By dint of a once-in-a-lifetime confluence of broken machinery and weird luck, American Airlines passenger Phil Stringer unwittingly parlayed a nearly day-long aircraft maintenance delay at Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport (OKC) into a private A321 flight to North Carolina’s Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT).
Taiwan-based China Airlines, the state-owned flag-carrier of the Republic of China (Taiwan, to the sensibilities of China’s communist government), will power its as-of-yet undelivered Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet with the 1B variant of General Electric Aviation’s GEnx (General Electric next-generation) engine.
IATA Says "Fragmentation of Slot Regulation Risks Disruption"
The International Air Transportation Association has called for the "the global alignment of airport slot regulations to safeguard...allocation under the Worldwide Airport Slot Guidelines (WASG)." The gritty details of airline operations aren't often the subject of such intense scrutiny, but recent developments have begun to imperil the status quo enjoyed under the WASG.
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