Va. low-fare carrier launches service to 7 cities

By WTOP Staff
June 5, 2014 | 4:00 AM

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Low-fare airline PEOPLExpress says it has begun selling tickets for flights from Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport to seven destinations.

Service begins June 30 with flights to and from Newark, Boston and Pittsburgh. West Palm Beach will be added on July 15, followed by Atlanta on Aug. 1 and New Orleans and St. Petersburg, Florida, on Aug. 28.

The airline is based at the Newport News/Williamsburg airport. It will fly Boeing 737-400 planes that seat 150 passengers.

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PEOPLExpress: http://www.flypex.com

School bus emergency? Fairfax County students have a plan to handle it

By Heather Gustafson
August 21, 2026 | 10:05 PM

This story is part of WTOP’s 2026 Back to School coverage. The wheels on the bus will soon be going round and round again in Fairfax County, Virginia, and some of its young riders are learning what to do if there’s an emergency on the way to school. The annual Safety Patrol Training Camp, hosted by Fairfax County Public Schools' Office of Transportation Services, combined hands-on exercises with classroom lessons to teach students how to keep calm during emergencies on buses. The training can feel remarkably realistic, with overturned school buses on their side or completely upside down in the middle of the county bus depot. Other buses, right side up, fill with smoke that is water-based but mimics the intensity of a bus overheating.

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