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Flight Delays Will Only Get Worse, Say Experts
The New York Times looks at the country’s most consistently late airplane—American Airlines Flight 1659, from Newark to Chicago—and asks industry professionals about the rapidly deteriorating quality...
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Cessna Goes On The Defensive
This isn’t a good time to be in the aviation industry. And not just commercial airlines. Corporate airplanes became a symbol of corporate excess and fatcat arrogance during the economic meltdown. So...
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Worst Company In The Air: Oceanic Vs. TransAmerican
Every airline has a few in-air horror stories in its history, but there are two commercial carriers whose public image is dominated by their catastrophe-related headlines. TransAmerican Airline first...
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Man Behind Hijack Scare On Virgin Australia Flight Was Just Exhausted,...
(Travelin’ Librarian)An Australian man who caused a hijacking scare on a recent Virgin Australia flight to Indonesia when he banged on the cockpit cabin’s door won’t be charged, officials say, because...
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Spirit Flight Attendant Probably Shouldn’t Have Posed For Photos In Jet’s...
WLS-TV in Chicago reports that a Spirit Airlines flight attendant posed for photos inside the plane’s engine while passengers were boarding the aircraft. When going through the boarding process for an...
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Airplane Door Panel Falls From Sky, Nearly Makes Hole-In-One On Golf Course
(Eric Spiegel) When playing a round of golf you might hear the occasional “FORE!” as a warning to watch out for a ball flying through the air. What you don’t expect is for the object hurtling though...
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Cat Gets Loose On Delta Air Lines Flight, Tries To Realize Dream Of Being A...
Traveling can be a mundane, routine task: print off your boarding pass, check your bags, walk through security, sit at your gate, board, and takeoff. But a recent Delta Air Lines flight had the...
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Plane’s Emergency Slide Falls 2,800 Feet, Lands Outside Arizona House
Remember last year when an airplane door panel fell from the sky, landing on a North Carolina golf course? While that was certainly an unusual and scary situation, an Arizona woman can now top it: an...
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American Airlines Apologizes To Family Kicked Off Flight Over Service Dog
American Airlines apologized and opened an investigation recently after an Illinois family claimed they were kicked off a flight because an attendant thought their service dog was too big. WSOC-TV...
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American Airlines Regional Plane Returns To Runway After Striking Deer
Occasionally, we’ll hear of a plane returning to the airport after colliding with a bird or birds upon takeoff –including one incident that resulted in a two-foot dent in a nose of an aircraft — but...
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