This indicates airlines have gotten more aggressive about making unsold seats available shortly before departure to make sure planes take off full.
The FAA will send instructions to operators next week, which after installing the new batteries and their components, will be able to make the planes operational once again.
At a time when cuts in defence spending are making life tough for suppliers of military aircraft, those who make commercial planes are working flat out to expand their factories.
More efficient engines in cars and planes make miles cheaper, so you travel more.
Another cause of the condition is the perception of a non-dangerous event -- such as turbulence or normal sounds that planes make -- as being an actual threat to one's safety.
Small 10-seater planes make the hour flight to the falls, approaching up the river canyon and swooping down close to the lip of the cascade for the perfect photo op, before landing at the nearby Kaieteur airstrip.
It is needed to make plastics, to fly planes, to propel construction equipment and to turn generators to make electricity that keeps the lights on and your computer humming in your home or office.
The planes then make it outside in one piece for pressure and fuel testing.
How often do they have to get on planes and make speeches in places they may not even remember?
With only the Boeing 737 in its fleet, any of its 294 planes can make any of its 2, 400 daily flights.
The result is a new market for in-flight entertainment, both for small airlines with older planes, and for short- or medium-haul planes that make up roughly three quarters of commercial airplanes.
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Meanwhile, as Boeing scrambles to find a quick fix and keep its customers happy, one of its biggest competitors is working to make sure its own planes are kept in the air: A spokesman for Airbus, which uses similar lithium-ion batteries in its A350 wide body jet, told the Reuters news service that the company is considering dropping Lithium-ion batteries and switching back to traditional nickel-cadmium power units.
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"We all need to make sure our crews and planes will be ready to re-engage in the mission safely, " said Champlin.
Increasingly, governments are pooling their money, either to rent large aircraft from Russian and Ukrainian firms, to buy American planes or to make their own.
To make money from its new planes, Lion Air will need to expand internationally and may consider leasing out aircraft it doesn't need, analysts said.
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Can Pogo get the critical mass of planes and customers to make that 1, 500-hour assumption work?
However, ten-year-old planes are being scrapped to make way for new models, the payout on which depends upon abnormally low interest rates and unsustainably high real jet fuel prices.
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The UPS pilots' union, for example, wants to make sure controllers remain ultimately responsible for keeping planes apart.
Mr. Fyfe: My strong belief is that the airline business is all about planes, but we wanted to make Air New Zealand all about people.
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"The aim is to make these airports almost cost-free for smaller planes, " he added.
Canadian authorities say 50% of the planes flying in the eastern part of the country can make use of Controller-Pilot Data Link Communications.
Cuban-Americans who still want to make the pilgrimage are vowing to find alternative ways, probably by chartering planes and staying in tourist hotels throughout the four-day visit.
ADS-B promises to make air traffic control easier, cheaper and in many ways safer by allowing planes to transmit their locations by radio frequency instead of depending on towers to use radar to track and coordinate them.
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Even if corrosion, metal fatigue and parts obsolescence were not taking a toll on the planes, potential adversaries are buying better and better air defenses that will make it harder for the bombers to reach their targets in future wars.
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In recent years, some airlines have shifted to larger planes that can carry more people, but that hasn't been enough to make up for an overall reduction in flights.
But if the aircraft in question, known as Trumper, Piper and Laima, make it to Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, as their owners hope, they will be the first pilotless planes to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean and landed safely.
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