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...been ratcheting up pressure on airlines since March, when it launched "phase one" of a probe that required its inspectors to make sure each carrier was complying with 10 randomly chosen "airworthiness directives," the agency's written safety bulletins. (About 200 are issued annually.) The FAA followed that with what it calls "phase two," where its inspectors are reviewing 10% of all airworthiness directives per fleet to determine compliance. Initial results show the airlines have been complying with about 99% of the directives. But that remaining 1% was enough to cause hundreds of flight cancellations...
...pulled towards the right by his biggest ally, the anti-immigrant Northern League party, which garnered an impressive 8% to 9% of the vote, as of late polling Monday. The most immediate outcome of the vote may be to scuttle negotiations for Air France-KLM to takeover ailing national carrier Alitalia, which both Berlusconi and the Northern League had openly opposed...
...things happening in the current airlines' chaos? Did the friendly skies suddenly become too dangerous to fly? Not at all. The massive flight cancellations at American Airlines - about 1,200 flights, more than half of its daily schedule, affecting 273,000 passengers after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered the carrier to ground 300 planes for inspection - are the aviation equivalent of a traffic cop behind on his quota blanketing a street with tickets to avoid catching heat from his sergeant. Woe unto thee unlucky enough to double park...
...ordering American, the nation's largest carrier by revenue, to ground all of its MD-80s after finding that their wiring wasn't fastened precisely according to FAA rules. No one, including the FAA, is saying that any of these planes were unsafe to fly. But rather than allow American to ground a few planes at a time and phase in the fixes and re-inspections (as it had done just two weeks earlier), the FAA chose to ground all the planes at once. The agency has said that it's simply enforcing the rules, and American's CEO, Gerald...
...Skybus, Aloha and Frontier Airlines, which have all filed for bankruptcy protection within the last three weeks. The FAA is continuing its by-the-book campaign with audits of other airlines, but there may not be another inspection-related shutdown of this magnitude anytime soon, since no other carrier is as dependent on the MD-80 as American. Having made its point to the industry, the FAA can still choose to allow airlines (particularly those in more precarious financial health than American) to take just a few planes out of service at a time for inspections rather than going through...