Apparently fed up with deteriorating on-time performance, Federal Aviation Administration chief Marion Blakey has a message for U.S. airlines: Cut back your schedules or Washington might do it for you. “The airlines need to take a step back on scheduling…
One of the best stories on this past week’s round of delays and cancellations comes from The Star-Ledger of Newark. The paper puts the nationwide delay problem into perspective by taking a look at how airlines dealt with yesterday’s storms…
Canceled flights, lost luggage and getting stuck in Chicago on your way to a dream vacation in Paris. It’s nobody’s idea of summer fun, that’s from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which writes one of the many stories this week about what’s…
That’s the question asked by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (free registration), which writes that because airplane loads are so full this summer, when flights are canceled, hundreds of passengers must compete for just a few extra seats on later flights….
From crew shortages at Northwest to widespread weather-related problems, this past week has been a rough one for air travelers. And that could just be tip of the iceberg, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The paper writes aviation experts…
New York’s three commercial airports - LaGuardia, JFK and Newark - are among the nation’s worst for on-time flights. The Associated Press notes that 38% of all flights at the airports were either late or canceled between January and April,…
Meteorologists start everything around here. That quote comes Monte Ford, senior vice president and the chief information officer at American, who tells The Washington Post (free registration) that the first thing he asks his staff each morning is what the…
United Airlines has a new policy for long ground delays. The Denver Post writes that United said it now aims to limit taxi-out delays on the ground before takeoff to three hours or less and limit taxi-in delays on the…
Hoping to help speed travelers to their destinations during what’s expected to be a record summer for air travel, The Associated Press writes that the Federal Aviation Administration plans to expand the use of an air traffic control strategy intended…
Proponents of a passengers’ bill of rights likely will be happy with developments in New York. The New York State Senate unanimously approved legislation that would require airplanes stuck on the ground for more than three hours because of poor…