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Salon.com
May 31, 2000
J A. Getzlaff |
Sexual harassment in the skies Frustrated passenger groped flight attendants   |
Salon.com
July 28, 2000
Elliott Neal Hester |
Out of the Blue Lies in the sky: An inside look at United Airlines' abysmal service. |
Salon.com
May 16, 2000
Elliott Neal Hester |
Eating on the fly Better than anyone, flight attendants know the nightmare that is airline food. |
Search Engine Watch
November 9, 2005
Gary Price |
Real-Time Flight Tracking Want to check on the status of a flight that's currently in the air? The major search engines and other specialized services offer real-time flight tracking services that show you the status of major airline flights. |
Salon.com
August 11, 2000
Elliott Neal Hester |
Straitjacket for the skies To immobilize air ragers, airlines try on the handcuffs and straps of the "Body Restraint Package." |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2006
Strauss et al. |
Unsafe At Any Airspeed? Is it safe to use cellphones on airplanes? The U.S. FCC thinks it may be. But here is proof that cellphones and other electronics are more of a risk to maintaining proper airline instrumentation than you think. |
Fast Company
April 2000
Heath Row |
Roadrules - Rule No. 18 Attend to your flight attendants. |
Salon.com
December 14, 2000
Elliott Neal Hester |
Common cattle Every now and then, flight attendants must fly with the unwashed masses. It sucks... |
Salon.com
July 12, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Up, locked, and loaded Should guns be allowed in the cockpit? Possibly, says Salon's aviation expert, but not at the expense of other solutions to air terror. |
CRM
January 2013
Marshall Lager |
Flying Colors? Consider what your flight attendants can control before giving them attitude. Airline travel makes me think about customer experience. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Tech Glitches Ground United Airlines Flights Nationwide Domestic departures were delayed more than a half hour because of what appears to be incorrect "dispatching information" in the airline's computer systems. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2006 |
NASA Tests Clear View for Pilots In an effort to make flying safer, more than a dozen NASA, airline, industry, and government pilots are testing technology to synthetically give pilots a clear view of their surroundings. |
Salon.com
February 20, 2002
Amy Standen |
Too Bizzaro for words Richard Bizzaro could serve 20 years for disrupting a recent Delta flight. Was he actually acting out the heroic impulses we're supposed to be cultivating? |
CIO
September 14, 2012
Kim S. Nash |
Tablets for Flight Attendants on American Airlines In an effort to get closer to customers and improve sales, American Airlines is launching a new mobile strategy aimed at boosting customer loyalty by giving flight attendants tablets loaded with customer data. |
Salon.com
July 28, 2000
Stephen Yafa |
Unfriendly skies Passengers who try to fly on United are ending up as casualties of a labor war between the airline's management and its "employee owners." |
The Motley Fool
September 17, 2004
Rich Smith |
Airbus Hears You Now Boeing's rival will let you keep your cell phones turned on. |
Salon.com
July 14, 2000
Elliott Neal Hester |
Robbery at 30,000 feet Adventures in real-life airplane stickups. (And you thought hijacking hardly happened anymore.) |
Popular Mechanics
September 2007
David Noland |
10 Plane Crashes That Changed Aviation Here are eight crashes and two emergency landings whose influence is felt -- for the good -- each time you step on a plane. |
The Motley Fool
May 31, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Quick Take: Bankruptcy Grounded at Northwest The airline exits bankruptcy on a new deal with its flight attendants. |
National Defense
March 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Taking 'Heads-Up' Displays to the Next Level Scientists are developing technologies to give aviators better in-flight information on wearable displays that untether them from stationary screens. |
Salon.com
November 3, 2000
Elliott Neal Hester |
When pigs fly A smuggled swine raises a ruckus on a cross-country flight... |
Salon.com
September 8, 2000
Elliott Neal Hester |
The flight attendant from hell Finally, the time had come for me to face Big Bertha -- the airborne antichrist. |
Scientific American
July 2006 |
Cell Phones on a Plane Recent research indicates that there may be sound safety reasons to continue the existing FCC and Federal Aviation Administration prohibitions on cell phone use in the air. |
The Motley Fool
February 1, 2005
Tim Beyers |
United Set to Fly Again? The airline extracts major concessions from pilots and flight attendants, but a conflict with mechanics could still sink the company. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2008
Tekla S. Perry |
Airlines: Got Fuel? Airlines are now putting the minimum amount of fuel in planes necessary to reach their destination, but are they underestimating the amount they need? |
Fast Company
January 2005
Haley & Clayton |
Mystery In The Air Are you reading this on a plane? You may want to skip the item about how clean that airline blanket really is. |
Salon.com
October 25, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot Flying Beech 99's, ogling Gulf Air's stunning stewardesses and other career highlights. Plus: What are the scariest airports? |
