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A Northwest plane overshot a runway by 100 miles
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Fri, Oct 23 2009 | 1 Comment
The National Transportation Safety Board is looking into exactly why a Northwest Airlines airplane that was headed to Minneapolis would have overshot the airport by more than 100 miles this week.
Northwest Flight 188 was on its way to Minneapolis from San Diego when it lost radio contact with air traffic controllers. While the radio was out, the plane flew right over the airport and failed to land. Once the radio was working again, the plane was able to turn around and land safely at the airport.
There have been a couple of rumors floating around suggesting that the flight crew were arguing and that was the reason for the radio black out. Then again, there were other rumors suggesting that they simply fell asleep.
This isn’t the first issue that Delta Airlines (which now owns Northwest Airlines) has had in the past few weeks. Just last week, a Delta flight was flying from Brazil to the company’s hub at Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport and it landed on a taxiway instead of the runway, which was right next to it. The crew had been flying all night and landed the plane in the dark. Luckily, no one was injured in this incident either.
Both incidents happened right as the Federal Aviation Administration began reviewing and updating rules as to how long a pilot can fly over a given amount of time.
Plane incidents like this can be avoided by the FAA simply putting the rules into place now. People shouldn’t be falling asleep while they’re operating an airplane. If they could take shifts (like any other kind of job) then perhaps this wouldn’t happen. More people are feeling as though they have to outperform everyone now just so that they can keep their jobs.
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Delta decides to charge more to check a second bag to cut losses
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Tue, Apr 21 2009 | 2 CommentsDelta Airlines has just chosen the most inefficient way to cut costs imaginable, to raise the fee on the “second checked bag.”
In an attempt to generate some $100 million in annual revenue, Delta (NYSE: DAL) said it will charge customers a $50 fee to check a second bag on international flights starting July 1. The so-called “unbundling” of services, which includes baggage fees, has been a strong source of revenue for the carrier. So-called “other” net revenue grew 18 percent, or $137 million, largely from baggage fees.
The 747-200 freighters were acquired through the carrier’s merger with Northwest Airlines Corp. Company officials said the planes would likely be sold.
The airline reported a net loss of $794 million and a loss per share of 96 cents, compared with a loss of $6.4 billion and a loss per share of $16.15 in the first quarter of 2008. It is the sixth consecutive quarterly loss for Delta.
Delta’s performance beat analysts’ expectations of about a $1 per share loss.
As another cost cutting measure, Delta plans to ground 50 jets, which includes its entire fleet of 14 Boeing 747-200 freighter aircraft beginning December 31, 2009 due to inefficiency. It will also be grounding 30 Bombardier CRJ aircraft and several “less efficient” Boeing 757 and MD-88.
The grounding of these aircraft is not the problem I have with what is going on at Delta, it is the fact that the company feels the need to charge the consumer more and more for a service they received yesterday at a cheaper price that bothers me.
Hey Delta, take a page from Southwest and perhaps you’ll end up actually turning a profit.
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Northwest and Delta pilots approve merger.
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Tue, Aug 12 2008 | 0 CommentsNorthwest and Delta airlines are set to merge sometime before the end of the year. Today pilots voted for the merger, but have yet to agree on an integration of seniority in the new merged company.
On April 14, 2008 Delta announced the stock-swap deal to take over Northwest airlines. This would make them the world’s largest airline in terms of traffic.
Delta has also told some Northwest hubs that they would not be losing any jobs. However, with rising fuel costs, job cuts seem inevitable.
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JetBlue CEO cuts salary in half
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Tue, Jul 29 2008 | 0 CommentsDavid Barger became the CEO of JetBlue, a low cost airline, last year and accepted an annual salary of $500,000. While the salary cut is only active between July and December, it is his way of trying to help his company and its employees. The company posted a $7 million quarterly loss last week.
This is really not something you see everyday. His salary of $500,000 is still less than American Airlines CEO Gerard Arpey who was paid $656,500 in 2007 or Delta Airlines CEO Richard Anderson’s $600,000 for 2007.
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