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The recent earthquake that devastated the Island nation of Haiti brought death and destruction to what is said to be one of the poorest nations in the world.  Highways buckled, hospitals collapsed, many buildings were reduced to piles of rubble only three or four feet high.  Unbelievably the runways at the airport were not badly [...]

This morning Northwest Airlines had to cancel flight #2309 from Detroit to Phoenix.  They announced that they were not able to get a crew together to man the flight.  All passengers were to be given overnight accomodations near the airport and the flight #2309 was rescheduled for tomorrow morning.  The flight for tomorrow is now [...]

The cabin crew employees of British Airways have announced plans to strike the airlines over the Christmas Holidays this year. There is a dispute over the possible elimination of positions for the longer transatlantic flights and a disagreement over wages. The union for cabin employees has set December 22 thru January 2 as the [...]

In their efforts to keep air travel safe and secure the government has implemented a program called Secure Flight. One of the rules to be observed is that full names on the airlines boarding passes must match up exactly with what ever government issued ID the passenger may be using.
If the passenger goes by [...]

Expect flights to be packed this weekend which is usually the busiest flying period of the holidays. According to the Air Transport Association Sunday and Monday, the last two days of this month, are the busiest days for holiday travel. Expect to see planes packed as the number of flights is reduced but [...]