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		<title>Strike by engineers won&#8217;t hit flights or safety, says Qantas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jose Philip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qantas Airways, the national airline of Australia, has sought to assure passengers that the strike by the carrier’s engineers would not result in grounding any flights and asked the passengers to check departure times on mobile phones and also on its website.
Around 200 engineers who check the airworthiness of the Qantas fleet has been on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UAE drawing up blacklist of unsafe airlines</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jose Philip</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aviation safety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The aviation regulator of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is preparing a blacklist of airlines that are to be banned from using airports in the UAE owing to poor safety records or other issues of concern.
The General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) of the United Arab Emirates is making the airline blacklist in its effort to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Air India airhostess chargesheeted in molestation case, after probe</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/air-india-airhostess-chargesheeted-in-molestation-case-after-probe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Controversy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air india]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Komal Singh, an airhostess with Air India, has been issued a charge sheet for breaking the airline’s conduct rule. Singh had filed a complaint against two pilots in the same airline for molesting her. &#8220;Airhostess Komal Singh has been issued a charge sheet for violation of conduct rule and for not complying with the company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Licences of Northwest Airlines pilots who were busy with their laptops in cockpit suspended</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/licences-of-northwest-airlines-pilots-who-were-busy-with-their-laptops-in-cockpit-suspended/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jose Philip</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Controversy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trouble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aircraft accidents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[northwest airlines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pilots]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=2407</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The licences of the two airline pilots have been suspended after the incident in which they not only overflew their destination – the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport – a week ago but also was out of contact with the air traffic control (ATC) for about 80 minutes in spite of repeated calls from the ATC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Airline passenger rights activist sues Delta Air Lines for &#8216;hacking&#8217; her e-mail, personal computer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jose Philip</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Controversy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[delta air lines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A leading advocate of the rights of airline passenger has sued Delta Air Lines, based in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States, for allegedly hacking her e-mail accounts and personal computer.

Kate Hanni, founder and executive director of the Coalition for an Airline Passengers Bill of Rights (also called FlyersRights.org) alleged that Delta Air Lines did the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emirates Airlines rejects Australian newspaper report that its pilots are fatigued</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jose Philip</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Airlines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Controversy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emirates]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=2276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Emirates Airlines, the national airline of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has refuted a report that appeared in an Australian newspaper that the airline is “putting profits before safety” concerning the management of its pilots’ fatigue risk.

Richard Vaughan, Emirates Airlines’ divisional senior vice-president (commercial operations worldwide) responded to the article published in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO study revealing health risks adds impetus to US tarmac-delay legislation</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/who-study-revealing-health-risks-adds-impetus-to-us-tarmac-delay-legislation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jose Philip</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Controversy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As study conducted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has added impetus to the need to pass the airline passenger Bill (or, the tarmac delay Bill) in the United States Congress.

The WHO study, conducted in 2007 and which was cited during an unofficial hearing recently in US Congress on airline passengers’ rights, showed that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US government sues United Airlines for discriminating against the disabled</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/us-government-sues-united-airlines-for-discriminating-against-the-disabled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Controversy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[united airlines]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=1639</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The government of the United States has sued United Airlines alleging that the airline failed to place workers, who became disabled, into other jobs they still could do.

The office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in San Francisco named five plaintiffs for the class-action lawsuit. Five others appeared to be victims, too, media reports [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experts connect crash of Air France’s Flight 447 to high-speed winds and lightning</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/experts-connect-crash-of-air-france%e2%80%99s-flight-447-to-high-speed-winds-and-lightning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Air France’s Flight 447 that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on May 31, 2009, might have flown into updrafts that shook the plane and also into lightning, which together contributed in knocking the plane out of the sky, according to aviation experts.

