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...NTSB was especially keen to have the boxes installed on Boeing 737s. Investigations of two accidents involving B-737s--one outside Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1991 and the other in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1994--have been seriously hampered by the lack of this information. Instead of pressing the airlines to find an economical way to install new black boxes and instead of sending its own investigators to challenge the airlines' assessment of the cost, the FAA simply embraced the carriers' argument that the project would be too pricey...
...expects to have 48--70% of its fleet--by 2009. "The economics were there," he says. "And as fuel goes up, we just look smarter and smarter." The Q400 might allow the regional to go up against low-cost, short-haul king Southwest and its fleet of Boeing 737s...
...will also be able to either splash down in the water as the Apollos did or thump down under a parachute on dry desert. Finally, modern composite materials and computers will improve on the ungainly weight and clanking brain of the older ships. "It's like comparing today's 737s with the ones that flew in 1967," says Scott Horowitz, an associate administrator for NASA. "Put them side by side, and they look alike. But they're entirely different aircraft...
...primary hub.Leonard and president Bob Fornaro built AirTran on the ashes of ValuJet, which suffered a fatal crash in the Florida Everglades in 1996. In 2003, when aircraft prices hit rock bottom, they made a decision that looks prophetic today: they ordered 100 fuel-efficient, long-range Boeing 737s. Fornaro says the airline is burning 25% less fuel than it was five years ago. AirTran reported net income of $11.4 million on $366.3 million in revenue in the second quarter. Delta lost $382 million, and Northwest lost $225 million...
...Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole approved the Pacific routes that United bought from Pan Am in April for $750 million. And in Chicago, United announced that it was buying 116 planes worth $3.1 billion from Boeing. Included on United's shopping list were six jumbo 747s and 110 small Boeing 737s, which are used for shorter hops. Some of the 747s are specially equipped to carry 400 passengers and fly a range of 8,000 miles, ideal for flights across the Pacific...