BusinessWeek magazine published a non-subscription article about the lawsuit brought by a group of airlines against the FAA last month.
The airlines say that the Federal Aviation Administration bypassed usual rule-making procedures and denied them the right to comment before it notified American Airlines and Continental Airlines Inc. of the new rules in late October.
The petition [...]
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January 6, 2009
UPDATE: Crew rest lawsuit
November 3, 2008
Honeywell, ACSS receive funding to demonstrate ADS-B’s value
The FAA says it wants to speed up the deployment of avionics that can take advantage of ADS-B technology, and is funding a small demonstration project meant to prove the value of having that data in the cockpit. (FAA Press release) The $9 million effort will be conducted by Honeywell and ACSS, and calls for [...]
October 17, 2008
Domestic passenger traffic drops 3.5% in July
The U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics released its most current monthly data on passenger traffic today, and the picture is fairly grim. Total July traffic (year-over-year) declined 2.9%, but that number is a bit misleading because the international portion was up 1.3%. Looking only at the domestic passenger count, traffic was down 3.5%. (The complete [...]
