Get ready Philly! You deserve the nonstop inflight entertainment on RED (their inflight entertainment system)- including live channels BRAVO TV- that you can begin watching the moment you take your seat plus music, movies and that is only the beginning.
Now the birds and the plane are grounded in Alabama while the Federal Aviation Administration investigates whether the journey violates regulations because the pilot was being paid by a conservation group to lead the cranes on their first migration instead of working for free.
Agency regulations say only pilots with commercial pilot licenses can fly for hire. The pilots of the plane for the group, Operation Migration, are instead licensed to fly sport [...]
Picture the business traveler who has already passed through security only to discover a flight delay of several hours. At most airports, such a traveler has few options: wandering through the nearby shops and restaurants, waiting in a chair near the gate or, for a fee, waiting in an airline lounge.
This was the situation in which Rossana Magalhaes found herself recently when her flight was eight hours late leaving Atlanta.
“I walked and took naps sitting up, had [...]
Higher hotel prices, airline capacity cuts and rising travel demand mean travelers will have to work harder to find a good deal in 2012. However, plenty of online tools can help keep your vacation expenses in check. Here are 19 go-to websites to help you save money this year.
Flights
Looking for sales on a specific route, or just want to go somewhere inexpensive? AirfareWatchdog.com hunts down deals computers tend to miss, such as promo codes that airlines [...]
The Wall Street Journal released its annual Middle Seat scorecard Thursday, ranking airlines’ customer service. Using data culled from Dept. of Transportation records and Flightstats.com, WSJ looked at everything from late flights to lost bags in compiling its rankings.
Here’s how some of the worst performers ranked and some insights into why:
American Airlines
The last place airline was American, the airline that attained notoriety after losing Jack the Cat in its John F. [...]
* Traffic, measured in RPK, up 12.2 pct yr-on-yr
* IAG premium Dec traffic up 13.6 pct
* IAG non-premium traffic up 12 pct
* Ryanair Dec traffic down 5 pct
* IAG shares down 2.8 pct
LONDON, Jan 5 (Reuters) – International Airlines Group
, formed by the merger of BA and Iberia (Madrid: IBLA.MC – news) , posted a strong
rise in traffic in December, boosted by continued growth in
first and business class passenger numbers.
Traffic, measured in [...]
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Exchange students from Mosul University in Iraq spent a summer session at Angelo State University in 1990 before the invasion of Kuwait.
SAN ANGELO, Texas —
For a few weeks in the summer of 1990, 10 students from a university in Iraq attended Angelo State University, the start of a much anticipated international student exchange program.
That promising start was crushed by Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2, 1990, launching what became the [...]
Verdict The only price that matters is the one on the bottom line. Make
sure you are happy with that, rather than be distracted by an apparent
discount or incentive.
Low deposits
These are a classic way of tempting you to commit to a holiday. They can be
helpful – you secure the deal you want, while forking out less than you
thought you might have to initially. But you are still committing fully to
buying the [...]
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While 2012 is likely to feature a variety of dramatic airline news stories, if only because most years in the volatile and hypercompetitive industry beget drama, some of the biggest developments will come from the world’s largest airline, United Continental Holdings Inc. of Chicago.
Behind the scenes, the company will attempt to merge United’s and Continental’s reservation computer systems, a huge and perilous undertaking. It will also be the first North American airline to take delivery of the [...]
New horizons … Los Angeles airport.
Etihad’s first-class feasts
Chefs are in first-class kitchens on Etihad Airways flights to Sydney, Melbourne, London and Paris, and alongside the staff is a new menu from the airline’s Mezoon Grille.
The menu includes rib-eye steak, hammour and beef tenderloin. There’s a choice of desserts (warm cheese souffle, lemongrass panna cotta, triple chocolate cake, pandan sago with passionfruit coulis) or [...]
Apparently, getting the unfortunate honor of occupying the middle seat on an airplane is not just an inconvenience for some people, but a full-on traumatic experience. The company 3M wanted to know just how many people hated the middle seat, so it commissioned a survey. According to 3M, 56% of Americans would rather get stuck in traffic or go on a blind date than sit in the middle seat. One out of every two people said they would rather take [...]
Shares in India’s Kingfisher Airlines ended nearly five percent down on Friday, as two of its main lenders said the ailing airline had defaulted on interest payments on its outstanding loans.
India’s aviation regulator has raised safety concerns over debt-hit Kingfisher (Euronext: KFR.NX – news) ‘s operations, fearing that its financial problems could impact safety standards.
Shares in the private airline tumbled as much as 10.76 percent to an intraday low of 18.25 rupees at the Bombay Stock Exchange, before [...]
The European Union refused Thursday to back down from a disputed airline emissions fee despite China’s refusal to pay the new charge to land in Europe (Chicago Options: ^REURUSD – news) .
The 27-nation EU began to require all airlines to buy pollution permits to fly to Europe on January 1 despite stiff opposition from the United States, China and many other countries.
Some airlines have started to pass the cost on to their passengers.
“We are not modifying our law [...]
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The European Union refused Thursday to back down from a disputed airline emissions fee despite China‘s refusal to pay the new charge to land in Europe.
The 27-nation EU began to require all airlines to buy pollution permits to fly to Europe on January 1 despite stiff opposition from the United States, China and many other countries.
Some airlines have started to pass the cost on to their passengers.
“We are not modifying our law and we are not backing down,” Isaac Valero-Ladron, [...]
BRUSSELS — The European Commission said on Thursday that airlines that did not follow a new European law requiring them to account for their emissions of greenhouse gases could face being banned from European airports.
The warning was the latest stage in an escalating war of words between the European Union and countries like China, which have expressed fierce opposition to a law that represents the European Union’s boldest move to date to [...]
