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Attached is the Department of Transportation's latest Air Travel Consumer Report issued in Jan 2010. It provides reports on Flight Delays, Oversales, Mishandled Baggage, Consumer Complaints, Customer Service, and Airline Animal Incident Reports by pulling data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Aviation Consumer Protection Division, Department of Homeland Security and Transport Security Administration.

The report normally is released by the end of the first week of each month. It's available online at
http://airconsumer.dot.gov/

787 First FlightClick Here to watch the webcast

Watch the 787's first flight on Tuesday December 15, 2009 - live webcast at 9:40am PST(17:40 GMT): http://787firstflight.newairplane.com/ffindex.html

First a virtual tour: http://www.newairplane.com/787/virtualTour/

Article from CNNMoney.com:
Boeing Executive: Cautiously Confident Of Meeting New 787 Schedule
September 09, 2009: 01:41 AM ET

HONG KONG -(Dow Jones)- Aircraft maker Boeing Co. (BA) is cautiously confident that it will meet its newly revised schedule to deliver its first Boeing 787 aircraft at the end of next year following several highly-publicized delays, a senior company executive said Wednesday

After being stranded in Chicago O’Hare for 7 hours, I was glad to find some consolation from a Row 22, Seats A&B two-part story by Frederick Waterman in United’s Hemispheres in-flight magazine. Perhaps the most comforting part about departing to Atlanta at 5am was that the fictional characters in the story were also on a red-eye flight departing from Las Vegas, after a long night out.

Here’s an excerpt from It Never Is - a story about a salesman and a priest sitting in row 22, trading tales of cards, faith, bargains, and women…

Airlines Bullying BizAv?

You'd think that you've heard it all when airlines started charging $50 for checking in a second bag. But how does paying for water sound?

BA recently re-launched "metrotwin.com"
Metrotwin, as the webmasters describe it, is a blogging site targetted at the New York to London flyers, hence it's former and disputed name NY-LON. NY-LON conflicted with Nylon Magazine's digital counterpart. Now metrotwin is trying to live up to its mission of providing one space for two cities . New users are accepted after invites only, but you may also invite yourself. I guess it's just metrotwin's way of making sure that all users have registered emails.