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Once upon a time, when Maurice Flanagan was working at the airport in Nairobi, wet weather meant one thing: it was time to jump into his car and drive quickly up and down the clay runway. If his wheels got stuck, he would wave off any approaching airplane. He has...
For more than four decades the Federal Aviation Administration has forced airline pilots to retire at age 60. The so-called "Age 60 rule" was adopted with virtually no medical data to support it then, and, critics say, it remains in place today despite studies that show that older fliers...
Now the big guns are coming out. Next week, TIME has learned, Southwest Airlines will file a friend of the court brief in support of the pilots' challenge. For Southwest, one of the nation's biggest airlines and one which, remarkably, has never had a fatal accident in its thirty...
So while politicians in Washington fail to make significant strides in curbing congestion, one airport is taking matters into its own hands. Next week, Logan Airport in Boston will begin monitoring airline delays during its rush hours (mostly 4-7 pm) to see if airlines are over scheduling flights. Logan...
Of course, Airlines are unhappy with Logan's proposed program and fear that it will be replicated at other large airports. ?This is the wrong way to go,? says David Berg, general counsel of the Air Transport Association, the airlines? Washington lobbying group. ?The real solution is more runways.? But...