Pakistan’s national airline announced Tuesday that it had slashed its flights to Europe by nearly 50 percent after the European Union barred most of its planes due to safety concerns.
The EU’s executive commission said Monday it would allow Pakistan International Airlines to use only its seven Boeing 777 planes on services to EU airports due to worries about the age and maintenance of its other long-haul aircraft.
source: BusinessWeek
N.C. Officials say a problem with a computerized reservation system has caused delays for at least 500 U-S Airways passengers this morning at the airline’s largest hub.
Airline spokesman Phil Gee says passengers in Charlotte, North Carolina, faced delays of up to an hour and a-half when U-S Airways’ automated kiosks didn’t work.
Delays also occurred at Philadelphia International Airport.
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JetBlue Airways has taken a beating in recent days, facing withering criticism for cancellations and delays wrought by a winter storm last week.
But investors should remember an important facet about airlines, analysts say: “‘Our view is that these things happen in the airline industry, and that at the end of the day, customers will return to JetBlue,'” Merrill Lynch analyst Michael Linenberg wrote in a recent research report.
An icy winter blast helped lead to over 1,000 canceled flights for New York-based JetBlue and tales of woe from some passengers who were stuck on planes for hours. Its stock has wobbled since the Feb. 14 storm hit.
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Low cost fares, quirky blue potato chips and even a mea culpa from JetBlue Airways’ founder may not be enough to ease passenger anxiety Monday as the airline braces for another day of disrupted flights.
The company said it would be canceling almost a quarter of the day’s flights but hopes to be fully operational on Tuesday, almost a week after a Valentine’s Day snowstorm created a meltdown for the airline.
David G. Neeleman, the company’s founder and chief executive, said he was “humiliated and mortified” by the breakdown in the airline’s operations. He promised in an interview with The New York Times for its Monday editions that in the future the company would pay penalties to customers should they be stranded on a plane for too long.
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As an ice storm stranded JetBlue airplanes for up to 10½ hours, passengers sat within sight of the terminal without food, adequate restrooms or a reasonable explanation as to why they weren’t moving.
They could have been evacuated much sooner if the airline hadn’t waited so long to ask airport officials for help. JetBlue acknowledged Thursday that it hesitated nearly five hours before calling in shuttle buses to unload 10 jets that spent much of Wednesday sitting on runways because of icy weather and gate congestion.
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Data released by the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington revealed airline delays hit record highs in 2006 due to weather concerns.
U.S. flights were delayed by 22.1 million minutes last year, exceeding the high totals for 1999 and 2000, when thunderstorm-related delays prompted threats against airlines from irate passengers and Congress, USA Today reported Friday.
The high number of 2006 delays meant 22 percent of flights on major airlines from the start of the year until November were delayed for at least 15 minutes. The majority of late flights were at New York’s three airports, the FAA records show.
British Airways was today forced to cancel virtually all of its flights out of London next Tuesday and Wednesday because of a strike by more than 11,000 cabin crew.
In a dramatic move, the airline scrapped all of its 550 flights from Heathrow and a further 170 from Gatwick.
Only six long-haul flights will still go ahead, from Gatwick. It means more than 150,000 passengers booked to fly with BA during the two strike days have been left with their winter holidays and business trips in ruins.
source: ThisIsLondon.co.uk
Bristol international airport is enduring a third day of disruption, with over 100 flights due to be cancelled or diverted over safety fears.
Ten airlines are now planning to cancel flights or divert them to Cardiff and Birmingham airports after concerns that the newly resurfaced runway is too slippery for aircraft in wet weather.
The disruption has caused a row between airport bosses and airline chiefs, with Bristol airport insisting that the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has given the runway a “‘clean bill of health'”.
Paul Davies, the airport’s operations director, said: “‘Safety is paramount, and if Bristol international or the CAA believed there were issues with our runway we would of course take suitable action.'”
source: inthenews.co.uk
Many flights from Bristol international airport have been cancelled, causing disruption for travellers.
Three airlines have cancelled flights or have diverted passengers to Cardiff over concerns that the newly resurfaced runway is too slippery for aircraft in wet weather. British Airways, XL Airways and easyJet are worried that their vehicles may not be able to brake upon landing on the runway.
For a second consecutive day, budget airline easyJet has cancelled a number of flights from the airport.
The airline, headed by Stelios Haji-Ioannou, released a statement saying: “The safety of our passengers, crew and aircraft is the top priority at easyJet and these decisions have been taken following extensive discussions with Bristol international airport and the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).”
source: Manchester.com
Hundreds of flights left Denver’s beleaguered airport on Christmas Eve with many passengers who had been stranded when a two-day blizzard shut down the runways last week.
The airport’s two biggest airlines, United and Frontier, said they flew full schedules of a combined 1,200 flights Sunday. They had a similar schedule Saturday as travelers around the country whose itineraries were wrecked by the storm raced to get home.
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