Airlines Furious Over Prospect Of Losing Midway
If the Bush administration has its way, the airport on the
island of Midway will soon be shut down for good. That will leave a
lot of the twin-engine commercial aircraft operators that fly the
Pacific with few alternatives and the airlines are hopping mad.
Manual Provides Self-Defense Advice For Frequent Flyers
A cup of coffee. A magazine. A necktie. A can of soda.
These are all run-of-the-mill items in the cabin of any commercial
passenger flight. But in this new age of threat and counter threat,
they are also weapons that could foil an attempt to hijack the
plane you're on.
Those tax breaks Boeing's coaxed out of local governments aren't
subsidies. They're "bargaining chips." So says Boeing CEO Harry
Stonecipher, replying to Airbus allegations that the Chicago-based
company has enjoyed a number of local tax breaks which amount to
government backing of the aerospace giant.
When NASA's microgravity experiment platform was introduced
decades ago, it was very quickly dubbed the "vomit comet." That
wasn't a happy pet name. Rather, it was an indication of the
stomach-churning endemic to long parabolic flights.
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