Alitalia aims to relaunch as a slimmed down airline in just weeks, a government official said on Saturday, after once-reluctant pilots' unions agreed to a rescue plan by a group of Italian investors. The breakthrough deal with pilots followed overnight, government-brokered talks and was a major victory for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who was elec...
A New York judge grants a preliminary injunction sought by Bravo owner NBC Universal, which claims that producer Weinstein Co. had broken a promise to give it an option to renew. By Meg James, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer September 27, 2008 Project Runway's bolt to Lifetime Networks has hit a snag. In a blow to the cable network and Wei...
The airport serving Alaska's capital city doesn't have to worry about bears coming around anytime soon. Juneau International Airport had to be evacuated Friday afternoon because of an accidental discharge of anti-bear spray. The chemical comes in a canister like pepper spray but is used to defend against attacking bears. Fire Chief Er...
Pilots coming in to land at British airports have been forced to hand over the controls to colleagues after being temporarily blinded by laser beams deliberately shone into the cockpit from the ground. The perpetrators are thought to be using high-intensity laser guns imported from China and Russia which can be bought over the internet for as little as...
Etihad Airways is to start flights next year to Nigeria from Abu Dhabi. The airline will operate four services a week to Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, and Abuja, the country’s capital city. A start date for the new flights has yet to be determined but the airline may begin the service in March 2009. The “triangular” flights, between Abu Dhabi, ...
A new study urges wider use of short sea shipping to reduce highway congestion and pollution. The now underused deep blue highway could provide resilience and improve the environmental performance of the nation's transportation system, said a study from the Institute for Global Maritime Studies, entitled America's Deep Blue Highway: How Coastal Shippi...
Alpine Air Express Inc. said it has added four additional Beech 1900 aircraft, growing its fleet to 29. The Provo, Utah-based company said this increased its lift capacity by nearly 20 percent. Alpine services 94 daily departures to areas of North Dakota and South Dakota, Montana, Hawaii, Nebraska and Colorado. The company carries cargo for the U.S. P...
FedEx Corp. said it has increased daily capacity in and out of Vietnam five-fold by launching a new Airbus A310 flight service. The change means customers will see improvement in transit times into and out of Hanoi of one day. Customer cutoff and transit times out of Ho Chi Minh City are unchanged. FedEx established operations in Vietnam in 1994. ...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
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