NEWS Stabbing at New Orleans airport
A security incident occurred at Louis Armstrong International Airport on Friday night, closing down Lousiana’s largest airport. Link
NEWS Venezuela may lose another connection
According to comments made by a European airline’s leadership, Venezuela could be losing another link to the outside world. Link
NEWS PDX carpet named Grand Marshal of Starlight Parade
The Portland Rose Festival Foundation announced that the PDX carpet is the new Grand Marshal of the 2015 Starlight Parade. With the PDX carpet’s rise to fame, parade organizers said it was only fitting the carpet should ride front and center at the parade. The Grand Marshal’s nickname is Petey. It will be accompanied along…
NEWS Airbus expects unions to target A320 FAL in Alabama
Airbus already has developed a strategy to counter an internally expected move by labour unions to organize the A320 final assembly line that opens later this year in Alabama. “I don’t think there’s any question that organised labour will want to try to approach our employees there,” Alan McArtor, chairman and chief executive of the…
NEWS Portland International Airport removes carpet. People revolt; Foot Selfies and Tattoos
Portlanders have a tradition when visiting their Oregon airport: taking pictures of their feet. It’s not to show off their shoes but rather what’s under them. They are documenting the famous PDX carpet: a loud, decidedly ’80s geometric pattern over a vast sea of teal. The carpet, it is said, is based on the way…
NEWS After Plane Crash, Harrison Ford to Narrate Airplane Documentary
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harrison Ford, who recently crashed his vintage airplane on a Los Angeles golf course, is returning to the skies — at least with his voice. National Geographic Studios announced Thursday that Ford will narrate a documentary being released next month called “Living in the Age of Airplanes.” The giant-screen film that…
Father And Daughter Fly American Airlines Plane As Captain/First Officer
UNITED STATES – A father and daughter team flew together for the first time in an American Airlines commercial airliner from Chicago to Dallas and then to Orange County on Wednesday This was the first time this has ever happened for American Airlines and in the United States. READ FULL STORY Father/Daughter Fly Commercial Airliner
