Move Tied To Violations Of Procedures For Screening Checked Bags
TSA says 25 employees at Newark Airport will lose their jobs and 19 more will be suspended because of violations of "standard operating procedures for screening checked bags at one of the airports 25 baggage screening rooms." Offenses range from sleeping on the job to failure to consistently perform random screening of checked bags.
Senator Says Upgraded Airport Will Help Attract Business, Jobs To The State
Over the next five years the FAA plans to invest approximately $110 million in upgrading T.F. Green Airport, including $50 million for a runway extension, $30 million for runway safety, and an estimated $30 million for noise mitigation. Peter Frazier, Interim President & CEO of the Rhode Island Airport Corporation (RIAC) made the announcement earlier this week.
Recognizes Experience In Design And Deployment Of PBS Approaches
At the ICAO Performance-based Navigation (PBN) Symposium this week, GE Aviation received ICAO’s endorsement as a qualified instrument flight procedure design organization. The endorsement will assist countries in identifying instrument flight procedure (IFP) design companies as they move to deploy PBN.
Claims Lapse In Airline Security Allowed Terrorists Into The System
The leaseholder of the World Trade Center property is arguing in a Manhattan court that United Airlines is at least partly responsible for allowing terrorists Mohammed Atta and Abdul Aziz al Omari on board a US Airways flight in Portland, ME. The pair eventually hijacked an American Airlines 767 which impacted the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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