Salon.com
July 18, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot Do airlines cut down the flow of oxygen in the cabin to save fuel? Can wind shear rip off a plane's wing? |
Salon.com
August 2, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot Can it really get too hot to fly? And what was it like to be in the air on Sept. 11? |
PC Magazine
August 11, 2008
Logan Kugler |
8 Tricks to Beat Airport Delays These Web sites and flight tracking tools will help you get a leg up on other passengers and avoid getting stranded. |
Salon.com
June 16, 2000
Elliott Neal Hester |
Out of the Blue: The delinquent-flier upgrade Like high-altitude ninjas, they abandon the crowded coach cabin for an unoccupied seat in first class. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2006 |
Italy's Air One Chooses Teledyne Systems for A320 Feet Italy's second-largest airline has selected the Flight Data Interface Management Unit and Wireless GroundLink Quick Access Recorder from Teledyne Controls to automate the recording and transmission of flight data for its new Airbus single-aisle aircraft fleet. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2006 |
Plane Talk About Cellphones With the first U.S. auction for radio spectrum for consumer broadband use while in the air on the horizon, the FCC's overall move in the direction of relaxing the ban on the use of personal electronics during flight has made some folks happy -- and many others worried. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2005 |
Boeing picks display to upgrade Dutch KC-10 Under a $900,000 order from Boeing's Wichita Development and Modification Center, ISS will deliver its Primary Flight Display System as part of the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) cockpit upgrade program. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
iPad Glitch Grounds Dozens Of American Airlines Flights American Airlines began issuing iPads with a dedicated app to pilots and copilots back in 2013 to replace heavy paper manuals and flight plans. Yesterday, those iPads crashed. |
CRM
May 31, 2011
Brittany Farb |
Passengers Are Increasingly Dissatisfied with Air Travel A new study shows customers are uncomfortable and inconvenienced. |
Knowledge@Wharton
February 12, 2003 |
A Sweet Song? Delta Aims at the Low-Fare Market With a new staff and new attitude, Delta is hoping to break into the burgeoning low-fare air travel market to an extent that United, American and Continental haven't been able to achieve. |
Inc.
March 2004
Norm Brodsky |
Street Smarts: Learning From JetBlue One day flying JetBlue, I found myself being served by David Neeleman, the airline's founder. When was the last time you met your customers and asked how you could better serve them? |
Popular Mechanics
August 7, 2009
Michael Belfiore |
The Truth About Airplane Turbulence If you're like some of the 26 injured passengers on Continental Airlines Flight 128 last Monday (or the two people on Delta Airlines Flight 2871 last Tuesday) and you're not buckled in during turbulence, you could meet the ceiling with unpleasant results. |
Salon.com
October 16, 2001
Dennis Riches |
Get rid of first class! Putting an end to preferential treatment for the jet set will help thwart hijackers and save the environment... |
Salon.com
November 13, 2001
Damien Cave |
"It couldn't have come at a worse time" Former Transportation Secretary Sam Skinner explains how the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 will affect the air travel industry... |
CIO
July 1, 2002
Stephanie Overby |
JetBlue Skies Ahead The founders of JetBlue Airways use IT as the backbone of their "high-tech, high-touch" startup. Can you say, "last-mover advantage"? |
InternetNews
December 28, 2004
Jim Wagner |
Comair Faces Government Investigation The U.S. Department of Transportation wants to know why Delta Air Lines subsidiary Comair's system crashed on some of the busiest traveling days of the year. |
Salon.com
November 22, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot The science of weighing airplanes. And, how many things can go wrong with a jet before it's not allowed to fly? |
Inc.
November 2003
Robert X. Cringely |
Flight Club Forget the company car. Getting around is faster -- and less expensive than you may think -- in a private plane. |
The Motley Fool
July 6, 2005
Chuck Saletta |
Great Brands Are Tough to Beat Airlines lack brand loyalty, and their dreadful finances bear that out. Value investors avoid companies like these. |
InternetNews
December 27, 2004
Jim Wagner |
Comair Back in Air After Computer Outage The airline is back in business after severe snow sidelined planes and caused a Christmas computer outage. |
Salon.com
October 11, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot Ugly airplanes... Pilot promotions... Why do seat backs have to be in their "full upright position" for takeoff and landing?... etc. |
Salon.com
October 20, 2000
Elliott Neal Hester |
When passengers rage She hated my guts and ached to put me in a headlock, but I swear I never meant to send her to Barbados... |
Geotimes
September 2005 |
Discovery Returns to Flight The space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off at 10:39 a.m. on July 26, successfully returning NASA to flight after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus. |
