Airline Hopes For Cost Savings

Hoping to slash the cash gash (alliteration is fun!), Continental Airlines says it'll do away with paper ticketing in almost all circumstances by the end of the year.

Sun Country To Charge Passengers By The Mile

Sun Country Airlines has very quietly launched a new program where passengers pay $29 for a round trip flight, plus nine cents a mile. It's a new way of pricing airline travel and, if you belong to the company's "VIP Club," you pay the same rate right up until departure time -- no advanced purchase required.

AD NUMBER: 2004-07-22 MANUFACTURER: Boeing SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2004-07-22 SUMMARY: This amendment supersedes two existing airworthiness directives (ADs), applicable to all Boeing Model 747 series airplanes, that currently require that the FAA-approved maintenance inspection program be revised to include inspections that will give no less than the required damage tolerance rating for each structural significant item, and repair of cracked structure. Those ADs were prompted by a structural re-evaluation that identified additional structural elements where, if damage were to occur, supplemental inspections may be required for timely detection of fatigue cracking. This amendment requires addit