A jet belonging to Ernest Angley Ministries “landed hard” at the Akron-Canton Airport on Tuesday afternoon. Kristie Van Auken, spokeswoman for the airport, said the plane and tire debris were quickly removed from the runway. Commercial flights were not interrupted by the incident, which happened around noon. Five people were on board and no one …
Monthly Archive: September 2011
Southwest to link network with AirTran – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Southwest Airlines, which is launching service at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in February, plans to also link its route network with merger partner AirTran Airways early next year, opening up more connecting flight options to and from Atlanta. Southwest Chief Executive Gary Kelly acknowledged, though, that some of AirTran’s less-frequent routes and subsidized routes don’t fit …
Air Canada union talks break off; strike looms – Reuters
Talks between Air Canada (ACb.TO) and its flight attendants’ union broke down late on Monday, a source close to the negotiations said, making a strike at Canada’s biggest airline a near certainty beginning Wednesday. “Talks have broken off,” the source said. Neither Air Canada nor the Canadian Union for Public Employees (CUPE), which represents 6,800 …
Britain From Above – Air Traffic » Contrail Science
There’s a great new series on the BBC in the UK: Britain From Above, that shows how various things look from a high perspective, using very interesting visualization techniques. One of the most interesting (for me) was an episode that showed all the air traffic in UK airspace in a 24 hour period. That involved …