Wonder what Air India is going to do as its entire new fleet is getting Connexion in for every seat.

But Boeing has said it will support the programme.

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Alaska Airlines jet diverted to Seattle after cabin pressure problem; 14 treated

SEATTLE, Aug 19 (UNI) 

An Alaska Airlines jetliner was diverted to Seattle after the plane’s cabin failed to pressurize normally during a flight from Canada, an airline spokeswoman said.

The Boeing 737 landed safely Friday at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where medics treated 10 passengers and three crew members complaining of ear and sinus pain, airline spokeswoman Amanda Tobin Bielawski said.

She initially said they required no other treatment but later said the airline had learned four people were taken to a hospital. She did not have immediate details on their condition.

‘‘There’s nothing at this point to suggest that this is anything other than an isolated incident,’’ Bielawski said.

An altitude warning alarm sounded when Flight 690 reached 33,000 feet (9,900 meters), indicating the air pressure in the cabin was lower than it should be, spokeswoman Caroline Boren said.

The plane’s oxygen masks did not deploy because the situation was not severe enough to trigger them, Bielawski said.

The Seattle-based airline brought in another plane, which took the 122 passengers the rest of the way to San Francisco. The original flight had taken off from Vancouver, British Columbia.

Earlier this year, Alaska ordered a fleet-wide inspection of its planes’ air pressure systems after a series of similar cabin pressure problems. The company said no systemwide problems were found.

This one's a real laugh!!

http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2006/aug/aug18/news07.php
NA Boeing makes an emergency landing in New Delhi

A Boeing aircraft of Nepal Airlines heading for Dubai with 190 passengers made an emergency landing at New Delhi on Wednesday after a technical snag in one of its engines.

The 757 Boeing diverted to New Delhi 30 minutes after take-off after the pilots of the plane detected overheating in its left engine.

First they tried to cool the engine by lessening the power. However, they decided to turn off the engine after their attempt failed, and landed in New Delhi on one engine, reports quoted a source at the airlines as saying.

A team of technicians including in-flight engineer B N Jha tried to fix the problem.

Following the emergency landing at New Delhi, the international flight schedules of NAC, which now has only one Boeing 757 in operation, has been badly affected.

According to sources, the pilots had been complaining about the overheating problem since the last two weeks but concerned engineers had been granting flight permission citing the problem as normal. nepalnews.com pb Aug 18 06

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200608/200608180032.html
Repentant Passenger Returns Airline Blanket
 
 
A letter of apology to Korean Airlines that accompanied a blanket a passenger took off the aircraft. 
 
 
Korean Air officials were surprised when they found that a thick pink envelope delivered to the carrier’s center at Incheon International Airport contained a checkered blanket of the kind provided to passengers on long-haul flights together with a letter. The sender was a man identified as Min from Cheongju, who recently traveled aboard Korean Air from Incheon to the Philippines and back.
On getting off the plane, Min wrote, he saw many passengers stuffing the blankets into their bags or simply carrying them off the plane and, assuming they were free, did the same. But once home, Min opened the wrapping and found a notice saying the blanket was the property of Korean Air. Feeling guilty, he decided to return it and apologize.

"The other people who were taking the blankets with them said it was included in the price of the ticket, so I took mine as well. I am very sorry," Min wrote. "Next time I have an opportunity, I will again fly Korean Air. Fly safely." Indeed, a message attached to the blanket reads, "PLEASE LEAVE ON THE SEAT AFTER USE KOREAN AIR."

However, each year more of the blankets go missing as many passengers either do not know or do not care. In 2001, 176,000 were lost, soaring to 300,000 in 2005, costing hundreds of millions of won. The blankets are light, warm, easy to carry and made from pure wool --making them a prime target for travelers who intend to go backpacking.