The weather-forecasting website AccuWeather.com says that wind measurements showed that the doomed Airbus A330-200 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investigators blame maintenance crew of American Airlines for fire in engine of Flight 1400</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/investigators-blame-maintenance-crew-of-american-airlines-for-fire-in-engine-of-flight-1400/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[accidents]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=1298</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Investigators of the United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have blamed the maintenance workers of American Airlines for the emergency landing of Flight 1400 at Lambert-St Louis International Airport in St Louis, Missouri, the United States, on September 28, 2007.
The NTSB said that American Airlines’ maintenance crew failed to follow proper procedures before the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Airbus says it snooped on employees</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/airbus-says-it-snooped-on-employees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aircraft maker Airbus has admitted to spying on its staff from 2005 to 2007 in Germany as a part of a campaign to uncover potential corruption. Airbus wanted to check if the bank account numbers of its staff matched that of the suppliers. However, no cases of violation or corruption were detected.
There has been some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ATC lunch breaks may force Air New Zealand to cancel flights</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/atc-lunch-breaks-may-force-air-new-zealand-to-cancel-flights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/atc-lunch-breaks-may-force-air-new-zealand-to-cancel-flights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Air New Zealand says it would be forced to cancel 25 regional services because of air traffic controllers’ lunch break.
Air New Zealand, the national airline and flag carrier of New Zealand, has said that it will be compelled to cancel 25 regional flights each week because the staff of air traffic control will take lunch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Union may not downgrade aviation safety rating of Israel-based airlines</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/european-union-may-not-downgrade-aviation-safety-rating-of-israel-based-airlines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of Israel’s Transportation Ministry has said that the European Union does not intend to downgrade the safety rating of Israeli airlines following talks held in Brussels between the officials of the Israel Airports Authority (IAA) and a representative of the European Union over the flight safety of overseas carriers.
The statement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philippine Airlines adding extra flights to US and Canada during summer travel season</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/philippine-airlines-adding-extra-flights-to-us-and-canada-during-summer-travel-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[los angeles]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[philippine airlines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New flights will be from Manila and Caticlan in Philippines to Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vancouver

Philippine Airlines, the flag-carrier airline of the Philippines, has decided to increase the number of flights to the United States, Canada as well as flights to the country’s key domestic tourist spots during the peak summer travel season. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southwest Airlines to pay $7.5-million fine for missed safety checks</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/southwest-airlines-to-pay-75-million-fine-for-missed-safety-checks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/southwest-airlines-to-pay-75-million-fine-for-missed-safety-checks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=1051</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Southwest Airlines, the low-fare airline based in Dallas, Texas, the United States, has agreed to pay a $7.5 million in penalties for a series of serious maintenance lapses.

The lapses concerned missed checks for potential cracks in the fuselages of 46 of Southwest Airlines’ aircraft, which the United Sates Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said described as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Hero of the Hudson’ warns that pay cuts by airlines may put safety at risk</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/%e2%80%98hero-of-the-hudson%e2%80%99-warns-that-pay-cuts-by-airlines-may-put-safety-at-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/%e2%80%98hero-of-the-hudson%e2%80%99-warns-that-pay-cuts-by-airlines-may-put-safety-at-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger, who successfully landed a stricken plane of the US Airways in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009, is sad about the state of the airline industry which he said was “in disarray.”

Captain Sullenberger, who was hailed as ‘the Hero of the Hudson’ after his heroic feat that saved the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Commission investigates planned sale of Austrian Airlines to Lufthansa</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/european-commission-investigates-planned-sale-of-austrian-airlines-to-lufthansa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/european-commission-investigates-planned-sale-of-austrian-airlines-to-lufthansa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Commission has initiated an investigation into allegations that Deutsche Lufthansa, the flag-carier airline of Germany, may not have paid enough to buy Austrian Airlines, the flag carrier of Austria.

In December 2008, Lufthansa had signed a deal to buy a 41.6% stake in Austrian Airlines from the Austrian state holding company OeIAG for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Airlines inspects its MD-80 planes after damage to evacuation slides was discovered</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Airlines, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States, had to inspect and begin follow-up action in order to bring its fleet of about 270 McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft into full compliance with the safety rules after mistakes in maintenance led to damage of the passenger-evacuation slides on the rear of many MD-80 jets.

The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US court rules that TSA miscalculated screening fees for airlines, orders recalculation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal appeals court of the United States has ruled that the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) incorrectly increased annual fees that it imposes on airlines for screening of passengers and property.

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit also ordered the Transportation Security Administration to recalculate the amount of fees.
This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Union investigates Lufthansa&#8217;s plan to take over Brussels Airlines</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/european-union-investigates-lufthansas-plan-to-take-over-brussels-airlines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Union (EU) is investigating whether the proposed takeover of Brussels Airlines, the largest airline in Belgium, by Lufthansa AG, the flag-carrier airline of Germany, violates “fair and open competition” in the airline sector leading to a monopoly on some routes.

