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TSA and ALPA Announce Enhanced Security Initiative for Airline Crews
Fri, 07 Aug '09
Biometrics Will Be Used To Identify Airline Crews
TSA announced Wednesday it has set the standards for the CrewPASS program, paving the way for nationwide expansion. CrewPASS is an initiative that...
Looks like you have to now buy earbuds from Uflymic if you want to keep using this headset. Does anyone know if you can use the earbuds and the mic without the Qc2 headset or do you have to basically have two headsets on now to use this thing?
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On our company message board some flight attendants are saying that the main cabin door must remain open until all the passengers are seated with their seat belts on and all the overhead bins are closed. They say it is an FAR.
Does anybody on here know if this is correct and can they point to...
Hi,
I have to get a passport. The state department website says that you can get them on the same day if you are travelling within two weeks and make an appointment to go to the passport processing center in your city (in my case Chicago).
Anybody on here had any luck doing this? Does it...
So we're sitting at ORD this morning waiting to de-ice and over hear an argument between a "Gateway" flight and United de-icing dispatch.
It's -2 celsius outside and actively snowing.
The gojets crew asks for Type 4 only, no Type 1 de-ice, and are immediately told by UAL that this is not...
By Michelle Keller
Tribune staff reporter
Published January 12, 2007, 8:02 PM CST
Living in the shadow of Midway Airport, Archer Heights residents are used to ignoring the roar of planes overhead. But the loud thud that appeared to come from inside Dorothy Gohn's house early Friday woke her...
Airline reaches out to passenger stung by scorpion
By Emma Graves Fitzsimmons
Tribune staff reporter
Published January 10, 2007, 7:18 PM CST
United Airlines apologized to a man who was stung twice by a scorpion that sneaked into his pant leg aboard a flight that departed from O'Hare...
Airmen: Say Bye Bye to Paper Certificates
Under FAA rulemaking proposed Friday, two years after a final rule becomes effective, paper pilot certificates could no longer be used and five years after the final rule becomes effective, certain other paper airmen certificates, such as those of flight...
So I was planning on commuting home tomorrow, have been in the sim so don't even have a uniform with me. Have you guys been having problems? Do you have to check all your bags now? Please share your experiences so myself and others know what to look forward to.
Thanks.
Couple of questions that a search was unable to answer.
Do you fly 200s and 700s when based in ORD? Do the lines have a mixture of both a/c or do you bid for the equipment separately?
How many lines/reserve lines are there in ORD? and are many of those lines day trips?
Lastly, the packet...
By GERALDINE FABRIKANT -NY TIMES
Published: June 25, 2006
CHOWING on salads and sipping San Pellegrino water at the Santa Monica, Calif., airport two weeks ago, a well-heeled group of travelers compared notes on a fleet of spiffy Hawkers, Gulfstreams and Citations that NetJets, which peddles...
This was in the NY Times today. I thought it was worth sharing with people who are looking to join the ranks of airline employees who commute.
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Extreme Commutes Grow Longer in Air Industry
By JEFF BAILEY
Published: June 11...
On the CRJ we would get V1 from the speedcards for the given takeoff weight. The runway analysis received from ARINC via ACARS would contain a MAX V1 which would limit the V1 to a lower speed if the runway is contaminated (snow/ice etc...).
I'm in training on the EMB145 right now and as far...
CHICAGO, May 20 — Brace yourself for a summer of miserable air travel.
Planes are expected to be packed fuller than at anytime since World War II, when the airlines helped transport troops. Fares are rising. Service frills are disappearing.
Logjams at airport security checkpoints loom as the...
http://www.jetlink.lu/download/programs/CRJ-200_FOP.pdf
I just came across this on Pprune.org 46K euros for a CRJ type rating and 500 hours in the right seat.
Is this what we will be in for if the DOT allows foreign ownership of US Airlines?!
Talk of Our Town
Airline isn't laughing about training video
By JOAN FLEISCHMAN
[email protected]
Something special in the air: an amusing American Airlines training video in which a Miami-based flight attendant demonstrates his techniques for getting even with passengers who...
http://www.theairlinehub.com/personal_travel_stories/
I stumbled across this blog by accident. Thought the crew who flew it might find it entertaining - if they happen to visit flightinfo.com
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"I made it home safely the...
Hey west coast folks.
I'm connecting through LAX this weekend on the way to New Zealand and am looking for a hotel nearby that offers an airline crew discount.
We are travelling with our 2 yr old boy so thought a nice place to go rest up after flying transcon, and before flying...
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