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Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL) will add more than 100 flights and 29 destinations at New York’s LaGuardia by mid-2012 as it builds the airport into a domestic hub and seeks to dominate the nation’s busiest aviation market.

Military commanders twice scrambled fighter jets Sunday to escort commercial aircraft to safe landings after receiving reports of suspicious behavior by passengers on each flight. No one was injured, but nerves were certainly rattled as the security concerns came on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Airline officials say flight attendants spotted a mouse in the pantry of a Boeing 757, prompting Nepal Airlines to cancel a Bangkok-bound flight, evacuate passengers and tow the jet to a hanger to hunt for the rodent.

We hear a lot of complaints about security screeners groping airline passengers. But now, a Colorado woman is accused of putting her hands on a TSA agent at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix.

Malaysia Airlines has banned babies in the first-class sections of its Boeing 747-400 jets. It also plans to do the same in its yet-to-be-delivered Airbus A380 superjumbo jets, according to the Australian Business Traveller.