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inspectors overseeing American Airlines have been given until May 30 to complete
19 overdue inspections of the carrier, the latest sign that regulators are
tightening supervision after lax oversight of Southwest Airlines was exposed. |
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Faced with escalating fuel costs that have helped spur a round of consolidation
fever, Continental Airlines unveiled an $80 million first-quarter loss Thursday
while perennial profit-maker Southwest Airlines posted a modest gain. |
WASHINGTON — The recent groundings of thousands of flights have raised flags
about skipped airplane inspections and botched repairs to wiring.
But what really worries aviation specialists? Runway collisions.
“Where we are most vulnerable at this moment is on the ground,” the chairman of
the National Transportation Safety Board, Mark V. Rosenker, said. “To me, this
is the most dangerous aspect of flying.” |
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- The chief executive officer of Delta Air Lines Inc., Richard Anderson,
received total compensation valued at nearly $11.3 million for the four months
he ran the nation's third-largest carrier in 2007, according to a regulatory
filing Thursday. |
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GENEVA , April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Airbus have
signed an agreement to work together to ensure global interoperability in air
traffic management as part of an effort to help reduce the impact of aviation on
the environment. The companies will seek the acceleration of improvements to the
world's air transportation management system in order to increase efficiency and
eliminate traffic congestion.will seek the acceleration of improvements to the
world's air transportation management system in order to increase efficiency and
eliminate traffic congestion. |
 "Establishing this single, state-of-the-art facility will improve our
competitiveness and support flight testing for the complete range of Pratt &
Whitney engines, from turboprops to turbofans up to 90,000 pounds of thrust,"
said Benoit Brossoit, Senior Vice President, Service Centres & Operations, P&WC.
"We have recently won several competitions to supply engines for new aircraft,
and we need to evolve our flight test operations to support this growth." |
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Chicago says it is aggressively working to complete the expansion of
delay-plagued O'Hare International Airport in 2014 -- two years before the city
hopes to be hosting the Olympic Games. The new fast-track timetable represents a
formidable challenge. A massive reconfiguration of O'Hare's crisscrossing
runways would need to be completed in only six years, all while the airport kept
operating during construction. |
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FAA issued a cease-and-desist order late yesterday ordering Santa Monica
(Calif.) Airport officials to halt implementation of an ordinance banning
Category C and D aircraft at the field. Airport director Robert Trimborn sent a
letter on April 10 to airport users advising them that after today (April 24),
“only aircraft in the FAA-designated A and B categories will be allowed to
operate at SMO. |
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia, April 21 (Reuters) - Russia's second city, St Petersburg,
has opened a $1.5 billion tender for a 30-year concession to operate its Pulkovo
airport, a city official said on Monday. A winner will be picked by March 12,
2009 and the concession agreement will be signed by the end of July that year,
the city's vice-governor Yury Molchanov told reporters. |
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Sales of Gulfstream business jets in the first quarter increased 17 percent
year-over-year, Nicholas Chabraja, chairman and CEO of parent company General
Dynamics, said yesterday during an investor conference call. According to
Chabraja, backlog at the Savannah, Ga. |
A pilot's laptop, filled with top secret security information was reported
missing at Dulles Airport and the ripple effects were felt across the country.
The Mesa Airlines employee couldn't find the personal laptop he brought with him
while co-piloting a United Express flight from Birmingham, Alabama to Dulles
International Airport |
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WASHINGTON - Outside experts will judge the federal government's system for
overseeing airline safety, after questionable maintenance practices were
discovered at Southwest and American airlines, officials announced Friday. |
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