Word: airport
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Johnny Bomaster, 38, had an idea. A certified maintenance-check mechanic for Southwest, he lived just seven miles from the Buffalo airport but couldn't reach it over roads clotted with snow. So he tossed his toolbox onto the back of a snowmobile and zoomed through the drifts to the stranded plane. By next morning, when the runways and roads had been plowed and passengers were streaming through the terminal, Bomaster had thoroughly checked the plane and allowed it to take off fully loaded. (A new storm then stranded him at the airport for an additional 24 hours...
...beyond its work force. It flies point-to-point domestic routes, as opposed to the complex and expensive hub-and-spoke international networks operated by other major airlines. There are no meals served onboard, no bulky drinks carts and no entertainment. Where it makes sense, as at Oakland International Airport in California and Midway Airport in Chicago, Southwest uses less expensive, less crowded secondary airports. It flies only one type of aircraft--the Boeing 737--to reduce maintenance costs and turnaround time, and it contracts out its most intensive maintenance work. That allows the airline to employ only...
...written on a tarot card found at one of the 12 shooting sites, hoping to link it to a specific kind of pen, law-enforcement sources told TIME. Agents dismissed as unrelated a shell casing found in a white box truck at a car-rental agency near Dulles Airport in Virginia. And the FBI is reviewing credit-card receipts from filling stations near the shooting sites, in case the killer staked out his crime scenes and gassed up while he was at it. The latest suspected shooting site was in Ashland, Va., about 80 miles south of Washington, where...
...High-level police sources tell TIME that one Islamic group is of particular interest: Sulawesi-based Laskar Jundullah, the same group al-Qaeda whistle-blower Omar al-Faruq told the CIA he'd helped establish with Agus Dwikarna, an Indonesian businessman. Dwikarna was arrested last March at a Manila airport after security guards found plastic explosives and detonation cables in his suitcase. He's now serving a minimum 10-year sentence in the Philippines...
...charter plane carrying Wellstone, his wife Sheila, daughter Marcia, three staffers and two pilots, went down in a wooded area near Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport, about 175 miles north of Minneapolis. All eight passengers were confirmed dead. Wellstone was on his way to the funeral of the father of a state lawmaker. The plane, identified as a King Air, is a twin-engine turboprop made by Raytheon...