JAL special Hina Matsuri flight uses female staff Japan News TOKYO - Japan Airlines Corp. conducted a special Hina Matsuri flight operated mainly by female staff, including the co-pilot and most mechanics, between Haneda and Hiroshima on Tuesday to demonstrate the career activities of its female employees.
Bird Strikes My name is Rob and I am a commercial airline pilot currently flying 757/767 and based in Atlanta.
Pay-to-Pee Proposal Pisses Off Customers The CEO of the famously cheap company announced, with a straight face, that he's toying with the idea of putting pay toilets in every one of the airline's 168 Boeing 737s. The idea has pilots and passengers freaking out, the airline's flacks scrambling to contain the damage and us wondering what happens to the poor schmuck who can't break a tenner.
Jenazah Kru Turkish Airlines Masih di Biarkan Dalam Pesawat AMSTERDAM, KAMIS - Sebagian jenazah korban pesawat Turkish Airlines untuk sementara masih dibiarkan di dalam bangkai pesawat untuk kepentingan penyelidikan. Terutama jenazah kapten pilot dan sejumlah kru. Lima di antara sembilan korban tewas dalam kecelakaan pesawat Turkish Airlines yang jatuh dan terbelah tiga di Bandara Schiphol Belanda.
ClaroConnect Launches Free Service to Help People Find a Fin Many people don't realize there are financial advisors who specialize in socially responsible investing, divorced women, even airline pilots and hundreds of other niches. Users can sort through criteria on the website ( http://www.claroconnect.com ) to find a financial advisor who is the right match for them.
Heli-Expo: Where Mechanics and Pilots are Equals When it comes to talking about professionalism in aviaiton maintenance, nobody takes it more seriously than the helicopter community. Compared to the fixed-wing airline community, the rotorcraft world is still quite small.
How To Make Better Decisions Why do investors sell their most valuable stocks and hold onto those declining in value? How does an airline pilot decide the right course of action when trying to land a disabled plane?
Hudson Hero Says Pilots Fleeing Airlines The air traffic controller who handled Flight 1549 thought ditching in the Hudson River amounted to a death sentence for all aboard. Now the veteran pilot who pulled off the feat safely says harsh pay cuts are driving experienced pilots from the cockpit.
Flight 1549 crew lambastes relations between airline mgmt... FTA: Sullenberger is worried these circumstances are driving talent away from piloting to more lucrative professions. "When my company offered pilots who had been laid off the chance to return to work, 60% refused."
Sullenberger: Pay cuts driving out best pilots "The bankruptcies were used to by some as a fishing expedition to get what they could not get in normal times," Sullenberger said of the airlines. He said the problems began with the deregulation of the industry in the 1970s.
Sullenberger: My Pay Has Been Cut 40%, Pension Terminated The problems began with the deregulation of the industry in the 1970s.The reduced compensation has placed "pilots and their families in an untenable financial situation," Sullenberger said. "I do not know a single professional airline pilot who wants his or her children to follow in their footsteps."
Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger Goes to Washington Sully, who testifies before the Aviation Subcommittee of the House today, says that the cuts airlines have demanded of pilots in recent years have been chasing the best pilots out of the business, which may lead to a decline in safety in the industry. It's a point EW pointed out around the time of the crash.
Hudson pilot urges safety funding The pilot of a plane that ditched into the Hudson River in New York has called on US airlines to invest more in recruiting and training pilots.
Qantas Airlines Gripe Sheet After every flight, pilots fill out a form called a gripe sheet, which conveys to the mechanics any problem they had with the airplane during the flight.The mechanics read and correct the problem, and then explain in writing on the lower half of the form what remedial action was taken.
Pilots Not Turning Off Their Phones… Surprised? It seems that us airline passengers, OVER-paying customers, no less, who are forever enduring that damned stewardess (she can spy an earbud headphone in use from across a football field) demanding we shut off our phones/devices for our "own safety"... are likely to find the pilot on his cellphone, talking to his mother during take-off...
Airline issued navigation alert to pilots before crash Southwest Airlines warned its pilots just weeks before the crash of a commuter flight in Buffalo about safety issues with so-called instrument approaches at the airport. The warning concerned runway 23, the same runway the crashed commuter plane was lined up to use.
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Pilots Don't Turn Their Phones Off in the Air Either It's a general assumption that having your phone on in an airplane is no bigs, but we turn them off anyways. Apparently, pilots aren't following their own rules and are getting in trouble for it. The FAA has issued an alert to airlines telling them to tell their pilots to turn their phones off.
Pilots refuse to be used to as guinea pigs for ID card trial A dispute over identity cards could lead to thousands of flights being cancelled. The British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) says its members will not cooperate with a government plan to make pilots guinea pigs for the controversial cards.
Pilot error? Plane that crashed near Buffalo was on autopilo Flight 3407 was on autopilot when it went down in icy weather near Buffalo, indicating that the pilot may have violated federal safety recommendations and the airline's own policy, a federal official said Sunday.
BREAKING NEWS: Downed plane was on autopi The commuter plane that crashed near Buffalo was on autopilot when it went down in icy weather, indicating that the pilot may have violated federal safety recommendations and the airline's own policy for flying in such conditions, a federal official said Sunday...
Plane that crashed near Buffalo was on autopilot A federal aviation official says the plane that crashed into a house near Buffalo, killing 50 people, was on autopilot when it went down, a violation of airline policy. The pilot of doomed plane reported "significant" ice on his wings and windshield just before crashing Thursday night.
