Airline News - North America.Oct 23, 2006 Air Line Pilots Assn. elected a new president, signaling that its members are "prepared to move into a new period of strong, concerted action to rebuild their profession," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the union. John Prater prate v. prat·ed, prat·ing, prates v.intr. To talk idly and at length; chatter. v.tr. To utter idly or to little purpose. n. , a 767 captain with Continental Airlines, narrowly defeated two-term, eight-year incumbent Duane Woerth. "After five years of concessionary bargaining, lost pensions and battered work rules, our pilots are primed to take offensive action," Prater said. "This may mean a return to the hard-nosed tactics of earlier years and a grassroots mobilization of each and every one of our members." Prater, a 28-year member of ALPA ALPA abbr. Air Line Pilots Association , won by a 24,444-23,524 vote margin and will assume office in January. Oct 20, 2006 US Dept. of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), as part of the United States Department of Transportation, compiles, analyzes, and makes accessible information on the nation's transportation systems; collects information on intermodal transportation and other areas as needed; and reported that the compensation (salary plus benefits). network carriers reduced their annual compensation cost gap to $7,514 compared to $22,139 in 2001. Oct 16, 2006 Air Canada Air Canada will operate a daily Montreal-Rome Fiumicino service from June 1 to Sept. 30, 2007, aboard a 767-200ER. Oct 16, 2006 American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the American Airlines let TV cameras from CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. have a week-long peek at its inner workings, and the result is a two-hour documentary that aired Wednesday night, the Wall Street Journal reports. It's more detailed than the drama you see on A&E's "Airline," which chronicles life at several Southwest Airlines This article is about the American airline. For the former Japanese airline, see Japan Transocean Air. For the British airline, see Air Southwest. Southwest Airlines Co. terminals. And it's part of what appears to be a growing trend-airline as reality show. For carriers, there appears to be a benefit in letting customers see how the sausage gets made. Customers get to appreciate the challenges of coordinating thousands of flights every day and dealing with disruptions, medical emergencies and baggage-belt breakdowns. Southwest has seen an increase in job applications by airing its work. The CNBC special, called "Inside American Airlines: A Week in the Life," covers familiar ground for frequent travelers, from how difficult it is to get a frequent-flier-award seat at the lowest mileage-redemption levels to a history of labor woes. But it has some bits of enlightenment for viewers-an insider's window on an airline scramble to accommodate passengers when bad weather and mechanical problems arise, a sobering look at the lack of cargo-security screening and a lesson in practicality when a mechanic spends his days sharpening For image sharpening, see . Sharpening is the process of creating or refining a sharp edge on a tool or implement. The term has a wide application but can be expressed as the creation of two intersecting planes which produce an edge that is sharp enough to cut through the target old tools back to life to save $1 million annually. Oct 18, 2006 United Airlines United Airlines will launch daily Washington Dulles-Rome Fiumicino service on April 1 aboard a 777. Oct 20, 2006 Z Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/onlinenews.htm To Subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com Oct 16, 2006 |
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