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...still just a nominee for Secretary of Transportation, Norm Mineta was already warning airline passengers that this summer would outdo even the terrible summer of 2000 for awfulness. "I need to be very candid with you," he told a Senate committee. "We are likely to have similar--or worse--delay problems this year as well. We simply have an air-traffic-control system that has not been able to keep pace with rapidly rising demand...
...rather than value, you will be reimbursed no more than $9.07 per lb.) The second right is that passengers must be compensated if they are "bumped" from a plane that has been oversold. The amount owed the traveler depends on the price of the ticket and the length of delay in eventually arriving at the destination. If the airline gets you home more than two hours after you were due, for example, the compensation is double your fare, up to a $400 maximum...
...time performance--broken down by airline, airport and even particular flight. Online travel site Expedia.com also provides on-time stats for individual flights. Finally, make use of the Web to see how the Federal Aviation Administration is reacting to the weather. Seemingly irrelevant thunderstorms in Cleveland may delay your L.A.-to-New York flight because the FAA sometimes orders that flights be held on the runway if delays are building up in the crowded Northeast airspace. You can see what the FAA is looking at by going to its command center's website www.fly.faa.gov...
...always been especially leery about losing a pilot, says a senior Pentagon officer. "Saddam is eventually going to get lucky. We just want to delay that day as long as possible." The wily boss of Baghdad had been pouring money into reconstructing his dated (but deadly) "Tall King" and "Volex" radars and linking them together with new underground fiber-optic cables. That would give the dishes much sharper eyes in the sky and antiaircraft shooters a faster bead on their targets. Pilots on no-fly patrol have lately noticed newly aggressive Iraqi tactics in picking up their aircraft, and they...
...Ironically, the lawsuit filed last week against IBM could mean yet another delay for those seeking reparations; German firms participating in the compensation effort have demanded protection against future claims on behalf of victims of the Nazis, and IBM's apparent vulnerability may invigorate those demands...