Students Receive $135,000 Collectively

Delta Air Lines will award seven scholarships to students pursuing degrees in aviation business management, aviation maintenance and engineering. The scholarships, totaling $135,000, will be awarded during the Women in Aviation International (WAI) conference, March 10-13, in Reno (NV). Delta will award three $5,000 academic scholarships to students and four training scholarships valued at $120,000. Including this year's scholarships, Delta has awarded $215,000 in scholarships to students pursuing degrees in aviation. Delta was the first organization to award a scholarship in Engineering through WAI.  

Transport Commissioner Wants More Access to US Domestic Market

A current U.S. offer on opening airline markets is insufficient and more talks are needed, EU transport ministers said, adding that a deal may not be possible this year. The EU wants the United States to further ease ownership limits and give EU carriers more access to U.S. routes. For Washington, a key goal is having more carriers operating out of Europe's busiest airport, Heathrow in London. EU transport ministers urged the European Commission to ask for further U.S. concessions in another round of talks due on March 29. European Transport Commissioner Loyola de Palacio said a deal might be possible this year, but Washington had to improve its offer on access to its domestic market.

Phone Call Made To Wife, Mother

Passengers on one of the planes terrorists crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, planned to resist the hijackers, according to the widow of one of the passengers who was interviewed by CNN. About three-and-a-half minutes before the doomed United Airlines Flight 175 struck the trade center's south tower, Brian David Sweeney, a 38-year-old former U.S. Navy pilot from Barnstable, Mass., made two phone calls. Sweeney left a message for his wife, Julie, on his home answering machine, then he called his mom. The calls came to light in a January statement from the independent commission investigating the attacks. Louise Sweeney confirmed that her son called, but said the details were too personal for her to discuss. Telephone calls

EasyJet Bans 'Urinating' Golfers

A group of golfers has been banned from flying with UK-based Easyjet after one allegedly urinated into an airplane seat pocket. The airline claims the incident took place on a flight from Bristol to Faro airport in Portugal on Friday night. The 15 golfers - most of whom were in their 40s and from Abergavenny and Cardiff - were told they must find alternative transport home on Monday. The men, who deny any wrongdoing, are considering legal action to recover the money they had to spend to get home. Easyjet spokeswoman Samantha Day insisted the low-cost airline would not compensate the group and said the men owed the cabin crew on flight EZY 6007 an apology.

Feared Attacks By Legal Investigation

The airline Swiss suffered a setback in its attempts to fly out of financial trouble when chief executive Andre Dose announced he was resigning from the post. Dose said in a statement he was standing down because he was likely to be targeted by a legal probe into the crash of a Crossair airliner near Zurich in November 2001, in which 24 people were killed. The outgoing head of Swiss was at the helm of the regional airline Crossair at the time of the accident. Swiss announced in a statement that chairman Pieter Bouw would take over the chief executive's role on a temporary basis with immediate effect.

Raleigh-Durham International Airport Needs Help

With the number of business passengers at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport on the upswing, a congestion-free terminal is more important than ever. That makes the ideas of the design team at Fentress Bradburn Architects, the Denver firm hired to redesign Terminal C, crucial to efficiently moving travelers through RDU. Designers are planning simple design elements to smooth passenger flow. Thom Walsh, one of the architects working on Terminal C, says designers are discussing strategies to get people from the parking lot to their airplanes more quickly. Tim Clancy, chairman of the RDU Airport Authority and president of Clancy & Theys Construction Co., notes that there will be a moving sidewalk from the lobby down the con

AD NUMBER: 2004-05-13

MANUFACTURER: Bombardier SUBJECT: Fatigue Cracks SUMMARY: This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain Bombardier Model DHC-8-401 and -402 airplanes. This action requires a records review to determine the repair/modification status of the airplane, and follow-on and corrective actions as necessary. This action is necessary to prevent cracks in the lower fuselage skin due to fatigue damage in the vicinity of the Number 2 VHF antenna, which could result in rapid decompression of the airplane.