ACCORDING to the Air Carrier Access Act, pigs might indeed fly.
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He added that the air carrier carried 106 million passengers last year.
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The discount air carrier is giving away 1,000 one-way "return" flights.
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The discount air carrier is giving away 218,153 one-way "return" flights.
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We want to be the premier air carrier for the experience economy.
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Dao sued United and reached an undisclosed settlement with the air carrier.
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Shares of Canada's second-largest air carrier were up 0.8 percent on Friday.
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The air carrier has more service to Asia than any other U.S. airline.
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The air carrier also announced the approval of a 15 percent dividend hike.
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Air carrier Qantas, which posted a record annual profit, was 2.6 percent firmer.
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In 1985 the air carrier flew only domestic; its longest flight was to Hawaii.
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Compensation cannot be more than "50 times the median compensation earned by all employees of such air carrier in calendar year 2019," and severance or separation benefits can not exceed "the maximum total compensation received from the air carrier in calendar year 2019."
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She uses the Sleepypod Air carrier, since it is the longest carrier that meets airline requirements.
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Under the Air Carrier Access Act, commercial airlines must accommodate service animals without charging a fee.
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The US Transportation Department has proposed changes to its Air Carrier Access Act service animal rule.
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Instead, they criticized the national air carrier for relying on superstitions rather than good engineering practices.
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Each air carrier is required to have one or more available on site or by phone.
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The INSIDER Summary: Budget air carrier IndiGo just announced kid-free Quiet Zones on its flights.
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In December 2013, the Norwegian Group submitted Norwegian Air International's application for a foreign air carrier permit.
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Emotional support animals are allowed in cabins free of charge under the 1986 Air Carrier Access Act.
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Wing, an initiative of Google's parent company Alphabet, has received Air Carrier Certification from the Federal Aviation Administration.
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Wing was granted an air carrier certification, which clears it to make commercial deliveries in the United States.
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Onex Partners agreed to acquire WestJet Airlines, Canada's second-largest air carrier, for C$3.5 billion (~$2.6 billion).
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It has a national air carrier in Qantas that has already experimented with various kinds of aviation biofuels.
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These animals can fly free of charge and without a carrier under the 1986 Air Carrier Access Act.
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Low-cost air carrier French Bee is launching a new route between Paris-Orly and Newark Liberty International.
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It can mean the air carrier did not follow its own repair and inspection procedures and was penalized.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the name of the air carrier that American Airlines merged with.
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The agreement will allow the air carrier to "maintain a full December schedule as planned," the group said.
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Support and service animals fly free of charge and without a carrier under the 1986 Air Carrier Access Act.
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A deal would immediately vault Alaska to the number 5 U.S. air carrier, a spot currently occupied by JetBlue.
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Under the 1986 Air Carrier Access Act, support and service animals are allowed into the cabin free of charge.
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In March 2019, United Airlines made history as the first U.S. air carrier to offer non-binary gender options.
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Priceline acquired Agoda in 2007, and Expedia set up a joint venture with regional air carrier AirAsia for APAC strategy.
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Both emotional support animals and assistance animals are protected under the Air Carrier Access Act and the Fair Housing Act.
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The Air Carrier Access Act allows both assistance animals and emotional support animals to travel on planes with their owners.
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The Air Carrier Access Act states airlines are not required to accept snakes, reptiles, ferrets, rodents, sugar gliders or spiders.
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The air carrier vowed to reduce its environmental impact and commit $1 billion over the next decade to the mission.
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American Airlines is the first air carrier to issue the restrictions for smart bags, but other airlines could follow suit.
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Southwest Airlines (LUV) – The air carrier reported a 5003 percent increase in revenue passenger miles in November from a year earlier.
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The plan outlines that the company will emerge as a single air carrier under the name Republic Airline Inc, it said.
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Taiwanese international air carrier Eva Airways Corp said it had canceled 42 round-trip flights, which will affect nearly 10,000 passengers.
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When the Air Carrier Access Act was passed in 1986, it outlawed discrimination in air travel on the basis of disability.
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The Australian air carrier has tapped Washington law firm Wiley Rein to lobby on the proposed alliance, according to disclosure forms.
