Report Card Shows Little Change in Two Years, Despite Good
Intentions
A statement by the Coalition of Airline Pilots Association
charges that, "Airline travel remains vulnerable to terrorist
attack nearly four years after 9/11."
In numbers just disclosed to ANN, we're pleased to note that is
only two months into the new year, and already the airline industry
hiring figures have eclipsed last year's by 85, up 6% to
1,420 in 2005 versus 1,335 during the same period in
2004.
Rockwell Collins has announced that Lufthansa CityLine recently
performed its first low visibility take-off using Rockwell Collins
Flight Dynamics Head-Up Guidance System (HGS). The Bombardier
CRJ200 was taking off from Milan’s Malpensa airport under
foggy conditions.
777 Hatch Landed Just 18 Feet From Couple On A Stroll
Britain's Air Accident Investigation Branch says the door of a
British Airways 777 wasn't properly fastened shut -- and that's
why, back in June, 2003, the door fell off the aircraft just after
it took off from London's Gatwick Airport.
The $5 billion allocated by the federal government to compensate
U.S. commercial airlines for lost revenue after the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attack was amazingly close to the actual financial
setbacks the airlines sustained, according to two researchers in
the College of Business at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University.
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