Air traffic errors climb, pilot sues Continental Express for termination, Delta airplane’s landing gear fails
Other than debating health care proposals these days, Washington D.C. seems to be asleep at the switch. But the airline travel front and efforts to legislate a maximum three-hour delay rule as part of the FAA Reauthorization bill is moving forward.
This story, by Tim Cummins, Chief Executive Officer of the International Association For Contract & Commercial Management (IACCM), was forwarded to me by the head of the Business Travel Coalition, one of the many organizations working actively now to encourage passage of specific time regulations to limit passenger tarmac delays. The airline industry has not been about to solve the problem, because there are no legal consequences to their inactivity and prevarication.
The Secretary of Transportation go after Continental Express about tarmac delay. Obama decides on a new TSA chief. Security Cameras at La Guardia miss entire episode of would-be suicide bomber Scott McGann.
The Transportation Department this morning a sent a letter to Continental Airlines inquiring into the circumstances of its recent Continental/Express Jet flight 2816 extended delay. So what’s next? I asked Transportation Department spokesman Bill Mosley.