Lufthansa plans to take over Brussels Airlines, which flies to destinations in Europe and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Airbus plane that landed in Hudson River had engines which FAA had earlier ordered to inspect</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/airbus-plane-that-landed-in-hudson-river-had-engines-which-faa-had-earlier-ordered-to-inspect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been revealed that the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had ordered stringent inspection of the type of engines on the US Airways plane that splash-landed in New York&#8217;s Hudson River after a few of those engines were found to have a rare kind of stall problem known as &#8220;compression stall.&#8221;

The Federal Aviation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greenpeace Protesters buy land meant for planned third runway at Heathrow Airport</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/greenpeace-protesters-buy-land-meant-for-planned-third-runway-at-heathrow-airport/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The controversy and protests regarding building a third runway at London&#8217;s Heathrow Airport took a new turn with protestors buying the land meant for the new runway.

The environmental campaign group Greenpeace bought the land, located near Sipson village, off the the northern perimeter of London&#8217;s Heathrow Airport. The protesters wrote the words &#8220;Our Climate – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK think-tank wants &#8216;green&#8217; conditions attached to planned third runway at Heathrow Airport</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR), a think-tank based in London, the United Kingdom, has opposed the plan to build a third runway at London’s Heathrow Airport saying that the proposed runway will be a “white elephant” unless aviation is made “greener.” 

The Institute of Public Policy Research has declared that if a third runway [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Air-India sacks 10 &#8216;overweight&#8217; airhostesses</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/air-india-sacks-10-overweight-airhostesses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Air-India, the state-run carrier of India, has dismissed 10 airhostesses for being “exceptionally overweight.”

A spokesman of Air-India said: “The dismissals followed after the cabin crew were warned about meeting minimum physical fitness standards and given sufficient time to lose weight. The flight attendants were also offered alternative ground assignments, which they refused.”
Air-India said more airhostesses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Airlines, workers union seek federal mediation on wage dispute</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Airlines, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States, and the Transport Workers Union of America, the union representing thousands of ground workers, have jointly requested the services of a mediator through the National Mediation Board to resolve issues regarding wage and benefit that have remained undecided after 11 days of negotiations.

Neither side said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Zealand&#8217;s competition watchdog prosecutes 13 airlines for price-fixing</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/new-zealand-commerce-airlines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Commerce Commission of New Zealand, the country’s competition watchdog, has launched legal action against 13 airlines and 7 individuals for alleged price-fixing and “extensive and long-term cartel activity in the air-cargo market.”


The airlines to be prosecuted are: 
Air New Zealand (the national flag carrier of New Zealand)
British Airways,
Cargolux International
Cathay Pacific
Emirates
Garuda International
Japan Airlines
Korean Airlines
Malaysian Airline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australian court fines Qantas Airways and British Airways for cargo price-fixing</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/australian-court-fines-qantas-airways-and-british-airways-for-cargo-price-fixing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Court of Australia has fined Qantas Airways, Australia’s national airline, Australian $20 million (US $13.1 million) after the airline admit that it engaged in price-fixing linked to international cargo fuel surcharges.

This is the second-biggest fine levied on an individual company by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for price-fixing.
The Federal Court of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Argentina plans to sieze Aerolíneas Argentinas from Spanish group Marsans</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/argentina-plans-to-sieze-aerolineas-argentinas-from-spanish-group-marsans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawmakers of Argentina have approved a draft Bill to seize back Aerolíneas Argentinas, the largest domestic and international airline in Argentina and also the country’s flag carrier, and its domestic subsidiary Austral airline from its present owners, the Spanish group Marsans.

The Argentine government’s move to seize back Aerolíneas Argentinas without compensation came after negotiations with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obese, disabled will get two seats for one fare in Canadian carriers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canada’s highest court has upheld a ruling that obese and disabled people have the right to two seats for the price of one seat on domestic flights.

The Supreme Court of Canada, the highest court of Canada, rejected an appeal by the Canada-based airlines that opposed giving two seats for the price of one to people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US court issues order against pilots union of United Airlines</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[United Airlines, a subsidiary of UAL Corporation with corporate offices in Chicago, the United States, has won a preliminary court injunction against a pilots’ trade union preventing it from taking industrial action against the airline.
US District Court Judge Joan H Lefkow ruled that that a sickout and work slowdowns by some pilots of United Airlines [...]]]></description>
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