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• Crazy new airline stunts
The global airline industry has taken a nosedive, suffering some $5 billion in losses in just the past year, according to the International Air Transport Association—the second-worst year (after post-9/11 losses) since the advent of air travel ...
• Aussies protest airport ‘virtual strip search’
The body scanners use a low-level radio frequency to create an image which reveals hidden objects on a person, said the Office of Transport Security (OTS). But the scanners also outline a person's body shape. Airline passenger Samantha Jones told ...
• Woman in human smuggling case gets more jail
Gonzalez Sanchez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport and harbor undocumented immigrants illegally under circumstances that placed the lives of people in jeopardy and caused serious bodily injury and death, according to U.S. Attorney Don ...
• Heads up for holiday fliers
... MOTUs — the financial ones, not the action figures — are suddenly less inclined to spend big bucks on first-class and business-class tickets. “That premium traffic,” says Steve Lott, spokesman for the International Air Transport Association ...
• Two days, two overturned fuel trucks
Officials with Pope Transport Company could not be reached for comment Thursday evening. Federal authorities last month, at the urging of state officials, relaxed restrictions on the number of consecutive hours tanker truck drivers can remain behind ...