Cuba, Russia sign aviation agreement.
Cuba and Russia have renewed their alliance with a commitment to increase cooperation in aviation services and training, according to Cuban media reports. Russia's Transport Ministry and the Cuban Civil Aeronautics Institute signed a deal in early July which covers tourism, cargo and passenger services. ...

Air war: why Congress wants to re-regulate airlines.
Pep. Bud Shuster (R-Pa.) is mad as hell at the airline industry - and he's set to teach them a lesson as only the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee can. In February, when nasty contract negotiations between American Airlines and its pilots temporarily shut the carrier...

Long journey to free trade in U.S.-Canada airline services.
* A list of acronyms used in this article is provided on page 47. A professor of management at Texas A&M University, Michael W. Pustay is the author of International Business (with Ricky Griffin, 1996), "The Globalizing Airline Industry: The Need for a New International Policy Regime," in M. Kreinin,...

You actually want us to enforce our rules?
One hole in the FANs system appeared in May, when a 69-year old pilot caused near-chaos in Washington by penetrating the restricted air space around the nation's Capitol. The pilot took off from the small airport in Smoketown, Pa., without checking weather reports and without reading the FAA's "Notice...

Traveling with oxygen?
In the past, many individuals who needed medical oxygen experienced problems related to access, cost, and poor coordination among airlines, airports, and oxygen suppliers. Under the leadership of Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) and a congressional committee, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a regulation intended to reduce these obstacles....

These things take time--lots of time.
If you think the Coast Guard followed a too-little and too-slow policy in responding to the safety needs of those ferry passengers, consider the Federal Aviation Administration's response to the danger of another fuel tank explosion like the one that brought down TWA's Flight 800. That accident happened in...

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Dog Tote $240.00 This bling-bling dog tote has all the bells and whistles--easy to personalize with the removeable collar and rhinestone letters, heart-shaped identification tag, padded strap that can also be used as a leash or to pull your pup in his/her new mobile home, and removable...

RP urged to open skies to attract more tourists.
Byline: BERNIE CAHILESMAGKILAT The Philippines can become a mecca of tourists if it opens its skies to foreign airlines, a Singaporean official said citing its own open skies policy. Singapore Ambassador to the Philippines Lim Kheng Hua stressed this at the official launch of the...

Improving response with an open platform: Long Beach Airport gets a security facelift.
As airport policeman Dan Reynolds watches the real-time video images on his monitor, he hears a familiar sound from another computer in the room. It's an alarm from the airport's access control system, alerting him to a possible security violation at one of the airport's gates. He knows from...

Micropolitics and Canadian Business: Paper, Steel and the Airlines.
By PETER CLANCY. Toronto: Broadview Press. 2004. Pp 336, bibliographical references, index. This book is a welcome addition to the literature on business-government relations in Canada. It goes beyond the analysis of the political interface between governments and the business community to examine what the author calls...