Airline Pilot | Real Job Descriptions * Must not be easy to hear or understand while speaking to the passengers. Horrible jokes and way too much information about the flight are a plus. * Must remind everyone on the plane that you know they have a choice when they fly. They sometimes forget. * Must refer to all mechanical issues, or any issues for that matter, as a “sligh
Obama dings "stimulus" spending while trying to sell it Our prez complains that CEO's should not be heading to Vegas on the taxpayers dime, while at the same time snowing the public that "stimulus is nothing more then spending". Well, what the heck, let the CEO's start the stimulus in Vegas. Get some airline pilots making money as well as some hotels and waitresses. Obama better get his head out of his
Jetsgo Virtual Airlines Jetsgo Virtual Airlines is an online based virtual airline community of pilots on the VATSIM Network. All of our Virtual Airline's flights are flown online on this network. In order to join our virtual airline you must have a copy of Flight Simulator (FS). This can be flight simulator version FS2002, FS2004 or the latest version of Flight Simulator
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WOO HOO! Finally our Presidents admit that UFOs exist! US Presidents, NASA Astronauts, The former Head of Foreign Technology at the Pentagon, CIA Directors, Airline Pilots, Senior Military Personnel, the Chief of NASA Communications & the former Director of the FBI - I salute you for finally admitting to the truth. News reporters, get some balls & mainstream the biggest headline that has ever existed.
'Fringe' - The Transformation In the world of "Fringe," pricey airline fares and long lines are insignificant flight hassles. Passengers have far greater concerns when a show is piloted by J.J. Abrams.
Aeroflot says drunk pilot 'no big deal' Passengers who accused the Russian captain of an Aeroflot flight of being drunk were told by the airline that intoxication was 'no big deal'.
Hijack Drama at Delhi IGI Airport Ends An Indigo airlines flight with 140 passengers on board made an emergency landing at the Delhi airport after the pilot sounded a distress call when the flight was over Jaipur. Three passengers were behaving in an unusual manner and threatening to hijack the plane...
747 Flies More Efficiently with Biofuel than with Jet-A Fuel Japan Airlines became the first airline to demonstrate camelina as a successful biofuel this week, as the fuel surpassed traditional 100% Jet-A fuel in efficiency according to pilots.
Plane makes emergency landing after threat A domestic airliner flying from Goa made an emergency landing in New Delhi on Sunday after a passenger became unruly and said he was carrying a knife, an aviation official told Reuters. The plane was taken by the pilot to an isolated bay at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, where national security guard commandos have surrounded it.
Three US Airways Flight Attendants Are Paying the Price for The other side of US Airways. The airline is apparently punishing the 3 flight attendants who probably had saved many lives on board, instead of thanking them. To me, the First Officer should be stripped of his pilot license. Absurd. Read on.
Hero Pilot - Flash game about landing a plane in the Hudson. This is a really simple Flash game celebrating heroic commercial airline pilots. The game is really short, but kind of addictive for people who like to do things perfectly.You have to fly over Manhattan dodging birds and gently land the plane in the Hudson river near a rescue ferry.
Sex, Beer Meet Employee Resistance At Spirit Flight attendants and pilots for Spirit Airlines Inc. want the company to pull a series of sexually suggestive advertisements, along with a new requirement they wear a Bud Light patch on service aprons. Some of Spirit's ads invite customers to enjoy its DD's and "MILF" specials.
20 Jobs That Let You Work Less, Earn More You got any more useless information? Airline pilot......... So explain how somebody who's unemployed today is going to round up the $120,000 required to get the flight training and certification required just to get an interview? Virtually all these jobs require serious training or eduction that your fluff piece ignores
Air New Zealand Virtual Airlines - Online Flying Simulation Air New Zealand Virtual Airlines is an online based virtual airline community of pilots on the VATSIM Network. All of our Virtual Airline's flights are flown online on this network. In order to join our virtual airline you must have a copy of Flight Simulator (FS). This can be flight simulator version FS2002, FS2004 or the latest version of Flight
US Airways hero pilot has historical predecessor When Danville pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III safely landed a commercial airliner on the Hudson River last week and was hailed as a hero, his accomplishment was called unprecedented. But Maureen Gordon knew better. "I was saying, 'Wow, this is so similar to what we went through,' " she said. "Except ours was more fantastic in a way."
I Heart Southwest Airlines A travelers ode to the No-Whiners Airline that has always taken care of me. "Don’t like horror movies? How about a hero’s tale? Ask me about the Southwest Pilot that refused to take off until I could fly on his plane and get to bed after spending a night in the St. Louis airport due to tornadoes. He had a half full plane..."
CAPT Flight School Shuts Down Flight operations for student pilots at the Commercial Airline Pilot Training Program at the Flagler County Airport are grounded — for the time being.The school, a subsidiary of Flight Training International based in Atlanta, took over the flight school from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2006.
How to keep customers happy when things go wrong I'm in BWIA airport on my way back from a long weekend in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. We flew Southwest Airlines. On the way down, our flight out of Albany was delayed almost three hours. Once we were airborne, the pilot bought drinks for everyone on the plane to make up for our inconvenience. Everyone cheered.
Danville pilot saved Hudson River victims - ContraCostaTimes Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger was the right person to help passengers survive the crisis, said Karlene Roberts, a friend and UC Berkeley professor who co-directs the school's Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, which researches ways to avoid airline tragedies. "I can imagine him being sufficiently in charge to get those people out," she said.
Chuck69.com's Hero of the Day: Chesley Sullenberg Last week, an airline pilot saved everybody on his plane when he crashed it into New York's Hudson River instead of at an airport. Read more about this hero.
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