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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Things happen in every day life. Sometimes they make people feel good, and sometimes they’re so frustrating that we change our opinion about security worldwide. As was recently reported, a jet had to land because of a large hole on the right side of the plane near the wing.
A Boeing used by Qantas, the world’s [...]
As time passes, people get older and retire, so accordingly companies need new specialists in their fields of work. Worried by the high number of veteran air traffic controllers who are hitting retirement age, the Federal Aviation Administration is busy recruiting, among other places, in high schools.
The FAA has also begun its recruitment efforts [...]
Sometimes strange things happen on board planes. Some passengers are kicked off flights for their negligence to the personnel, being dropped off somewhere before their final destination, others have complaints concerning the in-service or the crew’s rudeness.
An American Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles was diverted to Oklahoma City on Friday after a passenger [...]
Sometimes people say that authorities have a much better attitude towards celebrities, rather than ordinary people. But as it turns out, it’s not always so, or at least in the case of Delta flights.
As GADLING reports, there was not any rudeness on the part of Carlos Olivero. He turned off his iPod, but refused to [...]
Texas, the second largest state in the United States both in territory and population, draws a lot of tourists from all over the world each year. The name Texas means “friendship,” and I think it’s not by chance. Not only are tourists the welcome guests of this wonderful state. There are also a lot of [...]