Parking fees to be implemented at Santa Fe Regional Airport

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – New parking fees are coming to the Santa Fe Regional Airport. The city said starting December 1, parking will be free for the first 30 minutes. From there, it will cost $7 a day.

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The city urged travelers to plan accordingly.

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Before taking off, a plane passenger spotted a mechanic working on the wing. Taylor Hilton says it happened on an American Airlines flight from Dallas to John Wayne Airport in California. Hilton says a flight attendant was also concerned and showed the video to the pilot. She says the pilot came on the intercom and informed everyone that some screws were loose and the dismantled part is for aerodynamic purposes and not required to fly safely.

In the days when my husband, daughter and I cruised as a family, we took checked-in luggage – but even then, it was only a single, modest suitcase, which we shared. It was always far less than the other passengers brought onboard, but we still found that we each only wore half the clothes we'd brought.

An American citizen has been found dead at a luxury hotel in Ireland, police said. The unnamed U.S. national - who was in his 60s - was discovered unconscious on a bathroom floor in Ballyfin Demesne Hotel in County Laois, some 65 miles southwest of Dublin, on Tuesday evening and was later pronounced dead, according to a statement from Ireland's national police and security service, Garda Siochana. The Gardaí arrested a U.S. national in his 30's at the hotel in connection to the death and he is currently detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984 at a Garda station in the Eastern Region.

The Federal Aviation Administration has banned U.S. flights to Haiti for 30 days in the wake of Monday's gunfire incidents, according to a Notice to Air Mission issued Tuesday. "U.S. civil aviation operations in the territory and airspace of Haiti below 10,000 feet" will be prohibited, according to the FAA. The move comes after a Spirit Airlines plane flying from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Haiti was diverted after it was struck by gunfire while attempting to land in Port-au-Prince, according to the the Haitian National Office of Civil Aviation.

STORY: Passengers were stranded at an airport in Indonesia's resort island of Bali on Wednesday (November 13) as several international carriers canceled flights due to volcanic eruptions.Jetstar and Qantas said they had stopped flights to the tourist hotspot for safety reasons.Singapore Airlines also said it had canceled a flight on Wednesday from Bali to Singapore due to the eruption.Some passengers, like Phillip Brown from New Zealand, were hoping to get on other flights. "We were meant to fly out this morning and we got information last night saying there is no more flight on JetStar for us to fly out. // I've got to go home for three kids, so hopefully we can catch a flight to get out of here today."Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki first erupted on November 3.It happened in the East Nusa Tenggara province, around 500 miles from Bali.At least nine people died as a result.It has since erupted repeatedly, including multiple times on Tuesday (November 12).The ash column from Mount Lewotobi has reached as high as 6.2 miles.Indonesia has close to 130 active volcanoes and sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire" which is an area of high seismic activity atop various tectonic plates.

Several international airlines canceled flights to and from Indonesia's tourist island of Bali on Wednesday as an ongoing volcanic eruption left travelers stranded at airports. Tourists told The Associated Press that they have been stuck at Bali's airport since Tuesday after their flights were suddenly canceled. "The airline did not provide accommodation, leaving us stranded at this airport," said Charlie Austin from Perth, Australia, who was on vacation in Bali with his family.