Word: tarmac
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...takeoff, its lights off and its window shades drawn. Laptops were returned in midflight, but their owners had to disable the wireless functions to prevent the President's plane from being tracked across the globe. Twelve hours later, Air Force One touched down, and Bush stepped out onto the tarmac of another well-secured U.S. air base for an eight-hour visit to Anbar province...
...role has helped make Diego Garcia pretty much off-limits for journalists. That, in turn, has made it something of a holy-grail dateline for reporters covering the military. Not that I saw much of it. After President Bush deplaned, he was greeted by an honor guard on the tarmac. We were taken 100 yards to a low, beige outbuilding and shown to an auditorium, while Bush met the base commander and some unspecified others. When I tried to leave the building to look around, I was told by some courteous airmen that I didn't have the proper clearance...
...resolve the stand-off. Similar grumbling was heard in France and around Europe over the deployment of Sarkozy's wife, Cécilia, as an emissary to Libya twice in the last ten days of negotiations, as well as her presence on the presidential plane and on the Sofia tarmac with the returning Bulgarians. Critics have claimed the move was an attempt to cast France's First Lady into a quasi-official, freelancing diplomatic role to fit her husband's political objectives. However, Elysée officials note Madame Sarkozy was accompanied with senior officials who handled negotiations, and that...
...hoping to make Schmidt's legislation unnecessary, however. In June, the Bureau launched its own review of data collection methods regarding tarmac delays. According to Smallen, BTS didn't realize its data was inaccurate until after it "was brought to our attention following JetBlue," he says, referring to the JetBlue tarmac delays at JFK in February. After the BTS completes the review, it may change how the data of tarmac delays is recorded. In a curious turn, the Air Transport Association - which originally used the BTS data to defend the airline industry's handling of tarmac delays - now supports...
...almost impossible to determine how many flights are getting delayed on the tarmac. Smallen acknowledges that the available BTS data cannot accurately answer that question. To find data on Hanni's flight, Mogel - who runs a business developing software products - had to sift through FAA records to see when and where her flight actually landed. "That process of brute force takes about 30 minutes per flight," he says. "In 2006, there were 120,000 cancelled flights and 16,000 diverted flights. We're talking 136,000 flights to look at." Castelveter admitted that with new reporting procedures, the BTS data...