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October 23, 2012

A350 XWB Vertical Stab Gets Its Livery

Fresh From The Paint Shop To The Assembly Line

The vertical tail plane of the first flyable A350 XWB (MSN1) has just come out of the paint hall in Toulouse sporting the well-known Airbus blue and white livery. This is the first A350 XWB component to be painted in the Airbus livery.

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X-Ray Scanners Disappearing From Larger U.S. Airports

TSA Moving The Older Technology To Terminals That See Fewer Passengers

The old-style X-ray scanners at major U.S. airports like LAX, New York's Kennedy, Chicago's O'Hare, and Orlando International are being quietly replaced with the newer backscatter scanners, according to TSA. The agency says it is doing so to speed up the screening process in heavily-used terminals, and that the older machines are being re-deployed to smaller airports.

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Mica On TSA Firings: 'Not A Newark Problem'

Says Issues With Agents Is 'Obviously' System-Wide

Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John L. Mica (R-FL) said reports of the latest TSA security meltdown – 44 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees at Newark Liberty International Airport to be fired or suspended for checked baggage screening failures – sounds like a broken record.

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Court Blocks SEA-TAC Aircraft Refuelers' Strike

Workers Have Not Been Through A Dispute Resolution Process Required Under Federal Law

Workers who refuel airplanes at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport may not walk off their jobs, a federal judge has ruled, because they have not been through any federally-mandated dispute resolution process.

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