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FAA's Babbitt Testifies In Senate Hearings

Investigation of Colgan Air Flight 3704 Focuses On Training, Records

North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan (D), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee's Aviation Subcommittee (pictured right), Wednesday called on the FAA to "immediately" begin the process of changing a rule that can allow airlines to hire pilots without checking their training history beyond five years.

NTSB's Rosenker Discusses FAA's Role In Oversight Of Commercial Air Carriers

NTSB Acting Chairman Mark V. Rosenker has testified before Congress about the FAA role in the Oversight of Commercial Air Carriers and the relevance to Safety Board recommend

NATCA Complaining About FAA Plan To Split Memphis Air Traffic Facility

NATCA v FAA... Again

It's been a few days since we heard that NATCA wasn't happy about something and wouldn't you know that the party that they're STILL most unhappy with happens to have the initials 'F.A.A.'

Airline On-Time Performance Improves in April

On Time Arrival Rate Climbs to Nearly 80%

The nation's largest airlines had a rate of on-time flights this past April that was higher than both the same month last year and the mark posted in March 2009, according to the Air Travel Consumer Report released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).

UAL FA's NOT Happy With Management

Flight Attendants To Protest 2009 UAL Shareholder Meeting

To paraphrase -- hell hath no fury like an FA scorned -- especially when they seem to have some serious beefs with United Airlines -- a company that makes it all too easy to believe that they're in trouble for something... again.