Category Archives: Airplane

Airline groups oppose fees in Obama’s deficit plan

By doris | Published: September 28, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com DALLAS — Airline trade groups are fighting President Barack Obama’s plan to raise fees on airlines and passengers to pay for aviation security and air-traffic control. The airlines say security is a national-defense function and they pay an unfair share. The administration argues that those who use the air-travel system — [...]

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Obama signs bill ending partial FAA shutdown

By doris | Published: August 5, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama signed legislation Friday temporarily restoring full funding to the Federal Aviation Administration, breaking a political impasse and allowing roughly 4,000 furloughed federal employees to return to work. The measure also promises to restore tens of thousands of jobs in the construction industry and elsewhere tied [...]

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Watching DVD player gets 2 Cleveland air traffic officials suspended

By doris | Published: April 19, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Atlanta (CNN) — The Federal Aviation Administration on Monday announced the suspension of a Cleveland air traffic controller and a front line manager after the controller was discovered watching a movie on a portable DVD player while on the job. The announcement coincides with the Monday launch in Atlanta of a [...]

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Pentagon: US-led strikes help rebels retake city

By doris | Published: March 26, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON – A barrage of U.S.-led airstrikes opened the door for Libyan rebels to retake the eastern city of Ajdabiya Saturday, handing President Barack Obama a tangible example of progress as he defends the military action to war-weary Americans. The administration has been under pressure to better explain why the U.S. [...]

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Libya no-fly zone widening; Gadhafi not targeted

By doris | Published: March 21, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON – The opening phase of U.S. and coalition military action in Libya bruised Moammar Gadhafi’s ground forces and set the stage for extending a no-fly zone across the country, but American officials made clear Monday their military goals stop short of targeting Gadhafi or directly assisting rebel forces. Army Gen. [...]

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Obama in Afghanistan on unannounced trip

By doris | Published: December 6, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Speaking to nearly 4,000 U.S. troops here after a secret overnight flight from Washington, President Barack Obama on Friday said they were making “important progress” against militants in Afghanistan. “Today we can be proud that there are fewer areas under Taliban control,” he said.

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Oops: Air Force sends tanker bid details to rivals

By doris | Published: November 20, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON – The Air Force mistakenly gave rival companies sensitive information that contained each other’s confidential bids in a long-standing, multibillion dollar competition to build a new refueling tanker. Chicago-based Boeing Co., and the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), parent of Airbus, are in an intense competition for a [...]

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PROMISES, PROMISES: FAA fatigue rules finally near

By doris | Published: September 9, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON – After a regional airliner crashed in western New York a year and a half ago, killing 50 people, the Obama administration promised swift action to prevent similar tragedies. High on the list: new rules governing the number of hours pilots may work, to prevent tired flight crews from making [...]

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Report on failed Christmas terror attack released

By doris | Published: January 9, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com The government had sufficient information to have potentially disrupted an al Qaeda plot to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day, but failed to identify Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab as a potential bomber, a White House review of the incident shows. In the end, the six-page report found, it was the inability of [...]

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Sources: Feds scrambling to find additional air marshals

By doris | Published: January 8, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The federal government is scrambling to find ways to comply with President Obama’s order to put more air marshals on flights after a botched Christmas Day airline terrorist attack, government sources have told CNN. Hundreds of additional marshals could be “loaned” from the Secret Service and U.S. Customs [...]

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