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Delta Asks For More Time To Submit Reorg Plan

If Granted, Second Request Would Extend Deadline To Nov. 8

Remember when you were in college, and you asked your professor for "just a little more time" to wrap up that term paper you were supposed to hand in? Well, management for Delta Air Lines can perhaps relate to that... as the nation's third-largest airline has once again asked for "just a little more time" in filing its reorganization plan with the US bankruptcy court.

In Surprise Move, NWA Pilots Union Recalls McClain

"It Was Very Clandestine"

The second time wasn't the charm for Mark McClain, who -- after surviving an earlier recall attempt as head of the Northwest Airlines pilots union in April, in the middle of tough negotiations that resulted in steep pay cuts and major concessions -- was ousted from his post Tuesday by a 6-5 recall vote.

Possible Deal On Wright Amendment?

Dallas Mayor Plans News Conference; Everyone Else Confused

Could this be the end of an epic battle? Dallas Mayor Laura Miller is scheduled to stand before reporters at noon Thursday, to announce she's reached a compromise with Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief in the ongoing war over the Wright Amendment. The decades-old legislation limits commercial flights to and from Dallas Love Field to a handful of adjoining states.

United Airlines To Slash 1000 Jobs

Aims To Save $400 Million Annually

Attention, United Airlines workers who've watched your salaries decline and your pensions go away: management is about to feel your pain.

PASS Troubled By ATL Tower Outage

Says FTI System To Blame

Controllers working at the Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport's sparkling new control tower found themselves doing their jobs the old-fashioned way last week, when a telecommunications system at the new tower went down for four-and-a-half hours on the morning of June 8.