October 16, 2007
The earth conscious traveler may no longer have to worry about flying on a large aircraft in the near future, as billionaire businessman Richard Branson will be testing a jet with renewable fuel early next year.
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October 16, 2007
We’ve all been waiting for the day when we can surf the internet while on a long flight. Well the days of just tapping away on the keyboard working on documents or other files may have some high-speed competition coming to the friendly skies. Not simply basic internet access on a dialup modem, but true wi-fi broadband access is coming to an airplane near you.
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June 21, 2007
So delayed flights have been in the news a lot since this past winter. Although, not all are weather related delays, some are computer problems which cause delays while others are mechanical in nature. Just thank you're lucky stars that you're flight was delayed and didn't have a malfunctioning toilet.
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June 16, 2007
The British low-cost airline
easyJet hopes to have a new more efficient, and thus environmetally more friendly, planes in its fleet by 2015. When this plane reaches the market, expect more than just easyJet to be updating its fleet with these economical flying machines.
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June 11, 2007
An airline passenger arriving into Miami today is violently ill, and the CDC is called in as a precautionary measure. Canadian medical testing equipment company makes offer to passengers and crew of the Czech airline that carried a passenger with Tuberculosis.
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June 10, 2007
The Russian national airline
Aeroflot has just placed an order from Boeing, for some new planes. As Aeroflot updates its image and safety record, it's getting a new fleet of 787's and A350's to expand its flight service to more Western Countries as well as China.
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June 9, 2007
Was your flight delayed today? This time around it's not the weather's fault. You can blame the FAA, as the delays that reveberated across multiple carriers in mutliple cities was the culprit. This is no consolation to passengers whose travel plans may have been ruined in the process.
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June 4, 2007
Yet another airline will be offering all business class seats for Trans-Atlantic flights. However this is not an upstart airline trying to muscle its way into the new upscale segment or airlines. The airline that will be offering this new business class airline is none other than Virgin Atlantic.
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March 22, 2007
A new Virgin will be serving US travelers by mid summer when the airline passes final Department of Transportation approval.
Virgin America has tentatively been cleared for flight as it has passed ownership rules and safety reviews by the FAA.
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March 16, 2007
As the weather affects much of the Northeast yet again, many airlines are canceling a large number of flights. The
airlines are canceling these flights sooner rather than later and avoiding keeping passengers trapped on grounded planes for hours. The airlines are now trying to get ahead of the weather, and at least keeping travelers happier.
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