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October 23, 2007

Meeting Of Airline Minds On JFK Overcapacity Kicks Off

DOT Asks Airlines To Come To Agreement On Cutting Back

The Department of Transportation's much-bandied airline summit on efforts to restrict capacity at New York's JFK International Airport kicked off Tuesday.

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LAX Wants Orange County Residents To Pay Fee

Retribution For Rejecting El Toro As Alternative?

A proposal to charge Orange County residents to use Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) has surfaced again.

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Airport Near Misses Prompted Immediate Action

Incursions Down At Dozens Of Airports

FAA officials say after ratcheting up airport markings and giving clearer instruction that runway incursion safety has improved.

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Hedge Funds Have Delta Pilots On Edge

Shorted Stock May Hint At Looming Merger

Hedge fund investors have put Delta Air Lines Inc.'s pilots on alert, by shorting Delta stock... just as CEO Richard Anderson renewed speculation the airline could combine with a rival.

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Garuda Investigation Finds Singing Pilot Was Fixated On Landing

Copilot Also Ignored Procedures, Did Not Take Control

The singing pilot of an ill-fated Garuda flight that crashed in Indonesia, killing 21 people, ignored as many as 15 inflight alarms on the descent to landing.

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United's Tilton Continues To Talk About Change

Looking For Merger, Added Charges

Believing United Airlines needs competitive change, Chief Executive Glenn Tilton wants to pursue everything... from a merger, to charging passengers who want their luggage to come first off the plane, according to the Chicago Tribune.

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Sioux City Airport Accepts Unfortunate Identifier

Encourages Travelers To "FLY SUX"

For years, it has been a thorn in the sides of officials with Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City, IA. Every time a pilot entered the airport's identifier on a flight plan... every time they'd see a sectional chart... they were reminded as far as the FAA was concerned, Sioux City's airport was, well, SUX.

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