The FAA is deciding whether or not to approve a new class of flying—below your standard economy or coach class—which will sport newly designed saddles with minuscule legroom, making your already atrocious flying experience suck that much more.

What is this country coming to when a child can't direct air traffic at JFK without causing a big todo?

FAA computer glitch is causing massive flight delays, cancellations. Good luck at the airport today.

You know what was a great idea? To send a low-flying plane cruising down the Hudson river this morning, days after a dude was fired for authorizing a similar flight that scared New York.

A government memo shows the Federal Aviation Agency predicted "public concern" over fighter jets flying near downtown Manhattan — and yet demanded that New York officials not explain the planes' terrifying presence.

Oh hey, a 747 just circled around lower Manhattan today, and then some fighter jets showed up. That isn't the sort of thing anyone should've been warned about!

So it turns out Los Angeles skies were not cleared of planes for Britney Spears and her inevitable return to the hospital. The Federal Aviation Administration, which would know about such things, has written in with a correction. Along with website the Superficial, People quoted a source saying authorities would "block off the road and airspace" for Spears' hospital trip but it turns out only local authorities were involved. In other words, our government is almost as ill-prepared for a celebrity breakdown as it is for other mass emergencies and the smart paparazzi can go ahead and buy a Predator drone or Apache gunship or whatever. FAA email to Gawker after the jump.