This year United added new Shuttle routes to and from its Denver hub.
American would also gain US Airways' lucrative shuttle service between New York, Boston and Washington D.
On some routes, like shuttle flights to New York, the airline is carrying one-fifteenth of its usual load.
The Discovery shuttle brought the new power unit to the ISS, docking with the platform late on Tuesday (GMT).
Diplomats have been meeting in New York after days of shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East to look for a compromise.
The reopening of the airport is expected to be gradual, possibly starting with Delta and U.S. Airways shuttle flights to New York and Boston, Massachusetts.
In 2004, President George W Bush instigated ambitious plans to return astronauts to the Moon by 2020, necessitating the replacement of the shuttle by a new space vehicle.
Sensing opportunity, Catsimatidis built a small fleet of corporate jets to shuttle players from New England, a business that grew to 40 planes flying executives around the East Coast.
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NASA's Kirk Shireman says the new pump going up in the shuttle is from a different manufacturing lot.
Today the Space Shuttle Enterprise arrived in New York City today, thanks to a lift from a Boeing 747.
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Meanwhile, the existence of the shuttle doubtless inhibits the development of a private space industry and the new private companies face regulatory restrictions that do not apply to the shuttle.
Shuttle flights between Washington and New York were running 60 to 90 minutes late.
Well, if they get back to flying Atlantis and if they get back to flying Atlantis in September, which they dearly would like to do, they have to get the Discovery ready because the new rules say you have to have another shuttle ready to fly as a rescue mission.
The view from the new airlock is far different than exiting from the shuttle's cargo bay airlock, and it struck both astronauts immediately.
The heavy lifting was then left to space station resident astronaut Susan Helms who used the station's new robot arm to pluck the Quest from the shuttle's cargo bay.
One blurry image from an Air Force tracking station in New Mexico, taken about a minute before the shuttle disintegrated, shows what some observers have interpreted as a jagged leading edge on the left wing.
During a half hour shuttle journey on Thursday, I met a New York hedge fund manager, the chairman and CEO of Bayer, the VP of a Norwegian bank and many many more fascinating people.
He worked at ground zero, helped in the aftermath of the 2003 space shuttle Columbia disaster and waded through the damaged streets of New Orleans in the wake of Katrina.
This new rocket is in many ways a repudiation of much that the space shuttle stood for.
In 1996 Lockheed won competitions to build a replacement for the space shuttle, an infra-red satellite-warning system and a new rocket-launcher for the American air force.
Boyd cautioned against reading Delta's emphasis on expanding its international business as a sign it will cut back on domestic routes, arguing that more international flights enhances the domestic operation by creating more demand to shuttle Europe-bound passengers to East Coast airports like Atlanta and New York.
Space shuttle Discovery docked with the orbiting outpost Sunday afternoon, bringing up the new crew: U.S. commander Frank Culbertson and Russian flight engineers Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin.
For the first time since entering the race, he has leased a plane big enough to shuttle reporters from one stop to the next as he tries to breathe new life into his shoestring campaign.
Clementi went to the campus food court, bought a burger, and, at about six-thirty, took the university shuttle bus to the rail station, where he took a train to New York, then a subway uptown.
So, next year after the service mission with the space shuttle, which will hopefully take place later this year, after the new instruments that are going up have been installed, and the old instruments that have broken have been repaired...
"This is the time when we have to say goodbye to our friends, our colleagues, the excellent crew of shuttle Atlantis that did an excellent job performing three EVAs, installing the new Russian module, having good fun, enjoying living on the station and working in space, " the ISS Expedition 23 commander Oleg Kotov told Ken Ham, who leads the Atlantis crew.
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The shuttle blasted off on Monday with six astronauts on an 11-day voyage to deliver new equipment to the station.
While Curiosity's landing is bound to burnish NASA's image and improve its employee morale, the mission may provide only a temporary political boost for an agency that has struggled to chart a new course amid spending constraints, persistent legislative fights and last year's retirement of the space shuttle fleet.
This shuttle never actually went into space, but it was carried on a 747 jet from Washington to New York in June.
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