Alaska Airlines landed more than nine out of ten flights on-time in February, according to global flight and airport information service provider FlightStats, which tracks the performance of over 150, 000 flights per day from hundreds of airlines worldwide.
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American has focused energy on disputing the online distribution of its flight tickets with the Global Distribution System Travelport and its affiliated website Orbitz, and the battle has now landed in court.
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This could look similar to the fall of 2008, when a complete loss of investor confidence and a massive flight to quality brought the global funding markets to a temporary stand-still.
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The school exists to this day - although it is now based at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire - and over the decades has cemented its reputation as a global centre for flight instruction.
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Many see gold as a good place to stash cash because it will benefit from further global weakness as a flight to safety, but also stands to benefit from inflationary pressure should markets regain their footing.
Global excitement from that 1927 flight sparked the beginning of a "new cycle, " Piccard said, which led to the international airline industry we enjoy today.
The devices help pilots avoid "terrain" by coupling global-positioning technology with flight data on speed, altitude and other readings, and a database containing the topography of the planet.
American Airlines, owned by parent AMR Corporation, has picked up an antitrust battle against Sabre Holdings, a global distribution system that provides flight data to third-party ticket agents and websites, saying its business practices are anti-competitive and not in the interest of the consumer.
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Instead, Bush said, the dollar is benefitting from flight-to-quality type buying on global economic slowdown worries since other safe havens such as the yen and Treasurys are also higher.
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SITA's annual airline survey, more than 20% of global airlines plan to introduce in-flight mobile telephony by 2007.
Following Wednesday's flight, Tony Navarra, Globalstar's president of global operations, was quick to thank the Soyuz team and Arianespace, the French company that markets commercial Soyuz launches through its Starsem subsidiary.
In other defence news, an editorial in bilingual Global Times hails China's successful test flight of its first heavy transport aircraft Y-20 as an "important step forward" in military modernisation.
The RQ-4A Global Hawk drone crashed during a routine training flight from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, according to Jamie Cosgrove, a spokeswoman for the Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons Program at the base.
It's not the miniature robotic space shuttle that NASA's planning to send into orbit this month, but another of the space agency's unmanned vehicles has edged closer to its beginning its mission, with the "nearly autonomous" Global Hawk aircraft having completed a key test flight bright and early on April 2nd.
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Yet while most people have read of the threat of rising sea levels and melting polar caps, or experienced a nagging guilt when booking a cheap flight or buying exotic fruit imported from the other side of the planet, hitherto global warming has largely been something we are happy to leave to the scientists to worry about.
Capital flight more than doubled in 2011 and economic growth has slowed to half its level before the global financial crisis.
Any uptick in sentiment for the euro zone can detract from any safety flight into gold in the short term, said Adam Klopfenstein, senior market strategist with MF Global.
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The new Executive VP is in charge of flight operations, technical operations, operations control center, safety, security, airport customer service and Delta Global Services.
Still, it was the advent, in the mid-nineties, of the Global Positioning System, along with advances in microcomputing, that ushered in the possibility of automated unmanned flight.
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