The fallout from the Koito seat debacle
Ever since news came out that airline seat manufacturer Koito had been falsifying safety data for their products the industry has been waiting to learn...
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New United to fly as Continental after all
Merging two airlines together requires a lot more than just slapping a new name on all the airplanes and updating the marketing slicks. On the...
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Delta looks to increase service to London, Raleigh-Durham
One of the conditions handed down by the European and US authorities for the approval of the American Airlines – British Airways anti-trust immunity application...
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US Air applies for exemption to 3-hour rule
The writing was on the wall for this one since a couple weeks ago when Delta, American Airlines and jetBlue applied for exemptions at JFK,...
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Controlling the air traffic in Port-au-Prince
There are scores of stories coming out of Haiti every day. Most are tragic. The destruction is simply overwhelming and the infrastructure wasn’t really all...
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Row44 finally flying
The battles between in-flight internet service providers are rather entertaining. The two main players, Row44 and Aircell (provider of the gogo service) are after each...
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A quarter inch = 2500+ cancellations
The details are trickling out on the AA re-grounding of their MD-80 aircraft, and it looks like a quarter of an inch is the cause...
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AA’s Mad Dogs back on the ground
Less than a month after grounding all their MD-80 planes to ensure compliance with FAA-mandated inspections, American Airlines is grounding all their MD-80 planes to...
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More planes grounded for FAA inspections
This time, it is United Airlines and the plane type in question is the Boeing 777. UA has grounded their entire fleet of 777s as...
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Delta joins the MD groundings
Following on AA’s need to ground and inspect their MD80s yesterday, Delta announced that they were performing a similar set of checks, and similarly taking...