Armenia is a very ancient country with a history of thousands of years. This magnificent country is like an open-air museum of a great number of churches and monuments. There are plenty of churches, as Armenia is the first country to adopt Christianity as a state religion in 301 AD. If you happen to be [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s has become common that many airlines either charge extra fees for services, that were previously free, or just cut some of their services, to cut back expenses. However strange it may sound, Air New Zealand is doing just the opposite. There is now already a new concierge service available during some of the airline’s [...]
While Midwest Airlines and its Midwest Connect regional carrier are dropping flights to Baltimore, Fort Lauderdale and Fort Myer, AirTran Airways, on the contrary, is expected to add its services from Milwaukee to Baltimore and to several Florida destinations – a reaction to coming service cuts by Midwest Airlines. AirTran’s new schedule to Florida will [...]
The artistic director of the Manhattan Theater Club is suing Continental Airlines for one of the crew’s rudeness toward her. She is claiming that his behavior caused her much hardship and humiliation and escalated to her detention and interrogation by the FBI for destroying airline property, which she is denying. The incident happened last August, [...]
In a news release on July 8, 2008, Southwest announced it’s plans of joining the international market by entering a relationship with WestJet, Canada’s leading airline. While the rest of the US airline companies are faltering and constantly raising flight costs to be able to keep up with the rising oil prices, Southwest, who is [...]