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Man Strips To Protest About Airport Security
A 49-year-old Oregon man became so fed up with airport screening that he stripped naked at a Portland Airport security checkpoint, police said. Some passengers covered their own eyes, as well as their children’s, during the T...
Spicejet Approached By Gulf, Asian Carriers
India’s Spicejet has been approached by several Gulf-based and Southeast Asian airlines but will not jump into negotiations before the government reaches a crucial decision on foreign investment, its chief executive said ...
Westjet Wins Thomas Cook’s Canada Business
WestJet Airlines has reached a deal with Thomas Cook Group to be the exclusive airline for the UK travel group’s tour operator business in Canada this coming winter, wresting the business from a competitor. The deal expan...
JetBlue Announces Codeshare with Emirates
Seamless connections available at JFK from a dozen U.S. cities to Dubai and onward to Africa, India, and Asia Pacific JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ: JBLU) and Emirates announced a codeshare agreement to connect the carriers’ ...
Porter Airlines Operates Bombardier Q400 Aircraft in Canada’s First Biofuel-Powered Revenue Flight
Porter Airlines today successfully conducted the first biofuel-powered revenue flight in Canada. In the successful conclusion to a test program that was launched in 2010, the airline flew one of its Bombardier Q400 turboprops f...
Airline On-Time Performance, Cancellation Rate in February Improve from Last Year; Mishandled Baggage Rate at All-Time Low
No Tarmac Delays Longer than Three Hours on Domestic Flights or Longer than Four Hours on International Flights in February The nation’s largest airlines posted an on-time arrival rate of 86.2 percent in February, up from...
