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What is also ironic is the fact that the Alabama PENSION Fund is requiring the termination of the pilots fund to secure their investment. If I was a pension holder in Alabama I may have a problem with this morally. That being said it is hard to gather support to a side that is trying to defend...

I believe I read that this letter was a "confirmation" of the previous conditional aproval. If the news article just used the wrong words and this is indeed final, what does that do to the pension issue? Can the ATSB pull it back if the judge rules to keep the pension plan as is?

NW has reduced the maximum weight of the free allowance to 50 pounds. Has any other airlines adopted this? The policy is 0-50 free (2 bag limit), 51-70 is $25, and 71-100 is $50. Over 100 pounds has to go freight. This should trend the aircraft to be lighter eventually saving on fuel. The...

Airtran Airlines was origanlly owned by Mesaba Holdings (Northwest Airlink). It was created by then president Robert Swenson. Northwest Airlines was not happy with the situation, so Mesaba Holdings spun Airtran off and Robert Swenson went with Airtran. Brian Bedford then came in to run Mesaba...

The RJ85 in question was being taxied by MTM into a gate in MEM when the A/C lost hydrolics (brakes). This happened on the 15th of October. No one was hurt and they have not determined status of A/C yet. Needless to say though it is messed up.

Just read this off of NWA.com. Seems like only Mgmt positions are being lost, but does mean relocating for everyone else.

The Full Service airlines' fare structures remind me of another complicated system tha needs to be fixed - The Tax Code. The problem is that the airlines can make alot of extra money using good revenue management. If they never did they would not have started this system. Just like any...

Family members added they do not know whether the airline, airport workers or the funeral home made the mistake but were trying to raise more money to get Castaneda's body back to Mexico, according to the Mercury News. Raising more money?? Delta isn't comping the second shipment? Must be part...

Not really an Eagle reduction, but I heard that MLI was going to get a reduction in mainline to STL. Does anyone know when the current cuts make the schedule?

http://www.week.com/morenews/#2 and http://www.pantagraph.com/stories/082102/n...020821005.shtml I found an answer to my question I guess. This was just out from some Central Illinois media sources. I checked on other Illinois Service for Eagle and it is now down to PIA and CMI. MLI, BMI...

Any news on any new cities or shifting of service to different cities out there for Air Tran?

Does any of the AA shrinking affect Eagle or just mainline? I have heard rumors of Eagle leaving some smaller Illinois markets. Has anyone else heard this? If it is true is this something happening everywhere of just there?