Jonathan Cook in Dissident Voice: “South Africa deported an Israeli airline official last week following allegations that Israel’s secret police, the Shin Bet, had infiltrated Johannesburg international airport in an effort to gather information on South African citizens, particularly black and Muslim travellers. The move by the South African government followed an investigation by local ...

Etihad, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has been voted the world’s best carrier at the World Travel Awards (WTA). Related posts:Airline crisis: British Airways asks cabin crew to work for freeMassive job cuts loom at British AirwaysTravel agent sends tourist to wrong countryWorld Cup airfares rocketOlympic Airlines says goodbye to Joburg

Israel’s National Airline will be serving passengers Sufganiot (jelly donuts), and Latkes (potato pancakes), for the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Jewish recipes will be available on EL AL flights from New York, JFK/Newark, along with a nightly candle lighting. This is an especially attractive service for all Jewish travelers looking for traditional Kosher meals for Hanukkah.

... Buffalo in February, killing 50 people, the airline told federal investigators. The twin-engine ... Colgan Air said in a Dec. 7 report to the National Transportation Safety Board. The Air Line ... Feb. 12. The Manassas, Va., regional airline operated the flight for Continental Airlines Inc. and is facing ... pay and long-distance commutes of regional airline pilots. The agency exposed a series of critical ...

... stays in the hands of Jamaicans. Why? Air Jamaica is our one remaining national treasure, our only resource to hand down to the children of Jamaica in hopes of a better ... . Is Jamaica really that awful? I mean, is it possible that the only thing they have going for them is a small, money-losing airline? Sheesh. By the way, if their goal is to be able to hand Air Jamaica down to their children, ...

... in order to travel on a commercial airline in the U.S. after the first of the year." Okay then. We have legislation in the pipeline that would clean up a national disgrace, no ... my monthly statement. This has been going on for decades and they still haven't made a mistake like that! Three national credit reporting agencies keep an eye on everyone dealing with credit, ...

... bankrupt and the state of Abu Dhabi has bought the airline. But I always dismissed them as baseless rumors. Then, the Dubai World ... made me think again. That the Abu Dhabi government could ask for Emirates, the airline, as collateral in bailing out Dubai, the state. So, let’ ... Indians need to get over Air India and recognize Emirates as the national carrier Why a Qantas and British Airways merger ...

... the principles of U.S. democracy. The National Mediation Board (NMB), which oversees airline and rail union elections, ... to workers who do not participate. “The deck is currently stacked against airline and railroad workers,” says AFL-CIO Transportation ... . Wytkind said it is time to make the changes: It is time to permit airline and rail workers to vote on the question of unionization ...

... in Salt Lake City.” Atlanta’s National Airspace Data Interchange Network, which processes flight planning ... particularly hard hit, but that’s where the computer system, called National Airspace Data Interchange Network, is located. UPDATE: ... down in August of last year. Can we fix it, please? My advice: check with your airline’s website before you head to the airport today. Or ...

... looking for a means to identify the countries where their airline industry plays a disproportionate role in the national economy. As a general rule I would expect that these are the countries with airlines that rely to a ... by revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) from the August 2008 edition of Airline Business and allocated these airlines to their home countries. What I came ...

... on December 14, 2009 at 10:12 AM ROCHESTER, N.Y. -  A regional airline is blaming the pilot for the commuter plane crash that killed 50 people near Buffalo earlier this year. Colgan Air says in a report submitted this month to the National Transportation Safety Board that the pilot’s inattention and failure to follow ...

Airline inspectors warn of safety issues, say new system leaves big airlines unmonitored Source: The Canadian Press Posted: 11/30/09 5:05PM Filed Under: Business ... that the new regime, called Safety Management Systems (SMS), is not working. Capt. Daniel Slunder, the union's national chair, said the passenger-pilot filed an incident report to Transport Canada, which in turn handed over it to Air ...

... best in localized, personal service." Over the years, National Car Rental would go on to pioneer many industry features to improve ... into daily reservation operations. After airline industry deregulation in 1976, National Car Rental opened its ... account business in the late '70s, the 1980s and beyond for National Car Rental can be characterized by its commitment to the corporate traveler. ...

... checking that the flight had enough fuel. The pilot responded that they had about two hours' worth of fuel on board and that it wasn't a concern. The pilots have told the National Transportation Safety Board that they were discussing their company's complicated new crew-scheduling program over their laptop computers as their plane flew past Minneapolis by 150 miles. Northwest was ...

Ahmedabad: Jan Balaz, a German national, has filed a plea to initiate contempt of court proceedings against the Regional Passport Office (RPO) in the surrogate child ... to them. Balaz further stated that his wife's visa will expire on November 26 and her presence is necessary as the airline, which will fly them to Germany, does not allow a child to travel without two adults. Source: Dnaindia