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JFK air traffic controller on first furlough day: 'Frustrating'
Apr 24, 2013
Air traffic controllers from JFK to LAX have begun their furloughs, making for long and painful delays, especially flying into and out of the big East Coast airports around New York City.
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Lufthansa strike grounds hundreds of flights
Apr 22, 2013
Ground staff at Lufthansa, Germany's biggest airline, walked off the job Monday on a one-day strike that prompted the company to cancel most of the day's scheduled flights.
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Airbus CEO on coming to America, and what it takes to compete with Boeing
Apr 10, 2013
CEO of Airbus Fabrice Bregier joins Marketplace Morning Report host Jeremy Hobson to discuss their new assembly plant in Alabama and what's ahead for the company.
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Do merging airlines actually mean better customer service?
Apr 8, 2013
A new report says airlines scored their second best performance rankings in 23 years. Find out how that happened when airline mergers were supposed to make customer service worse.
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Want to be a flight attendant? Get in line.
Mar 18, 2013
These days, you have a better chance of getting into Harvard than you do of becoming a flight attendant.
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Massive snow storm snarls U.S. airlines, passengers
Feb 8, 2013
As snowstorm 'Nemo' approaches the East Coast, airlines are preemptively cancelling thousands of flights. That means headaches for many travelers, but how does being grounded affect those work in the airline industry?
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FAA makes an 'unprecedented' announcement about Boeing
Jan 11, 2013
FAA won't ground the Boeing 787 Dreamliner but they will review the plane's construction.
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Southwest Airlines raises fees
Dec 17, 2012
The one-time discount airline is rethinking its 'bags fly free' policy because of rising costs. So far, only the third bag will cost you.
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How airlines weather the cost of catastrophe
Nov 7, 2012
Passengers can buy flight insurance to cover canceled trips. But when planes can't fly, airlines have no such protection.
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List of long-haul flights grows short
Oct 25, 2012
Airlines are increasingly canceling flights of 15 hours or more because of softened demand.
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