From time to time, there are passengers like Min who repent and return the blankets, but airline staff cannot check every passenger as they leave the plane. An airline staffer says, "When I was working in America, we had one Korean-American passenger whose child had left with the blanket on a trip back from Korea, but the woman returned it saying that was a way to educate her child.” He added, "It’s easy to say that it’s just one blanket, but we are grateful for the letter."
 

http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=138012
IA back in business 
 
Claws back to second spot in July
 
ATREYEE DEV ROY
Posted online: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 at 0000 hours IST
 
       
 
 
NEW DELHI, AUG 21:  Indian Airlines is back as the second largest domestic carrier in the country, overtaking low-cost carrier Air Deccan, by just about a whisker.
According to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) figures for July, Indian Airlines’ market share dipped 0.3% in that month to 20.5% from 20.8% in June. Air Deccan, however, lost 1% to land at 20.2% in July. The Jet Airways share, too, fell 0.6%, but it maintained its leadership with a market share of 31.7% in July.

Industry midgets have started to bite slices off the Indian aviation pie. The market share of Kingfisher Airlines and Go Air increased from 7.9% and 2.4%, respectively, in June to 8.2% and 2.8%, in July.

Though full service carriers are still the biggest players in the market, their share has shrunk from 76.4% in January to 60.3% in June. Indian Airlines’ market share has fallen from 25% to 20.8% during the period. Air Deccan’s has jumped to 21.2% in June from 13.3% in January.

In terms of load (seat) factor, SpiceJet led the industry with 78%, followed by Air Deccan, which registered a load factor of 74.2%.

SpiceJet and Air Deccan were the only two carriers, which managed a load factor of over 70% during the lean season, with almost a 10% margin over Jet, third largest in terms of load factor. Jet recorded a seat factor of 65.6%, closely followed by Air Sahara at 64.5%.

However, most of the airlines registered a decline in load due to heavy monsoon in the industrially important western part of the country.
 

Laughed so much!!

http://www.patnadaily.com/news2006/aug/082406/protest_outside_airport.html

Patna: August 24, 2006

Dozens of protestors outside Patna's Jai Prakash Narayan International Airport on Wednesday, chanted slogans against the Air Deccan and demanded liquidation of the company after the airline dropped a passenger on the runway minutes before taking off for Delhi.

According to the airline's report filed with the Gardanibagh police, a passenger who was identified as Satya Nand, boarded the plane in an inebriated condition. He also misbehaved with some passengers after which the pilot ordered him to de-board the plane.

When the passenger refused to simmer down and comply with the pilot's order, airline staff physically picked him up and left on the runway after which the aircraft took off.

Demanding actions against the airline, the protestors blocked the parking area outside the airport and threatened to take up the matter in a court of law. They also demanded sacking of Union Civil Aviation Minister Prafulla Patel.

They also filed an FIR against the Deccan Air at Gardanibagh police station.

Don't believe it.Doors are not opened after Engine start.No one is dropped on the Runway & no one will be left unattended [security escorted back]on the Tarmac especially a dis organised Pax.

Media reports are sometimes a joke.

regds

MEL

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Kerala ready for another airport proposed by expatriates

Dubai, Aug 27 (UNI)

Kerala has agreed to a proposal by expatriates to build an airport at Edayaranmula in central Kerala under a public limited company that would run it on the lines of the Nedumbaserry international airport near Kochi.

The Friends of Thiruvalla (Fota) organisation, which has taken the lead in the airport project, has joined hands with other NRI groups including Fokana, Mount Zion Group and Fota chapters in Bahrain, Kuwait and the UAE.

The Mount Zion Group has acquired 400 acres of land at Edayaranmula, about 10 km from Thiruvalla, to build the airport, the organisation’s Qatar chapter said in a statement.

Fota (Qatar chapter) has submitted a memorandum to Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan, seeking allotment of 50 acres of land that once belonged to the now defunct Pamba Sugar Factory for its development activities.

Kerala has gone mad. There will be five airports now all within 20/30 mins of each other.

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Pistol seized from former Union minister

 Chennai, Aug 30 (UNI) A pistol was recovered from former Civil Aviation Minister C M Ibrahim before he boarded a flight to Bangalore from here, airport sources said here today.

 Ibrahim had come to the airport to board a Kingfisher Airlines flight scheduled to leave at 9.45 pm last night, the sources said.

 The former minister was allowed to proceed on his journey although the pistol was seized.

 The sources said Ibrahim has been asked to produce the licence for the weapon before he can reclaim it.