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...Duquette takes issue with those allegations. She points out that airline travel has become much safer as the FAA and airlines have worked more as partners since the deadly Valujet crash in 1996. "We've had a very concerted effort for probably the past 7 to 10 years using data to identify risk in the system well before accidents happen," Duquette says. "That's what has helped reduce our accident rate over the years - getting information from the industry, from the airlines about where potential problems may crop...
...cheap tickets, low costs and reliable service. It offers the only low-fare business class in the industry. As a result, AirTran has stolen market share from Delta at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport--Delta's primary hub.Leonard and president Bob Fornaro built AirTran on the ashes of ValuJet, which suffered a fatal crash in the Florida Everglades in 1996. In 2003, when aircraft prices hit rock bottom, they made a decision that looks prophetic today: they ordered 100 fuel-efficient, long-range Boeing 737s. Fornaro says the airline is burning 25% less fuel than it was five years...
During those first weeks, Sincock realized that the families' grief would last far longer than the support center would exist (it closed two months ago). He had heard about a website still being used by the families of those who perished in the ValuJet crash five years ago, and he decided to launch pentagonangels.net It is not a tribute to the fallen, or a place to make donations, but rather a place for the families of those who died on the plane or in the Pentagon to share stories and begin to heal. It also offers practical advice. Sincock restricts...
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REMEDY Airlines since have installed smoke detectors and fire extinguishers in cargo holds. Any airline that contracts out for maintenance, as ValuJet did, now gets heightened oversight...