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European airplane maker Airbus has unveiled the world's largest passenger plane, a double-decker behemoth that will seat up to 800 people. The A380 will make its first test flight this spring and begin flying passengers in 2006. But will U.S. airports be ready? No U.S. passenger airline has yet ordered the plane, but three airports--San Francisco's, Los Angeles' LAX and New York's John F. Kennedy--are gearing up for foreign airlines, such as Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines, that have. Some runways and taxiways have to be widened and terminals expanded for the extra passengers. Virgin...
Boeing CEO Harry Stonecipher spent last Christmas at his St. Petersburg, Florida, home. He wasn't happy about that. Angered because carriers like AirAsia and Air Berlin were buying rival Airbus planes, all too aware that the European manufacturer would soon be rolling out its 555-seat, double-decker A380 jumbo liner - and was also developing a smaller plane, the A350, to compete with his new baby, the Boeing 737 - Stonecipher had told his salespeople he would travel anywhere in the world, even on Christmas Day, if he was needed to close a deal. No one called. "That troubled...
...Steven G. Catalano, Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) spokesman, said Decker did not mention to police that she had been assaulted that day.“These allegations of her being assaulted are new,” said Catalano, who also said police reports indicate that Mckenzie was the victim...
...Decker, who received a summons to appear in court on the night of the incident but was not arrested, said she suspects her race was a factor. Both she and Mayer are black...
...feel it’s very discriminatory,” said Decker. “If we were two older white men in blue blazers, he wouldn’t have screamed at us and he definitely would not have pushed...