http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/08/03/financial1841EDT0016.DTL Israel is to ban foreign airliners without bulletproof cockpit doors from flying over the country or landing at its airports effective Oct. 31, a spokesman for the Ministry of Transportation said Sunday. The International Civil Aviation Organization, the

Most airlines only inform passengers the flight delays by displaying the 'Delayed' sign on the board displaying flight number, and nothing else. But some low cost airlines do better. Ryanair informs the causes of flight delay, like ATC delay, weather delay, etc. Jetblue places TV on the borading gates, so to display the real-time situation of the ...

I thinked of a joke of an Airbus aircraft used for intra-city transportation, immediately after reading someone's message in a railway newsgroup of Hong Kong, which he said he KMB 66 (a bus route) from Prince Edward to Tuen Mun Park for only 10 minutes, which normally takes at least 60 minutes. (Don't mind if you don't understand the places ...

Southeast Airlines (www.southeastairlines.com), a charter carier headquartered in Largo, Florida, was founded since 1992. But it does not fly flights from Largo. Instead most of its flights from northeast USA and Florida. It runs 8 aircrafts consisting of DC-9-30 for flights of 3 hour or less, and MD-80 for flights over 3 hours, as well as flights

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/131126_united17.html United Airlines, struggling to become profitable, took a gamble in January and cut business fares, hoping to attract reluctant corporate travelers and raise revenue. United reduced prices between 40 percent and 70 percent in its two biggest markets, Chicago and Denver. The fares paid by

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/131205_boeinglayoffs17.html Boeing is going to lay off 5,000 more commercial aircraft workers on 2003-7-17. The 5,000 job cuts are on top of the original plan to slash 25,000 to 30,000 workers. By June 2003, the company had cut 33,900 jobs since December 2001. As many as 40,000 jobs could be cut from ...

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2003/07/14-olympic-air.htm Olympic Airways (OA), founded in 1956 by Greek larger-than-life tycoon Aristotle Onassis, and becomes fully state-owned since 1975, is in bad shape, and is going to bankrupt. In 2000, the last year for which the state-owned airline has bothered to publish annual results, its ...

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2003/07/10-avianca.htm NEW YORK (Reuters) — Colombian airline Avianca, the world's second-oldest airline after KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, has asked a U.S. court to extend its deadline to file an exclusive reorganization plan to emerge from bankruptcy protection. Under U.S. law, Avianca has 120 days from the day ...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001085293_boeing15.html Boeing B757, with more 1000 built since 1982, could have its production ceased as early as summer 2004, unless there are new customers for the aging jet. Meanwhile, Boeing is also looking for a launch customer for the 737-900X, a derivative that would have 200 to ...

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2003/07/14-airbus-japan.htm Airbus, which has low markst share in Japan comapred to Boeing (32 vs 134 for ANA and 34 vs 152 for JAL), could have its disadvantage in Japan changed, because of the launch of A380 super-jumbo, which is highly suited to high density Japanese market and has increased involvement of ...