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Sunday | Examiner.com

Musashi: authentic Asian food at Detroit Metro Airport

If you're traveling from Baltimore's BWI-Thrugood Marshall Airport on Delta Airlines going west, there's a nice likelihood that you'll be making a connection flight at Detroit's Metro Airport .

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Related Topix: Transportation, Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Northwest Airlines Corporation

Fri May 25, 2012

Saipan Tribune

FLASHBACK - May 26, 2012

May 26, 1999 CPA's aviation revenues up 75 percent Operating revenues of the aviation division jumped by 75 percent in April amounting to $927,441 compared to the same period last fiscal year, according to the Commonwealth Ports Authority.

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Related Topix: Transportation, Airlines, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Capitol Hill (Washington, DC)

Reuters

TEXT-S&P revises Delta Air Lines outlook to positive

Overview -- U.S.-based Delta Air Lines is generating free cash flow, and we believe its credit measures will gradually improve as the company repays debt.

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Related Topix: Transportation, Delta Air Lines, Airlines, Northwest Airlines Corporation, New York

Schneier on Security

The Explosive from the Latest Foiled Al Qaeda Underwear Bomb Plot

Although the plot was disrupted before a particular airline was targeted and tickets were purchased, al Qaeda's continued attempts to attack the U.S. speak to the organization's persistence and willingness to refine specific approaches to killing.

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Related Topix: Transportation, Airlines

Wed May 23, 2012

Reuters

Golden age or bubble? Plane-makers walk the line

When Greece faced a tense, massive debt restructuring earlier this year, an entrepreneur used iPads to connect 100,000 bondholders, saving billions.

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Related Topix: Transportation, Airlines, Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing 737, Aircraft

Post and Courier

Delta Air Lines to take Southwest's 717s

Delta Air Lines plans to add 88 Boeing 717s to its fleet, picking up planes that Southwest Airlines didn't want anymore.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing 737, Aircraft, Transportation, Airlines

Sedalia Democrat

Chalfant: Pilot's passion for flight indulged at state fair

The typical 19th-century U.S. immigrant came from Europe seeking a better life. One of those German immigrants fit the pattern of success.

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Related Topix: McGirk, MO, Transportation, Airlines, US Military, US Air Force

Tue May 22, 2012

ComputerWorld

ACMA probes airport body scanner operation

The Australian Communications and Media Authority is seeking comment on the deployment of body scanners at Australian international airports.

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Related Topix: Transportation, Airlines

Sunherald.com

3 Miss. cities to be served by Silver Airways

Three Mississippi cities that are losing their federally-subsidized air connections to Memphis, Tenn., will now be served through Atlanta.

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Related Topix: Thad Cochran, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Transportation, Airlines

WNYC-AM New York

Is Al-Qaida Dropping Clues About Planned Attacks?

Two F-15 fighter jets intercepted at U.S. Airways flight on Tuesday and escorted the plane to Maine's Bangor International Airport after a passenger on board said that she was carrying an implanted device.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, Transportation, Airlines

Sat May 19, 2012

Lexington Herald-Leader

Blue Grass Airport 'more fortunate' than others in a changing airline climate

Most of the commercial flights leaving Lexington's Blue Grass Airport are full these days, which makes airport officials happy.

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Related Topix: Airlines, Transportation, AirTran Holdings, Lexington, KY, Southwest Airlines

Thu May 17, 2012

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Delta cutting staff, trimming flights

Delta offered early retirement packages in April, including a one-time medical account offert to cover health care in retirement.

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Related Topix: Transportation, Airlines, Northwest Airlines

Wed May 16, 2012

WZZM-TV Grand Rapids

The search continues for NW Flight 2501

SOUTH HAVEN, Mich - At the time, it was considered America's worst commercial aviation disaster.

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Related Topix: South Haven, MI, Michigan, Transportation, Airlines, La Guardia, Country, Benton Harbor, MI

Jaunted

Three Cute Owls and One Badass Lufthansa Bird

Okay. That's just a teaser video , because what we really want to talk about is this Lufthansa video: Filmed while the brand new Boeing 747-8 takes off from Boeing's Everett HQ, bound for its new home at Frankfurt International Airport , the video should get you psyched to welcome yet another airplane type to US airports.

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Related Topix: Civil Aircraft, Aircraft, Airbus A380, Airbus Aircraft, Commercial Aircraft, Boeing 747, Boeing Aircraft, Airlines, Transportation, Travel

Minnesota Public Radio

Cravaack claims airport ground security 'a joke'

While airport terminals may be full of government security screeners asking passengers to remove their shoes and empty their bags, security out on the tarmac where aircraft are parked is "a joke" said U.S. Rep.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Chip Cravaack, Transportation, Airlines

Palm Beach Post

A new terminal's bumpy ride to reality

On a stage beneath a Swarovski crystal chandelier in the Atlanta airport's new international terminal, city leaders past and present gathered recently to laud the complex, which opens today.

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Related Topix: Atlanta, GA, Transportation, Airlines, Delta Air Lines

Mon May 14, 2012

LongmontFYI

AQAP bomb maker must be stopped

News that CIA and Saudi intelligence agencies had thwarted a Yemen-based al-Qaida affiliate's plan to blow up an airliner using an underwear bomb was welcome on several fronts, not least that it saved lives and prevented another disruption of air travel.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, Transportation, Airlines, Opinion

Fri May 11, 2012

U.S. Department of Defense

Panetta: U.S. Must Stay Vigilant Against Terrorist Attacks

A recent attempt by Yemeni-based terrorists to plant an explosive device on an airliner bound for the United States shows the nation needs to remain vigilant against new acts of terrorism, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Transportation, Airlines

Free Republic

Institutional Arrogance

Last week, this column described a deadly suicide attack by the Haqqani network on a secure compound outside Kabul, Afghanistan, and the failure of NATO officials to heed human intelligence that might have saved lives.

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Related Topix: World News, Afghanistan, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Terrorism, Transportation, Airlines

Wed May 09, 2012

Freshnews

PASSUR Aerospace Promotes Tom White and Renee Alter and Hires Bill Leber

STAMFORD, Conn., May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PASSUR Aerospace, Inc. , a business intelligence software and solutions company, announced the promotions of Tom White to Executive Vice President, Operations, and Renee Alter to Vice President, Airports, and the hiring of Bill Leber as Vice President, Air Traffic Innovations.

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Related Topix: US News, Federal Aviation Administration, US Energy Systems, Energy, US Military, US Army, Transportation, Airlines

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