United Airlines is paying $6.15 million to settle a lawsuit by pilots who claimed that the airline underpaid for contributions to their pension accounts while they were on military leave. The settlement covers 1,160 pilots who took military leave between 2000 and 2010. A federal judge in Denver approved the agreement this month. James Tuten, …
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Boeing Celebrates The 8,000th 737
As Boeing prepares to increase the production rate of “the best-selling jet airliner in the history of aviation” to 42 airplanes-a-month, employees in the program recently took a short break from building the planes to celebrate their latest successes. The 8,000th 737 took to the skies on April 9, 2014, on the 47th anniversary of …
Frontier Airlines Adds Six New Cities from Cleveland – Frontier Airlines Newsroom
Frontier Airlines Adds Nonstop Service from Cleveland to Six New Cities, this is exciting news indeed! Maybe Cleveland is the MidWest hub Frontier needs and wants! Fly to Atlanta, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Phoenix, Raleigh-Durham, and Tampa with amazing fares at FlyFrontier.com DENVER (March 11, 2014) – Frontier Airlines today announced it will add six …
Biman Bangledesh retires the DC-10 in favor of the 777 | Airchive
BIRMINGHAM UK, February 20 Airchive – The final scheduled commercial DC-10 flight landed on Thursday February 20th, 2014, ending a forty plus year run of scheduled passenger service around the world. The first scheduled DC-10 flight took place on August 5, 1971, on an American Airlines round trip between Los Angeles and Chicago. The …