Thousands of construction workers, city representatives, employees, and MGM Mirage officials were there on Tuesday for the opening of Vdara Hotel and Spa, the first hotel to open at the new CityCenter.
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The latest excuse offered by the pilots of Northwest flight 188 for missing the Minneapolis airport by 150 miles is, my laptop made me do it! Kinda. Actually in pilot-speak, they claimed they “lost situational awareness.” According to federal investigators, the wayward crew blamed their oversight on a perfect storm of individually trivial events that [...]
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American Express Business Travel is predicting that global-wide international and long-haul business class airfares will rise between one and six percent in 2010.
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The National Transportation Safety Board will take a piece of the fuselage near the hole of the Southwest Boeing 737-300 that made an emergency landing Monday night.
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Crowds at Budapest, Hungary foiled Wizz Air’s plan to release a thousand balloons when they found out what was attached.
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Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) didn’t pull any punches when questioning Federal Aviation Adminstration (FAA) Administrator Randy Babbitt. She started out stating that her experience with the FAA has not been good. The relationship has been poor through both Republican and Democratic administrations.
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United Airlines doesn’t plan to buy any jumbo or super-jumbo jets. The airline industry outlook is a sea of red ink. And the NTSB hearings about the Miracle on the Hudson will be a three-day Web-TV extravaganza.
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We still know little about what actually happened to Air France flight 447. Ned takes a look at existing technology which wasn’t used, that might have made a difference for the flight, and the determination what actually happened.
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Years ago, Ned was in an airplane mishap. In his column today, Ned discusses crash survival, and practical ideas to improve your survival probability in the unlikely chance of an accident.
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A large section of the wing of a US Airways flight dislodged while flying over Maryland last month. NTSB Investigators blame metal fatigue.
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