A few weeks ago, Tony Hoard, a 57-year-old manufacturing worker in Indiana, boarded a flight on Midwest Airlines to Las Vegas, Nevada, with his Australian Shepherd. The flight attendant smiled at the two and said, "Welcome aboard."
Control tower tapes reveal that the pilot of presidential hopeful Barack Obama's plane told air traffic controllers there was an emergency when he made an unscheduled landing last month in St. Louis, Missouri.
Hundreds of grounded planes. Thousands of lost jobs. Nearly two dozen price hikes. Record oil prices have battered the airline industry, and Wednesday the airlines called on Congress to act.
The financial toll and loss of goodwill likely would grow as well, as the inspection-related mess spread further to other carriers and hurt an industry already bleeding cash thanks to high fuel costs
Midwest Air Group Inc., which had been fending off hostile suitor AirTran Holdings Inc., said Friday it accepted a higher bid of about $450 million from private equity firm TPG Capital and Northwest Airlines Corp.
You're sitting on an airplane, 30,000 feet away from anything that might stimulate your taste buds. Your stomach starts to growl. You see the flight attendant wheeling the meal cart down the aisle. It's decision time. Do you dare sample these unidentified flying objects, or do you fight hunger pains for the rest of the flight?
Your child is heading off to college, and you've devised a plan to pay the big bill. But as Marc Freedman, a financial planner in Peabody, Mass., says, "parents usually plan for the expense of coll...
A few weeks ago, Tony Hoard, a 57-year-old manufacturing worker in Indiana, boarded a flight on Midwest Airlines to Las Vegas, Nevada, with his Australian Shepherd. The flight attendant smiled at the two and said, "Welcome aboard."
Control tower tapes reveal that the pilot of presidential hopeful Barack Obama's plane told air traffic controllers there was an emergency when he made an unscheduled landing last month in St. Louis, Missouri.
Hundreds of grounded planes. Thousands of lost jobs. Nearly two dozen price hikes. Record oil prices have battered the airline industry, and Wednesday the airlines called on Congress to act.
The financial toll and loss of goodwill likely would grow as well, as the inspection-related mess spread further to other carriers and hurt an industry already bleeding cash thanks to high fuel costs
Midwest Air Group Inc., which had been fending off hostile suitor AirTran Holdings Inc., said Friday it accepted a higher bid of about $450 million from private equity firm TPG Capital and Northwest Airlines Corp.
You're sitting on an airplane, 30,000 feet away from anything that might stimulate your taste buds. Your stomach starts to growl. You see the flight attendant wheeling the meal cart down the aisle. It's decision time. Do you dare sample these unidentified flying objects, or do you fight hunger pains for the rest of the flight?
Your child is heading off to college, and you've devised a plan to pay the big bill. But as Marc Freedman, a financial planner in Peabody, Mass., says, "parents usually plan for the expense of coll...
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