Electric aircraft generates buzz, South Florida wants to put on air show, Congress ups pilot requirements
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Air India crash puts focus on safety, Boeing will develop 737 replacement, Pilots laid off at UPS
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In a major development on the AA front and its rocky labor relations, management has reached an agreement with negotiators in the Transport Workers Union of America who represents the mechanics and other related workers, the largest labor group at the airline.
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“Less options” translates easily into “less choice.” And depending on how the merger, if approved, were to go down, consumers might see gates shrink and airlines disappear from certain ‘less popular’ airports.
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It’s now been reported that on Wednesday night a Delta (Northwest) plane headed from San Diego to Minneapolis overshot its destination by about 120 miles. The two pilots, who were out of contact with controllers for over an hour, blamed the mistake on a heated argument about ‘airline policy’ (never mind that the number one airline policy should be to land where you’re supposed to). Here are 10 reasons they may have missed the airport.
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Yesterday the Las Vegas Sun reported that Steve Wynn would announce who would be a long-time tenant to at the Encore Theater after the death of Danny Gans. It’s no longer a mystery.
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US Airways is still struggling to merge seniority list of pilots. Theory of outsourcing is being tested by the Boeing 787 problems. Big casino may turn around Vegas economy.
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FAA works on new rules for tired pilots. JetBlue joins with Lufthansa in a big code-share deal. Global airlines lose $2 billion according to an international airine association.
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Ned has surveyed almost 100 business and leisure airline passengers to determine their air travel peeves and frustrations with some surprising results.
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The president of the Airline Pilots Association, John Prater, had some sobering words about pilot fatigue before the Senate Subcommittee on Aviation, Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, yesterday. His testimony about the realities of a pilot’s life and duty time are eye-opening, to say the least.
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