Your morning transportation speed-read:

An Ohio couple say they missed their honeymoon flight because they were held by the Transportation Security Administration over contact solution.

A Newark, N.J., flight was delayed when a flight attendant found graffiti in the bathroom of the plane.

Meet Rahm Emanuel's choice to lead the Chicago Department of Transportation.

High-speed rail is all the rage now, but some Amtrak trains in Detroit are going to be moving more slowly.

During President Obama's meeting of his Jobs and Competitiveness Council in swing state North Carolina this week, the Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly suggested building a new air traffic control system could stimulate economic growth.

Kelly, who is a member of Obama's jobs council, told the president that the new system known as "NextGen" could save the airlines 15 percent, which could they could be using for other activities that would stimulate jobs.

"We want to grow, we want to buy more airplanes, but we're not just generating sufficient profits to make those kinds of investments," Kelly said to CNNMoney.

More than 15 million Americans will not have access to public transportation where they live by 2015, a report released Tuesday found.

The Washington, D.C.-based Transportation for America coalition released the findings of its study titled "Aging in Place, Stuck without Options," which ranked metro areas by access to public transit.

The result: 15.5 million seniors over the age of 65 will be unable to access public transportation. Atlanta will have the highest percentage of immobile seniors of any city with a population over 3 million and "poor access" for 90 percent of its elderly population to non-driving transportation options, the report found

Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif., Houston, Detroit and Dallas also ranked high on the list.

Airplane manufacturing company Boeing will likely lose a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board that begins Tuesday in Seattle, a key Republican senator said Tuesday.

The NLRB has filed a legal complaint against Boeing, alleging the company decided to build the facility in South Carolina in retaliation for labor strikes by workers at its Puget Sound plant near Seattle. The proceeding beginning Tuesday, which is expected to last several weeks, is beginning with a motion to dismiss the case by Boeing.

But Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said in a television interview Tuesday that neither he nor the company was optimistic about the hearing on the verge of beginning. 

"Boeing expects to lose the case today," he said on CNBC's Squawk Box. "So that means for next two years, we're going to have de facto law in this country that if you're a manufacturer that does not have a right to work law, you better think twice before you move or expand in a state with a right to work law.

"So where do you go?" he continued. "Mexico."

Your morning transportation speed-read:

A Louisiana airport is displaying posters for movies that have been filmed in the town.

A man was removed from a flight for cursing on a plane.

A disabled man was subjected to a Transportation Security Administration pat-down.

Amtrak has a new operations chief.

On Monday, Sen. Lindsey Graham called on the White House to disavow a legal complaint filed against Boeing

The national passenger rail service, better known as Amtrak, said Monday that rail companies in Europe and Japan said its plans to build high-speed railways in the Northeast were sound.

The foreign opinions, which Amtrak dubbed an "international peer review," comes as Republicans in the House are pushing to plan to privatize rail service in the Northeast.

The chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has frequently referred to Amtrak as a "Soviet-style operation," but the agency said Monday that "leading European and Japanese high-speed rail operators" found Amtrak's assessment that it can gradually get trains up to 220 miles per hour was "sound and reasonable."

"The positive feedback from our experienced colleagues around the world is encouraging and demonstrates that Amtrak's high-speed rail plan is a proper response to meet the region's need for increased transportation capacity and is a viable way forward," Amtrak vice president Al Engel said in a statement.

American airline companies generated $3.4 billion in revenue from baggage fees in 2010, according to statistic released Monday by the Department of Transportation.

The DOT's Bureau of Transportation Statistics said the companies brought it another $2.3 billion in reservation change fees.

Bag fees, which have drawn the ire of some consumer groups, were introduced to combat rising gas prices in 2008, when the price of barrel of oil first topped $100. They've remained in place as gas prices have fluctuated, though Monday a barrel was priced at $96.90.

Delta Airlines generated the most in bag fees in 2010, bringing in $952 million. American Airlines came in second with $580 million. The airlines generated $698 million and $471 million in reservation change fees respectively. 

The report on bag fees can be read here and the numbers on reservation changes can be viewed here.

New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D) and Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) criticized cuts to rail security, calling them "reckless and dangerous."

Lautenberg and Holt rallied with workers at the Trenton Transit Center to oppose the cut. The pair said the Republican budget would reduce federal spending on rail security by 65 percent.

The topic is an issue again on Capitol Hill because Lautenberg scheduled a hearing this week  to examine reports that terrorist Osama bin Laden was planning to target American railways before he was killed. 

On Monday, he said again the potential plots should cause Republicans to reconsider their spending cuts.

"Six weeks after the American military’s raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, one thing is clear: this ruthless killer is dead and gone, but Al Qaeda remains determined to strike the U.S. again,” Lautenberg, who chairs the Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, said in a statement.