The FAA sees this week’s software glitch that disrupted about 600 flights and 60,000 passengers to be a wake up call that things need to change for American’s outdated air traffic control system. The two computers (amazing only two) that help disrupt flights to controllers are updated multiple times per day. One of the files […]
Stories by David Parker Brown
It might be getting harder to have a guaranteed seat on your airline. I have personally been lucky and never have been bumped from my flight, but I would imagine it being a horrible experience. Due to airlines cutting back flights and having fuller flights, the chance of being bumped is getting greater. The NYTimes […]
Instead of going the negative route, I am happy that currently there are 19 survivors from the crash today of Spanair Flight JK5022. It is sad that so far 153 are reported dead, but anytime we have a crash like this, it is nice to see there are some survivors. It appears the airliner sped […]
Almost feel like should call this “The Airline Cutback Blog” but that is what keeps popping up in the airline news. This time United Airlines is stopping some free meal services on international flights. Meal cutbacks has not been anything new, but for a domestic airline to start cutting back on international flights is something […]
You might think because TSA grounded nine planes they must have some threat to our national security. Or maybe they found them to be unsafe to fly. Nope. It is because the TSA agents doing a security check used some control sensors to help themselves onto the planes — breaking them. “Our inspector was following […]