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...January of this year, Atta hopped a flight from Miami to Madrid. It's unclear why he went, and when he returned to Miami International Airport on Jan. 10, he was allowed back in the country despite his expired visa. He didn't bother to list his flight or carrier, yet sailed through immigration. The next month, Atta and Al-Shehhi rented a single-engine Piper Warrior from a Gwinnett County, Ga., flight school. Like many other pilots, they were honing their skills. Atta inquired again about crop dusters--this time in Belle Glade, Fla. He and some men with...
...second restructuring in five months. The airline will now concentrate on higher-margin business travel in Europe and scale back its long hauls by 25%. Swissair said it would cut 3,000 jobs at its catering subsidiary, Gate Gourmet, and merge with its regional airline Crossair into a single carrier, resulting in thousands more job losses. "It?s the beginning of a more realistic time," said Sepp Moser, an industry analyst. A prominent industrialist, Ulrich Bremi, was named to head a panel that is trying to raise an estimated $1.9 billion in fresh capital to keep the airline afloat...
Italy?s national carrier Alitalia called the current situation "the worst crisis commercial airlines have faced since the end of World War II." To meet it, the carrier announced costsaving measures, including a cut of 2,500 jobs, or 12% of the workforce. The package of cuts will let Alitalia bring losses down from an estimated $350 million to $150 million in the half-year ending in March. The government has promised Italian carriers - Alitalia and a handful of private lines - a bailout of up to $200 million to reduce airport taxes and help pay for heightened security...
...major airlines complain a one-bag rule will be too difficult, tell them to call Ryanair, the low-cost, European airline that is already using a new system. According to Jef McAllister, Time's London Bureau Chief, who flew the carrier recently, it's a welcome change. Last weekend McAllister took Ryanair from London to Brussels and on the outbound leg had to follow a rigid one carry on bag per person rule (and no big ones). On the way back, things go more serious: there were no carry-ons allowed at all. "I had to check my computer...
...needs to be pulled over." (He later apologized.) On that same day, the pilot of a Delta flight in Texas had a Pakistani American removed before takeoff because he said his crew did not feel comfortable with the man aboard. Delta offered him a new ticket--on another carrier. (It later apologized.) In Lincoln, R.I., someone hit a pregnant woman wearing a hijab (head scarf) with a stone. She has been calling midwives to avoid giving birth in the hospital because "I don't want to go to any public place." A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll of 1,032 adults indicated...