St. Louis Lambert International Airport

The omicron COVID-19 variant put a damper on travel early in 2022, but that didn’t last for the rest of the year.

Business leaders, immigration activists and Missouri politicians are urging the federal government to issue visas to 380 more refugees who fled Afghanistan in 2021 and are now stranded in Albania, a small country on the Balkan Peninsula. The first members of the group arrived in St. Louis on Monday, but hundreds more are waiting on the U.S. government to issue them visas.

Some business leaders in the St. Louis region have seen this success, and now their sights are set on replicating it with a nonstop route to South America.

Business and civic leaders hail nonstop service between St. Louis and Germany.

A city-appointed group assembled to evaluate proposals to privatize St. Louis' airport held hours of closed-door meetings involving topics that should have been discussed publicly, according to an attorney who disclosed newly released recordings and documents.

Officials at St. Louis Lambert International Airport are considering a plan that would build a new, single terminal to replace the airport’s two existing ones. Lambert officials are expected to submit the plan to the Federal Aviation Administration this year.

Lufthansa will begin operating nonstop flights to Frankfurt, Germany, next year.

The space in Terminal One is meant to make it easier for travelers to get a Real ID-compliant license.

The budget airline will begin offering nonstop flights out of St. Louis starting at the end of May.

Executives blame slow vaccine rollout and international travel restrictions for slowing down demand. Plus, federal payroll support for airline workers expires in early April.