The carrier has become the country’s most profitable by catering to affluent travelers, but it is facing stiffer competition from United.
Category: Pilots
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Frontier Jet Hits Person on Runway During Takeoff at Denver Airport
The plane reported an engine fire and aborted its takeoff. Those on board were safely evacuated.
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Investigators Said to Look at Whether LaGuardia Controller Stepped Away
Officials are said to be examining whether a controller had to use an emergency phone just before the crash at LaGuardia. They have yet to determine the cause of the crash and are also focusing on other avenues.
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Safety Experts Considered LaGuardia Challenging but Not an Outlier
Regulators, pilots and others in aviation have worried about the kind of runway accident that happened at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday.
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Exploring Jeddah, Saudia Arabia, With an Airline Pilot
On a stopover in Saudi Arabia, the writer strolls along the corniche, lingers over coffee and explores the historic heart of this city on the Red Sea.
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When Something Goes Wrong With Your Flight, These People Take Charge
Inside a tornado-hardened office in Texas, 1,700 American Airlines employees manage the carrier’s operations, responding to bad weather, plane trouble and ailing passengers.
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William Rataczak, Co-Pilot of Flight Hijacked by D.B. Cooper, Dies at 86
He was a witness to one of the most riveting unsolved crimes in American history, which inspired scores of conspiracy theories and obsessed amateur sleuths.
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Plane Lands After Pilots Fear Someone Is Trying to Enter Cockpit
A problem with an intercom led to uncertainty. No one was hurt.
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Now Arriving, a New Theory of In-Flight Turbulence
Physicists have devised a new model to account for the discomfort that airline passengers know all too well.
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Newark Airport Crisis Has Eased but Tech and Staffing Issues Persist
United Airlines said it had a very good summer at Newark airport. But air traffic control equipment issues and staffing shortages remained unresolved.
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Spirit Airlines Pilot Is Charged With Stalking Two Children
The pilot, Dominic Cipolla, was arrested in July while on duty at New Orleans International Airport, the airline said.
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Delta Pilot Arrested in Cockpit Faces 24 Felonies in Child Sex Case
The pilot was removed from the cockpit of a plane after it landed in San Francisco on Saturday night. A woman was also charged in a related felony complaint.