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When ATA Airlines filed for bankruptcy, Thursday, it immediately and without warning halted all flights; after 35 years in operation, the airline Thursday left its passengers stranded and nearly all of its 2,200 employees are now unemployed. The sudden stoppage was explained by ATA in a statement that said FedEx had cancelled a charter agreement […]

Facing a deadline to meet a target on its route from Norwich, England, to Dublin, local airline Flybe paid 172 temp workers to fill the seats, Reuters reported on Monday. The airline had to transport at least 15,000 passengers on the route in the 12 months ending on Monday, or it would forfeit a 280,000-pound […]

The annual Archie League Awards given out by the National Air Traffic Controllers Association are a stark reminder that every time we launch into the big sky, we face the unexpected — and sometimes the voice at the other end of the radio can be a lifeline. The awards, named after the first air traffic […]

“This is an incredibly dark day for Hawaii,” said David Banmiller, Aloha Airlines‘ president and chief executive officer, as the airline completed its last flight on Monday, after 61 years of operation. “We simply ran out of time to find a qualified buyer or secure continued financing for our passenger business,” he said. Banmiller blamed […]

The FAA and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association announced on Monday that they will work together to implement a new safety plan. The Air Traffic Safety Action Program is designed to “foster a voluntary, cooperative, non-punitive environment for the open reporting of safety-of-flight concerns by employees of the FAA,” according to a joint FAA/NATCA […]

The federal Bureau of Reclamation, which closed off seaplane access to hundreds of lakes in a 2006 rule, has announced it will revise that regulation, the Seaplane Pilots Association said last week. The 2006 rule, which cited security concerns, closed over 400 lakes in 17 Western states to seaplane operations. Many of those lakes had […]

Click to see the image at FlightAware Thanks to modern avionics and FlightAware, a whole new art form is developing. A Cessna Citation X used the Midwest as its canvas and few hundred gallons of jet fuel as its palette to recreate the company logo on this March 7 flight. Duration was four hours and […]

The pilot of a Citation that crashed in Farnborough, England last week is being hailed as a hero for steering the doomed aircraft around a hospital, apartment buildings and a playing field full of children before it clipped two houses and exploded without hurting anyone on the ground. Mike Roberts and four others on board […]

Cessnas heart may be in Kansas but its corporate wallet is on Wall Street and thats what will determine where the new Columbus 850 will be built. The company, which claims to have $11 billion in backorders, wants $25 million in cash from the state to build the new plant, which will employ about 1,000 […]

Despite repeated warnings from the FAA that it has no intention of letting Santa Monica get away with it, the city council there has effectively shortened the single runway at Santa Monica Airport by declaring stretches of pavement at each end as runway safety areas (RSAs). That will effectively shorten the runway to the point […]