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Emotional-support and service animals can fly free of charge and without a carrier under the 1986 Air Carrier Access Act.
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"It's all meant to be at the level of reliability that you would expect from an air carrier," Sunde tells TechCrunch.
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Under the 1986 Air Carrier Access Act, support and service animals will still be allowed into the cabin free of charge.
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There was no effect on air carrier operations to Hawaii on Wednesday, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said in an email.
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Meanwhile, Google's Wing program has already received air carrier certification from the Federal Aviation Administration to make commercial drone deliveries in Virginia.
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Two years later, however, the DOT still has not issued a final ruling on NAI's application for a foreign air carrier permit.
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American, the world's largest air carrier, has rebooked all customers on 40 canceled flights so far as a result of the groundings.
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Wall Street cheered on Thursday after Delta Air Lines, the second-largest U.S. air carrier, reported better-than-expected first-quarter earnings.
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Tuesday awarded the first air carrier certification to a drone delivery company, Google spinoff Wing Aviation.
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Flybe buys Finnish Commuter Airlines (Finncomm) Finland's largest domestic air carrier, in a newly formed joint venture with Finnair, Finland's flag carrier.
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The Abu Dhabi-based air carrier had already reduced the daily flight route down to three times a week earlier this year.
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It applied for a Foreign Air Carrier permit from the US Department of Transportation that year, which was granted in early 2019.
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Despite strong earnings from United Airlines this week, the air carrier, along with Delta, has cut flights to the U.K. citing Brexit concerns.
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This means NAUK can't fly to and from the U.S. while waiting for the official ruling on their foreign air carrier permit. Wait.
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Unions at Poland's national air carrier LOT are threatening to strike on May 1 due to a conflict with the management regarding remuneration.
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Shares of Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd fell 21.6%, while Japan Airlines Co dropped 21% and rival air carrier ANA Holdings Inc declined 1.84%.
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Washington put Syria's national air carrier under embargo in 2013 for transporting weapons and ammunition to Syria with Hezbollah and Iran's revolutionary guards.
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The bill establishes an air carrier certificate for operators of small unmanned aircraft and requires a federal assessment of the small drone registration system.
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AMSTERDAM, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Dutch air carrier KLM will cancel 159 European flights to and from Amsterdam on Tuesday due to an expected storm.
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Boeing, which is allowed to sell aircraft to Iran under the deal, would potentially drop plans to deliver planes to the national air carrier.
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But airline cabins are governed by the Air Carrier Access Act, which was enacted in 1986 and does not carry as many accessibility requirements.
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In 2012, 45 people were killed after a Superjet plane crashed in Indonesia during a promotional flight, causing air carrier Aeroflot to ground four planes.
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O'Rourke's plan would direct the Department of Transportation to "diligently enforce" the Air Carrier Access Act (ACCA), which bans discrimination on the basis of disability.
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For instance, FAA inspectors failed to recognize that Republic Airways Holdings was in financial distress before the air carrier filed for bankruptcy, the report said.
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Luxon, the council's chair and CEO of the country's national air carrier, would put together a team of business leaders in the next few weeks.
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Budget air carrier IndiGo recently announced kid-free Quiet Zones on its flights, adding to an ever-growing list of airlines creating adults-only spaces.
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"It's coming from all over," said John E. Gould, president of 10 Tanker Air Carrier, who started his career fighting fires in Alaska in the 1970s.
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In April, an Amazon competitor — Alphabet-owned Wing — became the first drone delivery company in the US to get Air Carrier Certification from the Federal Aviation Administration.
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What they do: Pilot and navigate the flight of fixed-wing, multi-engine aircraft, usually on scheduled air carrier routes, for the transport of passengers and cargo.
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It would require airlines and ticket agents to notify customers on whether their air carrier allows passengers to make in-flight voice calls using mobile wireless devices.
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"Viene de todas partes", dijo John E. Gould, presidente de 22004 Tanker Air Carrier, quien comenzó su trayectoria profesional combatiendo incendios en Alaska en los años setenta.
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On April 15, 2016, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) tentatively approved a foreign air carrier permit for an Irish-flag subsidiary of Norwegian Air International (NAI).
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In April, Wing was the first drone operator to be certified as an air carrier by the Federal Aviation Administration, which allows it to deliver commercial goods.
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However, in April, Alphabet's Wing received a Part 135 Single pilot air carrier certificate, which basically trusts a single Wing employee to fly drones, not the whole company.
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BUENOS AIRES, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Argentina's flagship air carrier Aerolineas Argentinas has discontinued its weekly flight to Caracas, Venezuela, citing "operational reasons," the company said in a statement.
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Workers at Mexico's largest air carrier will be trained to detect and report signs of trafficking by Mexico's National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), Aeromexico said in a statement.
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Earlier this year, Alphabet's Wing, the sister unit of search engine Google, was the first company to get U.S. air carrier certification for a single-pilot drone operation.
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Earlier this year, Alphabet's Wing, a sister unit of search engine Google, was the first company to get U.S. air carrier certification for a single-pilot drone operation.
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Emotional support animals are allowed in cabins free of charge under the 1986 Air Carrier Access Act, which stands in the way of airlines barring the animals altogether.
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A flight by Israel's national air carrier El Al to Argentina next month would be a historic first, if it were not for Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.
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Regulators determined last month that American Airlines had violated the Air Carrier Access Act — roughly the equivalent of the Americans With Disabilities Act, but applicable to the airlines.
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Southwest Airlines — Evercore downgraded Southwest to "in-line" from "outperform", pointing to the negative impact that the grounding of Boeing's 737 MAX jet has had on the air carrier.
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The changes come as the Department of Transportation is considering new restrictions on emotional-support animals, which fly for free in cabins under the 1986 Air Carrier Access Act.
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However, the Court of Appeal ruling found that despite this, Monarch was still an air carrier when slots fell to be allocated last month and in fact remains one.
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This was on a United Express flight, meaning the flight crew and agents work for a totally separate air carrier that flies smaller planes under contract by United Airlines.
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In the United States, the Transportation Department considers life-threatening food allergies a disability under the Air Carrier Access Act, which prohibits discrimination based on disability in air transportation.
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Although individual airlines have policies that bar many of these creatures from boarding, the Air Carrier Access Act, established in 1986, prohibits commercial airlines from discriminating against passengers with disabilities.
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The Qataris even worry about their national air carrier, which has been forced, since its Arab neighbours imposed an embargo in 2017, to route hundreds of daily flights over Iran.
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" The rule requiring disclosure of other fees "would require airlines to incur significant costs to implement when airlines already provide significant amounts of data on air carrier ancillary fee revenue.
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"Given your commitment to protecting American jobs, I strongly urge you to revoke or suspend the Norwegian Air International foreign air carrier permit," Reed wrote in a letter to Trump.
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There were reports of travelers stranded at airports and sleeping on floors without knowing whether their airline was going to provide food, hotel vouchers or seats on another air carrier.
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After today's FAA Air Carrier Certification, Wing will be able to do the same thing in the U.S., though it's not immediately clear which will be the company's first delivery partners.
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What they do according to O*NET: Navigate and pilot the flight of fixed-wing, multi-engine aircraft, usually on scheduled air-carrier routes, for the transport of passengers and cargo.
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Over the summer, Dutch air carrier KLM launched an environmental campaign that obliquely acknowledged the flying shame movement, encouraging customers to "fly responsibly" and to be judicious about their air travel.
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A spokesperson for Boeing, Caroline Hutcheson, confirmed to CNN that the two 747-8 aircraft were originally destined for the now defunct Russian air carrier Transaero, which went bankrupt in October 2015.
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Last year, Australian air carrier Qantas partnered with Samsung to make the Gear headset available to premium passengers on some long-distance flights, giving travelers snapshots of premier tourist locations in Australia.
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It would have barred the Department of Transportation from allowing a foreign air carrier to operate between European countries and the U.S. unless the carrier complies with U.S. or EU labor standards.
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The bill would bar the DOT from allowing a foreign air carrier to operate between European countries and the United States unless the carrier complies with basic U.S. or EU labor standards.
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The announcement comes after Emirates, a rival Persian Gulf air carrier, announced that it was cutting back on U.S. flights in response to "weakened travel demand" because of the Trump administration's policies.
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There's even a perk from JetSuiteX, a semi-private air carrier that will transport the rich and famous for the price you pay to sit near the bathroom on a commercial airline.
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Skepticism surrounding emotional support animals has increased with their rising numbers, especially at airports, where another law — the Air Carrier Access Act — gives airlines wide latitude over how various creatures are handled.
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The global load factor, which measures how much of an airline's passenger carrying capacity is used, hit a 10-year high of 80.2 percent in 2015 because of improved air carrier optimization.
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This demand has become more urgent than ever as an Obama administration decision granting foreign air carrier status to Norwegian Air International (NAI) is set to go into effect on Jan. 29.
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The type of certification Wing received as an air carrier is the same one granted to charter airlines and small air-cargo haulers and means it can fly longer ranges and charge customers.
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Southwest Airlines is the most recent air carrier to announce an overhaul to its pet policy, following in the footsteps of Delta and United, both of whom made similar announcements earlier this year.
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Your bid must be made at least 271 hours before your flight, and depending on your air carrier, you will know if you've won the auction between 24 and 48 hours before boarding.
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It continues, saying the FAA is not able to determine how often pilots use automated flight as opposed to manual flying and has not ensured that pilots receive adequate manual air carrier training.
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The Dubai-based air carrier, which has eleven daily scheduled flights to U.S. cities, has made "the necessary adjustments to our crewing, to comply with the latest requirements," an Emirates spokeswoman told Reuters.
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Congressional staff also received an email saying that Avianca Airlines, a Colombian air carrier, has created an online page where the hundreds of Americans stranded in Peru can sign up for flights home.
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The statement included the U.S. Travel Association, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Airlines for America, the American Hotel and Lodging Association, the National Restaurant Association and the National Air Carrier Association, among others.
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"These enhancements will result in more consistent inspection practices and will improve the detection of systemic deficiencies and increase the effectiveness of air carrier safety oversight performed by the FAA," the letter said.
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Alex Jacquot recently penned a letter to Qantas, the largest domestic and international air carrier in Australia, to ask CEO Alan Joyce, what advice he'd give to get an airline company off the ground.
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Labor unions and many lawmakers have long argued that Norwegian is undermining American workers and say they're not giving up on their fight to have the airline's foreign air carrier permit suspended or revoked.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Spanish tourism and transportation company Grupo Globalia will launch a new air carrier in Brazil, Brazilian Infrastructure Minister Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas said in a message posted on Twitter on Saturday.
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Under the federal Air Carrier Access Act, passengers are allowed to bring animals aboard by showing a letter from a mental health clinician or doctor asserting that the pet is part of their therapy.
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The bill, H.R. 5090, would bar the DOT from allowing a foreign air carrier to operate between European countries and the United States unless the carrier complies with basic U.S. or EU labor standards.
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"At its core, this case is about the unexplained disappearance of a passenger plane operated by Malaysia Airlines as part of its national air carrier fleet following its departure from a Malaysian airport," Jackson wrote.
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S. citizen visitors prior to boarding" … "therefore, facial images will be collected for U.S. citizens as part of this test so that CBP can verify the identity of a U.S. citizen boarding the air carrier.
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The Air Carrier Access Act then said service animals could fly in the cabin with passengers, while also opening the door to broader range of emotional-support animals, which assist passengers with mental-health issues.
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Even with the restrictions, the drones' backers portrayed the F.A.A.'s approval, called an Air Carrier Certification, as game changing, particularly as regulations, technology and public aversion have slowed the progress of drone-delivery initiatives.
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The company applied for a foreign air carrier permit for one of its subsidiaries, Norwegian Air UK, in order to gain access to more airports covered under the U.S. and European Union's Open Skies agreement.
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"In my view, granting NAI an air carrier permit would violate the agreement we have in place to protect our aviation system stakeholders from unfair labor practices," Larsen said in a statement to The Hill.
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Promises Made A focus on Boeing after two fatal crashes has given cover to an Indonesian air carrier with global ambitions — a company that will neither fully admit to, nor swiftly address, its safety issues.
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Norwegian Air Shuttle's UK subsidiary on Monday received a tentative U.S. foreign air carrier permit, prevailing against U.S. airlines who complained that the Scandinavian budget carrier would undercut them and hurt American businesses and jobs.
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The approval is an important one, given that this marks the first time the FAA has granted a so-called air-carrier certification for drone delivery of items such as food, medicine, and small consumer products.
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SAO PAULO, May 18 (Reuters) - Spanish tourism and transportation company Grupo Globalia will launch a new air carrier in Brazil, Brazilian Infrastructure Minister Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas said in a message posted on Twitter on Saturday.
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The Fair Housing Act and the Air Carrier Access Act exempts those with ESAs from paying pet deposits or being denied housing because of their ESA, which had lead to some pet owners abusing these rights.
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The inevitable downside is that the bill also prohibits states from regulating the "price, route or service of an air carrier," which is why there are no laws protecting consumers from the current oligopoly of airlines.
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The third-largest U.S. air carrier will invest more than $2 billion a year in more fuel-efficient aircraft, expanding its use of low-carbon biofuels in daily flights and implementing ways to better conserve fuel.
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The Obama administration pushed for rulemaking last year to require airlines and ticket agents to at least notify customers about whether their air carrier allows passengers to make in-flight voice calls using mobile wireless devices.
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BELGRADE, March 16 (Reuters) - Montenegro on Monday temporarily halted flights of its national air carrier Montenegro Airlines and all international railway and bus lines, in an effort to pre-empt the onset of the coronavirus outbreak.
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LaudaMotion is the company through which former motor racing champion Niki Lauda re-acquired in January 2018 the assets of NIKI, the leisure air carrier he founded in 2003 and which was later integrated into Air Berlin.
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The department said that Wing demonstrated it met the FAA's safety standards to qualify for an air carrier certificate because of extensive data and documentation and thousands of flights the company conducted in Australia in recent years.
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CAPE TOWN, Sept 7 (Reuters) - South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Wednesday he wanted the loss-making, state-owned national air carrier to become financially viable in five years' time and to discontinue unprofitable routes.
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The sale to IAG, which had been in exclusive talks to acquire the airline, appeared to mark the final chapter in the demise of Air Berlin, the former No.2 German air carrier that earlier owned Niki.
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Though Turkish Airlines is usually not the first brand that comes to mind when talking about superheroes, it's not the first time that a Hollywood film has teamed up with an air carrier for a promotional deal.
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Lawmakers are urging President Trump to put the brakes on an Emirates flight route that will soon begin flying between the U.S. and Greece, raising concern about an air carrier that receives billions of dollars in state subsidies.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Norwegian Air Shuttle's UK subsidiary on Monday received a tentative U.S. foreign air carrier permit, prevailing against U.S. airlines who complained that the Scandinavian budget carrier would undercut them and hurt American businesses and jobs.
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Along with A85033A, the letter was signed by the Air Line Pilots Association, Airport Restaurant & Retail Association, Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, International Air Transport Association, National Air Carrier Association and the Travel Technology Association, among other groups.
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While Mr. Macron's economic changes do not take aim at the nation's flagship air carrier, his administration has inserted itself directly into the fight, warning labor leaders that they risked driving Air France to the brink of calamity.
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"Air Canada, the only Canadian air carrier that operates in the region covered by the FAA NOTAM, has altered its routes to ensure the security of its flights into and over the Middle East," the transport authority said.
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Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio told unions last week that the economy ministry and state-controlled rail operator Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) could between them take a more than 50 percent stake in the struggling air carrier.
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While airports have to be ADA compliant, air planes are actually under the purview of the Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA)— not the ADA—and the Department of Transportation's current ACAA regulations require airlines to recognize emotional support animals.
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Despite NAI's overt use of a flag of convenience, the U.S. Department of Transportation gave this arrangement a stamp of approval on April 15, tentatively deciding to issue NAI a foreign air carrier permit for permanent service to the United States.
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The sale to IAG, which had been in exclusive talks for the airline, is the final chapter in the demise of Air Berlin, the No. 2 German air carrier that previously owned Niki and filed for insolvency earlier this year.
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In addition to the changes in the retail sector, the government also said it would allow up to 49 percent of Air India, the troubled national air carrier that is now up for sale, to be bought by foreign airlines.
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But the Allied Pilots Association (APA), the union representing American Airlines's pilots, worked with the air carrier over the weekend to strike a deal that will allow pilots to be paid double their normal pay rate during that time period.
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Despite making vague promises of improvements after last year's accident, the air carrier has neither fully acknowledged nor expeditiously addressed the concerns that have been raised about its safety practices, both by government investigators and whistle-blowers interviewed by The Times.
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Alphabet's Wing Aviation unit on Tuesday got the okay to start delivering goods by drone in Virginia later this year, making the sister unit of search engine Google the first company to get U.S. air carrier certification, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
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" In a statement on Wednesday, a spokesperson for Southwest told PEOPLE: "Southwest Airlines takes pride in making air travel accessible to customers who require assistance when flying with us and is committed to full compliance with regulations under the Air Carrier Access Act.
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None of the companies had previously mentioned lobbying on the issue in the last five years, with the exception of Alaska Airlines, which started working on the "topic of renewal of U.S. commercial air carrier service between U.S. and Cuba" in 2015.
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The chief executive of United Airlines, Oscar Munoz, became a casualty of the public relations crisis gripping the air carrier, as the company that runs the airline said on Friday that he would not ascend as planned to the role of chairman.
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"The DOT's decision to deny an exemption for Norwegian UK is particularly important as the department continues to consider the Norwegian Air International (NAI) foreign air carrier permit," Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants, said in a statement on Thursday.
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"Substantial damage to air carrier aircraft is extremely rare, but there have been a couple of cases where turbulence was so severe that an engine was torn off its pylon," says Robert Sharman, a professor and project scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
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The No. 3 U.S. air carrier is forging ahead with a strategy to boost its flight network by another 4 percent to 6 percent next year after an estimated 5 percent network growth in 2018, Munoz, CEO of United Airlines since 20173, said on Wednesday.
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The announcements come as Amazon and Google face off in other arenas of the retail world: The FAA announced in April it had approved Wing, the drone delivery carrier spun off from Alphabet's Google, as the first air carrier certified for drone delivery -- and beating out Amazon.
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WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Wing Aviation unit on Tuesday got the okay to start delivering goods by drone in Virginia later this year, making the sister unit of search engine Google the first company to get U.S. air carrier certification, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
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If you've been following the issue, you know about the promising news last week that the DOT denied Norwegian Air UK's (NAUK) foreign air carrier permit exemption due to "novel and complex" issues and that granting the exemption would not be in the public's best interest.
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"The C.D.C. is using the Covid-19 outbreak to make airlines spend hundreds of millions of dollars to create new systems or modify old systems," the lobbying groups wrote in the letter, which was also signed by the Regional Airline Association and the National Air Carrier Association.
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Under the Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA), a service animal is any animal that is individually trained or able to provide assistance to a person with a disability; or any animal that assists persons with disabilities by providing emotional support, according to the Department of Transportation.
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Wing was able to do this with a new Air Carrier Certificate from the FAA that clears it for expanded service, specifically allowing Wing's pilots to manage multiple aircraft flying without any human pilot on board at the same time, while providing service to the public.
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Earlier this year, Wing became one of the first drone operators to be certified as a commercial air carrier by the Federal Aviation Administration, allowing it to autonomously deliver commercial goods to recipients that may be miles away and not in the operator's line of sight.
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The airline says its new policy aligns with the US Department of Transportation's Air Carrier Access Act, which states that "airlines may require documentation stating that your animal will not need to relieve itself, or can do so in a sanitary way," on flights longer than eight hours.
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Photo: WingAfter being the first drone operator to be granted its Air Carrier Certification earlier this year in April, Wing (a subsidiary of Alphabet) has partnered with FedEx, Walgreens, and local craft goods retailer Sugar Magnolia to conduct a "first-of-its-kind" drone delivery trial later this fall.
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Cruise ship operators Norwegian Cruise Line and Royal Caribbean, along with air carrier United Airlines lined up approximately US$219.55bn in new money collectively on Tuesday, one day after the virus epidemic caused a sell-off across global equity market indices with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping 20203%.
