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JFK and EWR need to expand, hologram staff help in Manchester Airport in UK, JetBlue adds fuel surcharges to the Caribbean

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Ned Levi discusses his recent Amtrak experience during the nor’easter last weekend, and Amtrak serious problems in how it treats its passengers, and its judgment about it’s own ability to quickly repair significant widespread systems and power problems.

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ANA opts for long-range Dreamliners and cuts the short-range version, UAL pilot praised for Newark landing, SWA sets record for passenger load

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TSA gone wild

by Charlie Leocha on January 7, 2010

The Christmas pantybomber has sent the Transportation Security Adminstration into hysterics. A overseas lapse in our intelligence gathering operations has resulted in a series of hard-to-explain TSA actions making local and national headlines.

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I watched the recent swapping of airline slots between Delta and USAirways and between AirTran and Continental. Once upon a time the airlines were howling when the FAA wanted to limit landing and take-off slots at La Guardia, Newark and JFK as a solution to overcrowding of the airspace. They claimed that Congress never explicitly gave the FAA the right to auction slots. Has Congress given the airlines explicit rights to sway federal assets? And what about the consumers?

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A U.S. Court of Appeals has agreed to halt the auctioning off the takeoff and landing slots at JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark Liberty airport, a move that was hailed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns and operates the three airports.

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The pending auctions by the FAA slots at Newark is raising the hackles of the Air Transport Association, the New York Port Authority and the normal gaggle of members of Congress who are experts at saying no, without any suggested short-term solutions to the problems of crowded NYC airspace and perpetual delays.

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The controversy continues over whether or not the Department of Transportation should cap the numbers of flights in the New York airspace. Now the obviously overwhelmed New York Port Authority has joined the chorus of “Let’s do nothing.”

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