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		<title>Licences of Northwest Airlines pilots who were busy with their laptops in cockpit suspended</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jose Philip</dc:creator>
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		<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>US House of Representatives passes Airline Safety and Pilot Training Improvement Act of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jose Philip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States House of Representatives has passed the Airline Safety and Pilot Training Improvement Act of 2009.

The Bill – which was passed 409-11 – is intended, among other things, to beef up regulations on pilot qualifications, pilot training, pilot work schedules, and to formulate new strategies to deal with pilot fatigue.
The Airline Safety and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia&#8217;s aviation pioneer Nancy-Bird Walton names Qantas Airbus A380 Superjumbo after her</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qantas Airways, Australia’s largest airline, has named its new Airbus A380 Superjumbo, the world’s largest passenger aircraft, after Nancy Bird-Walton, Australia’s first woman commercial pilot.

The 92-year-old Nancy herself performed the christening of the plane at a ceremony held at Sydney Airport on September 29, 2008.
Nancy Bird, who learnt to fly in 1933 when she was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pilots who slept during flight get their license back after FAA suspension</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The two pilots who shocked the airline industry by dozing off during a flight and sending air traffic controllers into panic mode have now received their licenses back.

The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had suspended the licences of two pilots of go! airline for having fallen asleep during a flight from Honolulu to Hilo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SriLankan Airlines appoints first Lady Captain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marking a significant milestone in the Sri Lanka’s aviation history, SriLankan Airlines has appointed its first woman captain, Anusha Siriratne.
According to Manoj Gunawardena, CEO, SriLankan Airlines, said: &#8221; This is a significant event for the national carrier. Sri Lanka has been in the forefront of women&#8217;s empowerment and it is certainly high time that a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AirTran Airways to lay off 169 pilots</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to trim its workforce and cuts costs, AirTran Airways, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, the United States, has decided to lay off 169 pilots with effect from September 3, 2008.
The pilots to be furloughed have worked less than a year for AirTran Airways and are still on probation, the airline said in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United Airlines sues pilots union for ‘deliberate slowdown’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[United Airlines has moved court seeking to stop an alleged slowdown by its pilots union. The lawsuit filed by United Airlines – a major airline of the United States and a subsidiary of UAL Corporation – has accused that the Air Line Pilots Association and “certain” of its pilots of engaging “in deliberate, organised and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United Airlines to lay off 950 pilots</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=95</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[United Airlines, the second-biggest airline in the United States, is planning to lay off 950 pilots, which is 15% of its total number of pilots. In a statement, the company said that it had to take “a difficult, but necessary step to reduce the number of people we have to run our business” in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Zealand may ban laser pointers as ‘laser attacks’ on aircraft increases</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/new-zealand-may-ban-laser-pointers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As more people point laser pointers at aircraft, more aircrafts and pilots are affected
The Government of New Zealand is thinking about banning high-powered laser pointers after there has been a big increase in the number of people targeting the devices at aircraft, seriously affecting the vision of pilots. There have been about 35 such incidents [...]]]></description>
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