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Abu Dhabi International Airport launches the first personalised airport website
Abu Dhabi International Airport today launched its new website, www.abudhabiairport.ae, introducing a range of innovative features, designed to enhance the entire travel experience for business and leisure travellers. The new website includes a unique feature through the “Passenger Guide” tab, allowing passengers to obtain information with regards to their airport experience according to their personal […]
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Congress should let FAA continue work with towers and save workers’ jobs
At LaGuardia, one of the nation’s busiest airports, this workweek began with customary hustle and bustle – except among the workers demolishing the airport’s old control tower. At 8 p.m. on Sunday, the contractor hired to oversee this essential modernization project delivered a painful message to his 40 employees: Because the United States Congress didn’t […]
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FAA stats show fewer pilots break airspace rules
Even as fighter jets were scrambled on successive days this month to intercept airspace violators near the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., military and civilian aviation officials say fewer pilots are breaking U.S. airspace restrictions this year. The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, which represents private and business pilots, has been trying to reduce […]
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Moroccan plane crashes killed scores of people
Seventy-eight of the 81 people aboard a Moroccan C-130 military transport plane are believed to have died when it crashed into a mountain on Tuesday in bad weather. The plane was preparing to land at Guelmim military air base in southern Morocco, near the disputed Western Sahara. The remains of 42 people have been found […]
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Plane crashes into Lake Winnebago, 2 die
The National Transportation Safety Board has started to investigate a plane crash in Lake Winnebago that killed a man and a woman. Authorities said a yellow 1940 Piper Cub was apparently trying to make an emergency landing when it went down. It happened just before noon yesterday about a quarter-mile off the western shore of […]
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Tiger Airways expands fleet and flights
Budget carrier Tiger Airways said it is to add six Airbus A320 aircraft to its fleet by March next year as part of moves to step up operations and capture the growing appetite for low-fare travel in the Asia-Pacific region. The move will increase the size of its fleet to 20 aircraft. The carrier also […]
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Plane crash kills 78 in Morocco
A plane crash in southern Morocco killed 78 people Tuesday, the state news agency reported. The Moroccan C-130 military plane crashed in the southern part of the country, state-run Agence Maghreb Arabe Presse reported. The aircraft, belonging to Morocco’s Royal Armed Forces, crashed into a mountain as it attempted to land at a military airport […]
airline \ Atlanta \ Bahamas \ flights \ Grand Bahama Island \ Kentucky \ Vision Airlines
Airline to offer Louisville flight to Bahamas
An airline says it will begin a $99 nonstop flight from Louisville to a Caribbean island later this year. Vision Airlines says there will be two weekly departures from Louisville International Airport to Grand Bahama Island beginning Nov. 3. The flights on a 148-seat Boeing 737 will take off at 7 p.m. on Thursdays and […]
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Plastic takes to skies
Air India has ordered 27 of them, Jet Airways another 10. Most of these aircraft should have begun commercial operations by now, but not one has yet been delivered. Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner has been inordinately delayed. The ambitious plan that called for 787 parts to be flown in from various places across the world […]
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Airlines taking savings from expired taxes
Airlines are tossing consumers aside and grabbing the benefit of lower federal taxes on travel tickets. By Saturday night, nearly all the major U.S. airlines had raised fares to offset taxes that expired the night before. That means instead of passing along the savings, the airlines are pocketing the money while customers pay the same […]