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• GPS could save airlines billions in fuel costs
I think the public deserves that same level of effort for our national airspace system," Robert Sturgell, the acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, said in a recent interview. Straight ahead The planned satellite-driven network ...
• America’s most reliable airlines
We collected five years' worth of data relating to on-time arrival, cancellations, complaints and mishandled baggage from the Aviation Consumer Protection Division of the Department of Transportation. Delays and cancellations, the factors most likely ...
• Feds go forward with NYC airport experiment
It is simply shocking that the DOT is unabashedly continuing this ideological battle despite the staunch opposition from the entire aviation community and the independent finding that the DOT lacks the power under the law to implement the proposal in ...
• FAA faulted for laxness on repair outsourcing
WASHINGTON - Nine U.S. airlines outsourced more than 70 percent of their major aircraft maintenance last year, and federal aviation officials' oversight of repair facilities is lagging, according to a government report. One-fourth of the outsourced ...
• Investigators unsure what caused Spanish crash
The Civil Aviation report into the Aug. 20 accident was similar to a draft leaked to Spanish media three weeks ago. A total of 154 people died in the accident, Spain's worst air disaster in 25 years. Eighteen people survived. The report said wing ...