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.

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.

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 ...

Individuals on the no-fly list are prevented from boarding flights that enter or depart the U.S. or that fly over U.S. airspace. A spokesman for the Terrorist Screening Center declined to comment ...

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 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.

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 ...

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.

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 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.

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 ...