Demand To Know Executive Salary Schedule Post-Bankruptcy
Northwest flight attendants objected this week to the airline's
failure to disclose how much its executives and directors are
scheduled to be paid when the company emerges from bankruptcy later
this year.
The Department of Transportation (DOT) has tentatively approved
Virgin America's application to start a new US airline, finding the
carrier is owned and controlled by U.S. citizens and is fit to
operate as a domestic airline.
James Yates told a jury in Manchester, England this week he
never intended to fly when he showed up at that city's airport last
year, smelling of alcohol... and on Wednesday, the jury agreed.
The right engine of a Continental Airlines Boeing 777-200ER
"shattered" during takeoff from Newark Liberty International
Airport Tuesday, forcing an aborted takeoff.
Will Deliver Completed Rear Fuselage Sections In April
Vought Aircraft Industries, Inc., a program partner on the
Boeing 787 Dreamliner team, tells ANN the company is on track to
deliver its first production ship set from Charleston, SC next
month.
AD NUMBER: 2007-06-13
MANUFACTURER: Airbus
SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2007-06-13
SUMMARY: The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive
(AD) for certain Airbus airplane models, as specified above.
The general public will get a peek Thursday into the contentious
dispute between the US and the European Union -- and their
respective aerospace manufacturers, Boeing and Airbus -- over
accusations of unfair funding practices and subsidies.
Over protests from residents of several affluent neighborhoods
in northwest Las Vegas, NV, on Tuesday airliners departing
westbound from McCarran International Airport began implementing
the so-called "right turn" departure path, as per FAA order.
Confirming reports that surfaced last week regarding plans by
China to enter the large commercial airliner
market -- territory now dominated exclusively by
Boeing and Airbus -- now comes word leaders in that country have
approved the program to produce an "internationally competitive"
200-seat airliner, and bring it to market by 2020.
A Continental Airlines Boeing 757-300 (file photo of type,
below) bound for New Jersey aborted takeoff at McCarran
International Airport in Las Vegas Monday, and blew out several
tires in the resulting hard stop.