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• Who's Flying Your Airplane? ; Training On the Job, and Not Training in Some Areas at All, has Becom the Norm for Some Regional Airlines, a Buffalo News Investigation Reveals Series: Special Report: Who's Flying Your Plane? (Part One of Four)

Editor's note: This has been the safest decade in U.S. aviation history - but Buffalo learned the hardway that there's at least one gaping hole in that safety record, at the regional airlines. Since the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 claimed 50 lives in Clarence in February, News Albany Bureau chief Tom Precious and Washington Bureau chief Jerry Zremski have been investigating the training and experience levels of regional airline pilots.

• Buffalo News
• December 28, 2009

• UNITED AIRLINES BANKRUPTCY NEWS: First Issue Free.

Business Editors TRENTON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 2002 Bankruptcy Creditors' Service, Inc., today announced publication of UNITED AIRLINES ...

• Business Wire
• December 09, 2002

• Midwest Airlines a 'W' for Milwaukee Republic Airlines' Decision to Add Up to 800 Jobs in Milwaukee and Oak Creek Is Welcome News. A Team Effort Helped Persuade Republic to Make the Investment.

Republic Airlines' decision to consolidate its maintenance operations at Mitchell International Airport is the best nugget of news we've heard in months. It's a win -- and a sizable one at that. Republic, owner of Midwest Airlines, says it will add up to 800 jobs in Milwaukee and Oak Creek over the next year. About half of those jobs will come from outside Wisconsin, with about 300 of them aircraft maintenance jobs transferring from Denver.

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• November 13, 2009

• Airline Parent Files for Chapter 11: ; Yeager Official Says Move by American Airlines Owner Will Not Alter Local Flights

DALLAS - The parent company of American Airlines filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday, seeking relief from crushing debt caused by high fuel prices and expensive labor contracts that its competitors shed years ago. The company also replaced its CEO, and the incoming leader said American would probably cut its flight schedule "modestly" while it reorganizes. He did not give specifics. American said its frequent- flier program would be unaffected.

... said local officials reacted calmly to the news. "If this had been 10 years ago, we would have got...

• Charleston Daily Mail
• November 30, 2011

• New Mexico Airlines Considers Landing in Taos

AIRLINES Selling Taos

• Taos News, The
• April 02, 2009

• Memphis Eager for Southwest Effect -- Discount Carrier in the United States Gains Toehold in Bluff City

Southwest Airlines executives predicted in the 1980s that one day they'd be in Memphis. That day is Monday. But it's not because of letters from disgruntled Memphians, civic hand-wringing about semi-monopolistic hub operators or back-door entry by way of West Memphis, which drew looks from Southwest back in 1989.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• May 02, 2011

• How American Airlines Can End Nosedive

The Associated Press DALLAS - American Airlines is in bad need of an upgrade.

• Charleston Gazette
• October 21, 2011

• Seen & Overheard

AIRLINES RATED IN CONSUMER REPORTS Making travel plans? Consumer Reports shares customer ratings of 10 large airlines.

• Dayton Daily News
• May 17, 2011

• American Airlines Files for Bankruptcy

American Airlines and its parent company, AMR Corp., trying to cut costs and unload debt built up by years of high jet fuel prices and labor struggles, filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday. The filing will not affect travelers for now, AMR said in a statement.

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• The Journal Record
• December 06, 2011

• Great News!!! Spirit Airlines(R) Offers a 50-Percent Discount for Pre-Purchased Checked Bags Online.

Customers Are Invited to Celebrate with Sale Fares as Low as Eight Cents! FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- SPIRIT AIRLINES, the largest Ultra Low Cost Carri...

• Business Wire
• June 19, 2007