Archive for November, 2008

Kit Kat Surprise

Has it ever occurred to you that an everyday snack, let us say, a small Kit-Kat, will be of great importance to you? Believe it or not, it is indeed sometimes.
Recently, a French flight attendant found a winning code for a competition to fly into sub-orbital space on board a new spacecraft in her Kit-Kat.
She […]

Midwest Workforce Reduction

Continuous job cuts are still actively in progress.
Airlines seem to be reducing as many employees as they can for the sake of their companies. The so-called “best care in the air,” Midwest Airlines, announced on Monday that it is going to cut via furloughs and layoffs almost 40 percent of its current workforce–about 1,200 employees. […]

Laptops Lost At Airports

Nowadays it seems like security systems are delivering high level services everywhere, protecting the possessions of customers and employees.
However, strange as it may sound, airports are not that protected, as many of the largest and medium-sized U.S. airports have recently reported the loss of approximately 637,000 laptops each year, according to the Ponemon Institute survey […]

Northwest’s Emergency Landings

The last few days weren’t very successful for Northwest Airlines. The company endured two emergency flight landings–one on Sunday and the second on Monday. Luckily, there were no injuries.
The reason for the early landing was technically related. The Sunday flight from Tampa to Detroit had to make a landing in Dayton, Ohio because a […]