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All News

January 29, 2009

Boeing Says Fasteners All Right For First 787 Flight

Faulty Attachments Located In Hard-To-Reach Areas

Boeing has announced it will make the first flight of its new 787 Dreamliner without replacing faulty fasteners in some hard-to-reach areas of the plane, to avoid further delays in development of the popular new plane.

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American Cuts 767-300 Capacity Due To Lack Of Rafts

Audit Determined Seat Change Took Planes Out Of Regs

The next time you're onboard an American Airlines trans-Atlantic flight, you may notice fewer people onboard. The Fort Worth, TX-based airline will limit the number of passengers allowed to fly onboard its Boeing 767-300s, after the carrier found the planes did not have the required number of life rafts onboard.

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Teamsters Ask For Outsourcing Moratorium In Stimulus Bill

Want Aircraft Maintenance Work Kept In-Country

Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi this week, urging her to include in the stimulus bill a moratorium on outsourcing aircraft maintenance to foreign repair stations.

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Airline Reinstates Pilot Safety Program

ASAP's Back At Delta... Thanks To Northwest

Delta Air Lines signed a memorandum of understanding this week with the Air Line Pilots Association and the Federal Aviation Administration to reinstate its Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP) covering pre-merger Delta pilots.

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Sun Country Posts Small Profit In Fourth Quarter

Reports Of Our Death Have Been... Well, You Know

We're not going to call the turnaround in fortunes for St. Paul, MN-based Sun Country Airlines "miraculous"... though for a company many chalked up for dead last October, news of a fourth quarter profit is nothing short of amazing.

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NTSB Sends Team To Lubbock To Investigate ATR Accident

Plane Crashed On ILS Approach To Downwind Runway

The National Transportation Safety Board has dispatched a team to investigate Tuesday's downing of an ATR-42 operated by Empire Airlines for FedEx.

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Spirit FAs: 'We Are Safety Professionals, Not Billboards'

Take LCC To Task For Innuendo-Laden Ads, Alcohol Promotion

Flight attendants with low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines say management recently launched a series of "degrading and demeaning" advertisements... and they've had enough.

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