Archive for the 'Airlines' Category

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. […]

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 […]

Hole In Jet Fuselage Causes Emergency Landing

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 […]

FAA New Staff Recruitment

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 […]