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...London hotel, says Brendan Gold, T&G's national secretary for civil air transport, "serious negotiations were done." Ahead of BA's move next year into the new $8.5 billion Heathrow Terminal 5, the airline persuaded thousands of ground staff to agree to change their practices. So, while an aircraft tug driver used to leave work before the end of his shift if he had completed his list of tasks, staff at the new terminal will return to their base after each individual job before being assigned another. Such deals, Walsh says, are "evidence of securing agreement without hassle, without...
...wielding police at London's Heathrow airport wasn't about long lines, delays, lost luggage or missed connections. Instead, the protesters - who had demonstrated outside Heathrow all of last week - were trying to draw travelers' attention to the impact on climate change of the carbon gases emitted by the aircraft in which they fly. A placard from one activist at Heathrow expressed it thus: "You Fly, They...
...these successes won't necessarily make NextGen a silver bullet. First is the question of safety. Because the satellite technology lets aircraft maintain shorter distances from each other, planes will be able to fly closer together. Blakey insists the planes will be at safe distances, but for air traffic controllers that's not enough. "We have 1100 fewer air traffic controllers working today than we did on Sept. 11," says Doug Church of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, a union currently in a labor dispute with the FAA. Air traffic controllers are already overworked, Church adds, and NextGen does...
...exact same venue four years later, a floundering John Kerry-weeks away from mortgaging his house to pay for his presidential bid-restarted his campaign with a searing attack on every aspect of George W. Bush's leadership, culminating in this rhetorical right hook: "I know something about aircraft carriers for real. And if George Bush wants to make this election about national security, I have three words for him he'll understand: Bring...
Adan won her strange appellation when one of the U.S. Black Hawk helicopters fell on her house in October 1993, in the middle of a U.N. humanitarian intervention gone disastrously awry. Adan managed to retain a part of the helicopter's remains before everything else inside the aircraft was destroyed or looted. The piece sits in a corner of the courtyard as proof of what she has gone through and her small but emotional part in the country's history...