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Flying while pregnant hinges on due date
Who wants to deliver a baby on an airplane?
Answer: No one. Not the mother-to-be and not the flight attendants, pilots or passengers.
That's why most airlines have fairly strict requirements for women who travel near the end of their pregnancies. Even...Tags: U.S. Airways, Air Transportation, Morning Sickness, County Road 46 (Suffolk, New York), United Air Lines
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AMR, American Airlines file for bankruptcy
American Airlines and its parent company AMR Corp filed for bankruptcy Tuesday after failing to win a labor deal with pilots and suffering from mounting fuel costs.
AMR had been the only major U.S. carrier to avoid bankruptcy in the past decade. Its...Tags: Bankruptcy, Air Transportation, Unions, County Road 46 (Suffolk, New York), United Air Lines
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Food service in the air -- from peanuts to pesto
Special To The SunTo buy or not to buy -- that is the question that plagues some airline passengers who aren't certain whether they are going to get fed on their flights. Nowadays, airlines show in-flight food options on their Web sites. Sometimes, the carriers will...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Salads, U.S. Airways, Sandwiches, Air Transportation
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Customer satisfaction
The annual airline quality ratings, according to the University of Nebraska at Omaha Aviation Institute and the W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University. The ratings are based on 15 elements considered important to consumers. 1....Tags: AirTran, U.S. Airways, Air Transportation, Colleges and Universities, United Air Lines
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Airlines
Here is a list of selected national and international airlines that offer flights out of major cities in the United States. In some cases, an airline may not have its own mileage award program, but it may partner with another airline. Note: "FF" denotes...Tags: AirTran, U.S. Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd., Air Transportation, Air Transportation Industry
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Bailout pays airlines for years of bad management
AS HE pursued his doomed merger with United Airlines earlier this year, US Airways chief executive Rakesh Gangwal said "there is no Plan B" if regulators were to block the deal. Thank goodness, then, for Plan C: Using the terrorist attacks in New York...Tags: Philadelphia 76ers, Unions, Disasters, National Government, Financially Distressed Companies
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Airlines ground 20% of schedule; workers laid off
From Wire ReportsAirlines imposed drastic cutbacks yesterday in an effort to avoid bankruptcy after last week's terrorist attacks, with three major carriers slicing schedules by 20 percent and Continental Airlines laying off 12,000, or one-fifth of its work force. The...Tags: Laws, Defense, National Government, Financially Distressed Companies, Employees
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Island adoption market delivers pain and profit
Sun StaffMAJURO, Marshall Islands - With four young children and a fifth on the way, a visibly pregnant Neji Johnny was an easy target for a recruiter for Adoption Choices, an American agency that scours the poverty-scarred streets of this remote Western Pacific...Tags: Laws, Honolulu, Colleges and Universities, Defense, Adoption
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SARS creates turbulence for Asian airlines
Associated PressHONG KONG - While airlines around the world battled insolvency and fretted over the war in Iraq, Asian-based carriers rode out the industry's latest downturn a bit more smoothly. Then along came SARS. Asia's aviation industry has been pitched into what...Tags: Bankruptcy, Iraq, Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd., Marketing
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US Air to lay off 11,000, cut schedule
Sun StaffThe financial devastation hitting the airline industry hit home yesterday as US Airways Group Inc., the second-biggest operator at Baltimore-Washington International Airport, said it will cut about 11,000 jobs and trim its flight schedule by 23 percent....Tags: Financially Distressed Companies, AMR Corp., Employees, Heads of State, Unemployment
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Pilots not surprised by airport security breaches
Sun StaffCommercial pilots who crisscross the country daily in jetliners like those used in yesterday's attacks say the terrorists probably included trained pilots, took advantage of lax airport security and carefully chose the flights they hijacked. The pilots...Tags: Defense, Colleges and Universities, Manhattan (New York City), San Francisco, Boeing Co.
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2 teams to develop plans for air travel safety
Sun StaffWith airlines still flying a reduced schedule and struggling financially, Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta announced yesterday that he wants a group of private experts to recommend quickly how air travel can be made safer. Mineta named six...Tags: White House, Air Transportation, Transportation Industry, United Air Lines, Air Transportation Delays
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