TSA Secure Flight: Southwest Airlines Ask for Personal Info

Southwest Airlines is introducing Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) Secure Flight program. Southwest frequent flyers are asked to provide full name (matching government-issued photo ID), date of birth, gender, and TSA-issued Redress Number if applicable. The...

Big Cutbacks Coming Soon at American Airlines

In a news release today, AMR Corporation announced significant reductions to its the 2008 domestic flight schedule of its subsidiary, American Airlines, Inc.Those reductions include a fourth-quarter mainline domestic capacity reduction of 11 percent to 12 percent from the...

Trouble in the Air from Heathrow Terminal 5 to American, Who's to Blame?

The wave of troubles affecting Terminal 5 are giving the hiccups to the rest of Heathrow Airport states The Independent.There is talk of airlines seeking compensation as British Airlines is delaying by a few weeks the transfer of flights from Terminal 4 to T5.The UK...

Gas Leak: Flatulence Causes Airline DIversion

"An American Airlines plane made an emergency landing in Nashville after passengers reported the smell of sulphur from burning matches. The matches were found on the seat of a woman who had attempted to conceal the odour of flatulence with the matches, Nashville airport...

American Airlines will offer Wi-Fi access

American Airlines is planning to offer wireless internet access aboard their flights starting in 2008. The cost of the service is still unknown and will be announced when the service is rolled out. "AirCell, the leading wireless data and voice communications provider in...

War Hero Branded a Terrorist for Criticizing Draft-Dodging President

This sort of thing scares the you-know-what out of me. When dissent is considered a threat to security, then democracy has died, period."Professor Walter F. Murphy, a Korean war hero and McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence (emeritus) at Princeton, was delayed while flying...