Posted on 09 May 2012. Tags: airlines, America, Chance, finding-the-seats, flights, International, record-number, result, seats, slightly-fuller, Travel, Travelers
Passengers on U.S. airlines this summer will stand a good chance of finding the seats next to them occupied. The industry group Airlines for America is projecting “slightly fuller flights” than last summer, “driven in part by a record number of international travelers.”
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Summer flights expected to be full
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Posted on 16 February 2012. Tags: air, always-get, cargo, flights, loaded-onto, passenger, result, rigorous, screening, scrutiny, the-cargo, the-same, through-rigorous, Travel, travelers-must
More than a third of cargo that comes into the U.S. is on passenger flights. And while air travelers must go through rigorous screening, the cargo that’s loaded onto their planes doesn’t always get the same level of scrutiny.
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How safe is cargo on passenger flights?
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Posted on 07 February 2012. Tags: air, aviation, aviation-workers, enters-its, flights, France, Haul, long-haul, result, Travel, tuesday, workers
Air France expects to cancel nearly half its long haul flights Tuesday as a strike by aviation workers enters its second day.
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Strike in France expected to ground many overseas flights
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Posted on 01 February 2012. Tags: Alaska, ash, ash-cloud, cloud, flights, intercontinental, potentially-threatening, result, Travel
Officials are monitoring a remote Alaska volcano that could launch an ash cloud, potentially threatening intercontinental flights.
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Alaskan volcano could erupt, disrupt air travel
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Posted on 26 December 2011. Tags: air, continued-fees, fares, flights, fuel, prices, prices-may, result, Travel, travel-outlook
Air travel outlook for 2012: Fares and fuel prices may be in flux, but fewer flights and continued fees are practically certain.
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What will 2012 bring in air travel?
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Posted on 21 December 2011. Tags: Commercial, commercial-flights, doing-the-same, flights, get-more, nodding-off-while, pilots, result, soon-may, the-pilots, Travel
Passengers nodding off while on commercial flights soon may get more assurance that the pilots aren't doing the same thing.
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FAA to announce final pilot fatigue rule
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Posted on 05 December 2011. Tags: air, air-shrouding, authorities, Beijing, expressways, flights, forced-authorities, result, state-media
Thick air shrouding Beijing forced authorities to cancel flights and close expressways, state media reported Monday.
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Authorities cancel flights as haze shrouds Beijing
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Posted on 02 December 2011. Tags: amendment, aphernalia-at-home, flights, may-want, paraphernalia, purses, risk, second-amendment, security, security-risk, Travel
Flying fashionistas with a thing for the Second Amendment may want to leave their gun-themed purses and other paraphernalia at home, lest they be flagged as a security risk and miss their flights.
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Gun-themed purse delays teen flier
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Posted on 22 November 2011. Tags: aircraft, aircraft-while, busiest, days, flights, Holiday, holiday-travel, result, sky, the-busiest, Travel, whether-or-not
More than 5,000 flights may be in the sky at once on the busiest holiday travel days. Passengers often ask me if pilots are aware of other nearby aircraft while in flight, and whether or not they ever come “too close for comfort”. The answers in order are yes and rarely.
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Pilot: Don’t fret about crowded skies
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Posted on 14 November 2011. Tags: airline, become-the-first, Carriers, flights, intercontinental, Internet, other-carriers, result, Travel, will-soon
United will soon become the first U.S. airline to provide Internet on intercontinental flights. Will other carriers follow?
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Wi-Fi coming to international flights
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