 25-plus years at Sacramento International Airport, until the new terminal was built and a large company got the contract.

A passenger security checkpoint in Terminal B at Sacramento International Airport was closed for less than an hour Saturday morning when five people passed through the checkpoint while it was unstaffed.

They're taking down the building where millions of Sacramentans once took off.

We've all been there: flying and frustrated and ready to flip out. But what exactly caused a New Hampshire man to lose his cool at Sacramento International Airport's security checkpoint after he landed Tuesday afternoon still was not clear to authorities by nightfall.

Sacramento airport security lines are now a bit shorter for a few passengers. Sacramento International Airport officials Thursday announced the airport and airlines have opened a "preferred customer" priority line at federal security checkpoints in both terminals.

A computer malfunction caused a two-hour-plus closure of Sacramento International Airport's automated people mover Thursday morning, forcing fliers to make a six-minute trek on an elevated outdoor ramp to and from their planes.

Federal officials spent Wednesday investigating an unusual double-tire blowout on a Southwest Airlines jet at Sacramento International Airport, but said they hadn't come to any firm conclusions about the incident.

Sacramento International Airport officials are reporting smooth sailing so far as holiday travel ramps up.

Sacramento International Airport might get that shiny new hotel after all – maybe even two of them.

For the third time since its launch earlier this month, one of the two automated people mover cars at Sacramento International Airport was shut down for repairs Wednesday evening, causing some passenger delays. But nobody reported missing a flight as a result, airport officials said.

Sacramento International this week became the latest airport to employ new, "non-intrusive" body-scanning machines at security checkpoints – walk-through booths designed to foil terrorists without irking passengers.

Sacramentans have a big new airport terminal. Starting Sunday, they'll pay a bigger parking bill to help finance it.

Sacramento's new $1 billion terminal is bigger and grander than anything our relatively humble airport has offered travelers before.

Sacramento International Airport launched its towering new $1 billion terminal and concourse complex Thursday with only a handful of minor glitches.

Let's face it: For all the cool suitcase sculptures, the food offerings at Sacramento International Airport haven't been too far removed from the typical mall food court.

The big switch is on tonight. Sacramento International Airport will close shop at its original 1967 Terminal B tonight and begin ushering in the first arriving flights at its $1 billion facility next door.

Thousands of people took the drive along Interstate 5 to the new Central Terminal B at Sacramento International Airport on Sunday and oohed and aahed at the open house.

Can a $1 billion airport terminal help Sacramento make a better first impression? Well, it can't hurt.

Some buildings wow from the outside. Frank Gehry's undulating silvery museums come to mind, as do the snow-colored fabric peaks of the Denver airport.

The $1 billion Sacramento International Airport expansion opening Thursday should come with a traveler's warning: This is more than a mere face-lift.

There are 14 new food and beverage outlets and 10 retail shops. Most are in the Concourse B building. Others are on the third floor of Central Terminal B, where meeters and greeters can await arrivals. There's even a newsstand-style store and a coffee outlet in the baggage claim area.

Some well-known Sacramento restaurant operators open shop this week at Sacramento International Airport's new terminal, bringing local flavor to fliers.

Nearly 6,000 Sacramentans are expected to attend two sold-out grand opening parties this weekend for Sacramento International Airport's $1 billion expansion.

It seems miraculous. Even as a deep recession froze construction around the region, Sacramento County pulled off the biggest public works project in local history, a $1 billion airport expansion.

Sacramento business leaders got a sneak preview of the new Sacramento International Airport terminal Thursday night, causing more than a few to declare themselves transported.

When the doors slide open on Sacramento International Airport's $1 billion expansion next month, it will be critical from the first moment that passengers find their way to their planes without confusion or consternation.

The big red rabbit is in town, and it's an eyeful.

Soaring steel beams and curved surfaces of wood and glass define Sacramento's new international airport terminal. Expressed in this vast, light-filled and transparent space is a narrative about the spirit of this land, a flat, richly patterned landscape bordered by two mountain ranges.