CNN reports that officials shut down security checkpoints at
Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport for two hours
Wednesday afternoon, after a "suspicious device" was detected in a
screening machine.
IAM Says If You Can't Beat 'Em... Ask Them To Join YOUR
Union
In just over eight months, replacement mechanics hired at
Northwest Airlines to fill in for striking members of the Aircraft
Mechanics Fraternal Association have gone from being oft-maligned
pariahs, to themselves being courted by AMFA-rival International
Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers -- the current
ground workers union at the airline.
As Hooters Air flew its last commercial flights as a regularly
scheduled airline on Monday, Hooters of America chairman Robert
Brooks received papers for a $4.5 million lawsuit filed against him
by CIT Leasing, the company that owned two of the bright orange and
white 737s that, until recently, flew in Hooters Air livery.
Last week, travelers rejoiced at the news the pilots union at
Delta Air Lines had reached a tentative agreement with airline
management on a new pay and benefits package, averting a possible
holiday-weekend pilots strike. Just how "tentative"
that deal may be, though, will now come up for review -- as union
leaders meet in New Orleans Wednesday to decide whether to accept
the deal or not.
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