The No Fly List as well as the Selectee List (which ranks lower in threat level than the No Fly List) are both "two much smaller subsets of the Terrorist Watchlist," the FBI notes.

The request for a national no-fly list comes after the Federal Aviation Administration received nearly 6,0000 unruly passenger reports in 2021, with about 4,300 of those relating to mask requirements.

These lists are different than the federal no-fly list maintained by the FBI. This has caused viewers to send WFAA some no-fly list questions. We answer them here.

According to leaked documents obtained by The Intercept, more than 47,000 people were on America’s no-fly list as of August 2013. That number reportedly includes 800 Americans, many of whom don ...

The request to create another no-fly list — this time with unruly passengers — has a lot of people speaking out on both sides, with some telling us they aren’t convinced it would make skies ...

Using the list to abridge civil liberties was a bad idea then, and it's a bad idea now. The no-fly list is a civil liberties nightmare: secretive and nearly impossible to challenge.

A secret government watchlist that traps innocent Americans in a Kafkaesque nightmare was dealt a major blow yesterday. A federal court in Oregon struck down as unconstitutional the government's ...

The no-fly list has grown from 3,400 people to about 6,000 since last December, but it did not contain the name of airline passenger Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, the AP said.

He was removed from the no-fly list after a yearslong legal battle. Lawyers for Fikre argue that he could be placed on the no-fly list again without a fair process to fight the flight ban.

In short, in Judge Trenga's words, "a No Fly List designation transforms a person into a second class citizen, or worse." Judge Trenga echoed — and cited to — the judge's decision in the ACLU's ...

The classified no-fly list was adopted after the hijacked-plane attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, in an effort to prevent suspected terrorists from getting on aircraft or coming to the United States.

The federal no-fly list was created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attack, along with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which is an agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland ...