Monthly Archives: January 2010

What it Means: JetBlue to Migrate to SABRE this Weekend

January 28, 2010
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JetBlue is switching its reservations system from Navitaire to SABRE this weekend. As a matter of practicality, this will cause disruptions. If you are travelling Friday, Saturday or Sunday of this weekend(January 29-31), you may want to show up early.
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Followup – The Great ‘Religious Device’ Scare of ’10

January 26, 2010
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We did want to followup on last week's story, where a religious Jewish teen caused a plane to be diverted by praying using his tefillin. In case you missed it the first time, the above is an Associated Press video of the initial announcement. Note the police referring to the device as an...
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Ridiculous – Plane Diverted over Praying Jew

January 21, 2010
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This is not the first time this has happened, and that is sad. Today, a US Airways regional flight, flight 3079 operated by Chautaqua Airlines, from New York's LaGuardia Airport to Louisville, Kentucky was diverted to Philadelphia over a religious issue.
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Obama Insists Security Failure was in Leveraging Intelligence

January 5, 2010
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President Obama said today that the December 25th attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound flight was not a failure of the U.S. Intelligence gathering system, but a failure to analyze that information and respond to it. Instead of focusing solely on defending the performance of his government, which his predecessor might have done, he came...
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Ireland Enraged after Slovakia Plants Explosives on Unsuspecting Passenger

January 5, 2010
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The Irish government is demanding answers after an unsuspecting passenger carried high-grade explosives on a flight to Dublin as part of a botched training exercise. Slovakian Agents planted RDX explosives in the bag of a 49-year old electrician without his knowledge. The explosive was one of eight items planted by the Slovakian authorities in...
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The Ballad of Newark Airport

January 4, 2010
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Around 5:20PM on January 3rd, a man was observed walking the wrong way down the exit lane out of the secure area of Newark Liberty Airport's Terminal C. Why no one stopped this man, as we always see a TSA agent stationed at the exit, we do not know. The response of the TSA...
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Image – Flying with Fish on Fox News

January 1, 2010
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This morning, to cap off the TSA Subpoena Saga, blogger Steven Frishling of Flying with Fish appeared on morning show, FOX and Friends.
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Farewell Northwest Airlines

January 1, 2010
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In time for the New Year, the Federal Aviation Administration approved the single operating certificate for the new Delta Air Lines. What this means is that Northwest Airlines as an entity ceases to exist. With this change, the only lingering reminders of Northwest is its separate reservations system, which will be integrated in the...
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