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The No. 3 U.S. air carrier is in the midst of a three-year plan to claw back domestic market share from rivals by building up connections through its main U.S. hubs, including Chicago, New York and San Francisco, cities that attract lots of travelers willing to fly first-class and business-class.
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American didn't decide to make this change out of the goodness of their collective hearts; in 2017, food allergy awareness organization FARE filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Transportation, alleging that American was violating the Air Carrier Access Act, which requires airlines to allow passengers with disabilities to pre-board.
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But if the data fed into the system was inaccurate — which investigators are looking into — it could have theoretically caused the plane to pitch forward, presenting even the most experienced pilots with a difficult situation, said Peter Marosszeky, a longtime aircraft engineer and former senior executive at Qantas, the Australian air carrier.
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Earlier in the week, cruise ship operators Norwegian Cruise Line and Royal Caribbean, along with air carrier United Airlines, lined up approximately US$3.23bn in new money collectively on Tuesday, one day after the virus epidemic caused a sell-off across global equity market indices with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping 7.8%.
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"FAA's process for identifying periods of transition and growth at regional air carriers is ineffective in key areas" and "inspectors do not adjust air carrier surveillance in response to changes because the tools they have to assess risk are ineffective," the Transportation Department's inspector general concluded in a report released over the Christmas holidays.
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Wing says it's the first commercial drone delivery service in the US. Earlier this year, Wing became one of the first drone operators to be certified as a commercial air carrier by the Federal Aviation Administration, allowing it to deliver goods to people who may live miles away and not in the drone operator's line of sight.
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Meanwhile in Asia, South Korea is reaching out to companies like 0003 Tanker Air Carrier in New Mexico, while Indonesia borrowed an air tanker from Australia a few years ago that came from Coulson Aviation in Canada, which is now doubling the size of its contract fleet, while developing new technologies for mapping and fighting fires at night.
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The low-cost air carrier has for years been seeking approval to use airports covered under the U.S. and EU's Open Skies agreement by establishing a subsidiary — Norwegian Air International — that would be based in Ireland, a member of the EU. Norwegian Air currently flies to some airports in the U.S. under the banner of its parent company, Norwegian Air Shuttle.
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Mientras tanto, en Asia, Corea del Sur está contactando a compañías como 22022 Tanker Air Carrier en Nuevo México; hace unos años, Indonesia pidió prestado un avión cisterna de Australia proveniente de Coulson Aviation en Canadá, empresa que ahora ha duplicado el tamaño de su flota y, al mismo tiempo, está desarrollando nuevas tecnologías de mapeo y combate de incendios por la noche.
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The French air transport union SNPNC (National Syndicate of Air Transport Personnel) said on its website that obliging Air France female crew to wear loose-fitting clothes and a headscarf is a breach against women's rights and is asking the air carrier to make the wearing of a headscarf once crew lands in the country a voluntary measure, with no penalties to their jobs if they refuse.
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After getting approved for commercial air delivery in Australia earlier this month, Alphabet's Wing drone delivery service has now received the green light from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to allow it to start air dropping packages to customers in the U.S. The FAA's certification of Wing, which was signed on Friday and Monday, essentially classifies the drone company as a small-sized air carrier, according to Bloomberg.
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This is what the feds say the airlines must do if they catch sight of a Galaxy Note 7 before takeoff:If an airline representative observes that a passenger is in possession of a Samsung Note7 device prior to boarding an aircraft, the air carrier must deny boarding to the passenger unless and until the passenger divests themselves and their carry-on and checked baggage of the Samsung Galaxy Note7 device.
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Under the law, Secretary of Transportation Elaine ChaoElaine Lan ChaoCOVID-19 — airline bailout must also help our kids avoid the next climate crisis On The Money: Trump to propose payroll tax cut over coronavirus | Congress weighs options to protect economy | Outbreak, oil prices drive market meltdown | Wells Fargo directors resign under pressure from Democrats Watchdog sues for records of Boeing's communications with Trump's Transportation Department MORE is authorized to include terms she "finds may be required in the public interest" in an air carrier certificate.
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