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US Airways
courting United Airlines for possible
merger - Roughly a year after being
spurned by Delta Air Lines, US Airways
Group Inc. is courting another rival:
United Airlines. (Story)
Analyst:
US Airways-United has merit - A
merger of US Airways and United Airlines
has "considerable merit" and would be
less complex than a much-rumored merger
of United and Continental Airlines, a
airline analyst wrote in a research note
this week. (Story)
Court
overturns air passenger rights law -
As struggling airlines add extra-luggage
fees and travelers worry about growing
security restrictions, services like
Luggage Forward and Luggage Free have
emerged as ways to bypass the hassles of
checking bags. (Story)
10 most
obnoxious hidden airline fees -
Making reservations over the phone?
Cashing in miles? It'll cost you ...
Let’s face it. As an industry, airlines
have never made money since the Wright
Brothers. (Story)
Specter
blasts US Airways over China route -
Livid at US Airways' threat to call off
expansion of its service in
Philadelphia, Sen. Arlen Specter accused
the carrier today of "extortion" and
berated its chief executive personally
over the dispute. (Story)
Fatigue key to mistakes among pilots
- Hundreds of pilots, mechanics and
air-traffic controllers reported that
fatigue led them to make mistakes on the
job, including six cases where pilots
fell asleep in midflight, analysis of
safety records since 2003 shows. (Story)
A
Look through Piedmont's History -
Slideshow: The Best Days of Our
Lives Articles from the Archive (Story)
US
Airways' Flight Attendants' Future
Unsure - Company Plans To Cut 450
Jobs, Officials Say -- On Wednesday, US
Airways announced it's cutting its
flight schedule and closing its crew
base in Pittsburgh, a move that would
affect about 450 employees. (Story)
US
Airways firms up order for 92 Airbus
aircraft; order includes 22 A350 XWBs
- Following an agreement announced in
June 2007, US Airways has now signed the
contract for the purchase of 92 Airbus
aircraft, including: 18 A350-800s, 4
A350-900s, 10 A330-200s, and 60 A320
Family aircraft. (Story)
Checking
in on US Airways - 'Putting together two
airlines isn't easy' - Fares are
down. Customer complaints are up.
Bankruptcy yielded to profit, yet the
stock struggles. (Story)
U.S. Airways tanks across the pond
- I've been on the road long enough
to know that you must always look gift
horses from the airlines in the mouth.
So when the notoriously shifty bosses at
US Airways started offering 20% off the
price of its international
business-class flights, I started poking
around.
(Story)
Right There on the Tarmac, the
Inmates Revolt - ON July 29,
Continental Flight 1669, a 737-700 with
about 120 passengers aboard, was bound
for Newark from Caracas, Venezuela, when
bad weather caused the plane to be
diverted to Baltimore. It sat there for
about five hours with passengers on
board as food and water ran low and
toilets became filthy.
(Story)
She was avid gatherer of friends, travels - She never worked for the airline whose motto was "Fly the Friendly Skies," but she made sure that any sky she flew was friendly.
(Story)
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www.piedmontsilvereagles.org
or download the application
HERE.
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