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May 11, 2007

Arbitrator Rules Furloughed US Airways Pilots Will Lose Seniority

Will Rank Lower Than More Recent Hires At America West

An arbitrator ruled this week that some 1,800 pilots at US Airways will return to their jobs at the airline, now merged with America West, lower on the seniority-list totem pole than when they left. More recent hires by America West, prior to the merger, will hold higher positions.

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'We Are United, They Are Pigs'

UAL Workers Protest Shareholder Meeting

Things are getting ugly in Chicago. Carrying signs with such slogans as "Fix It Now" and "We Are United, They Are Pigs," around 400 pilots, mechanics, and flight attendants for United Airlines picketed outside the Field Museum Thursday, where inside the first shareholders meeting for the carrier in five years was underway.

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Passengers On AAL Flight Stranded For 10 Hours

Plane Diverted To PBI, Pax Held Onboard

It was a perfect storm, of sorts... as nearly everything that could go wrong onboard American Airlines 1908 -- a flight from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti to Miami -- did. The resulting fiasco kept 145 passengers onboard an Airbus A300 for 10 hours Sunday, and into the wee hours of Monday morning.

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Northwest Creditors Give Thumbs-Up To Reorg Plan

Unofficial Vote Indicates "Overwhelming" Approval

Northwest Airlines announced its creditors have "overwhelmingly approved" its reorganization plan, another key step on its way toward emerging from bankruptcy protection next month.

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FAA Puts Hat In Hand In Latest 'Fact Sheet'

Stresses Agency Needs Funding For NextGen

The FAA has published a fact sheet detailing the agency's efforts to modernize the nation's air traffic control system... while also taking the opportunity to plug its proposed funding reauthorization plan, now before Congress.

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NATCA Claims FAA Response Delayed Evacuation Of Dulles Tower

Incident Latest Example Of "Botched" Handling Of Health Issues, Union Says

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association -- a group never at a loss to point out what the Federal Aviation Administration has done wrong, especially in the aftermath of failed contract negotiations last year -- says the agency delayed evacuating air traffic control tower personnel at Washington Dulles Airport on Wednesday morning for 45 minutes, resulting in prolonged exposure to high levels of carbon monoxide fumes.

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