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Even the airline industry is warning that this summer will be the busiest on record and asks passengers to prepare for flight delays. But are there more delays than airlines and federal agencies are officially disclosing? Incidents like JetBlue's meltdown last February may be more common than previously thought...
On Feb. 14, 10 JetBlue airplanes sat on the tarmac at New York's JFK Airport for more than nine hours. That incident came less than two months after over a hundred American Airlines and American Eagle planes sat on tarmacs throughout the South for up to 10 hours. Uproar...
One such incident involved American Airlines flight 1348, which was supposed to fly from San Francisco to Dallas on Dec. 29. The flight was among the 69 that American diverted that day because of storms in Texas. Passengers aboard flight 1348 ended up landing in Austin and sitting on a...
But as executive travelers and manufacturers laud the global corporate jet boom, the FAA, airline groups and commercial airlines are less enthused. They contend that not only do corporate jets add to traffic congestion in the airspace, but the six types of taxes that are built into commercial passengers' ticket...
"The airlines pay a disproportionate part of the system," says FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown. "Business jets are an important part of the general aviation category and under the current structure [they] don't pay for the financial system." Commercial airlines and their passengers pay about 95% of the taxes but...