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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
Visitors watch a flock of turkeys Saturday at the Farm Sanctuary near Orland. The turkeys enjoyed a holiday meal (instead of being one) put on by members of a farm-animal rescue group. ORLAND – The pumpkin was a hit. The fruit salad and cranberries did well. The stuffing was so-so. Overall, a Thanksgiving dinner hosted by an animal-rights group Saturday for 16 turkeys was devoid of leftovers,...
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SWAC Girl (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The party planners have been selected ... the date has been chosen ... the venue has been booked. The elephants have arrived ... it's time to celebrate! Virginia Governor-elect Bob McDonnell announced today the Co-Chairs for his upcoming inauguration as the 71st Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Inaugural Co-Chairs will serve as ambassadors for the Inaugural Celebration. The 2010 inauguration...
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The Business Journal of Milwaukee (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Commercial airlines in the United States -- including Northwest Airlines and Southwest Airlines Co. -- reduced the number of employees on their payrolls working full-time during the month of September, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics. (DAL) (LUV)
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AvStop.com (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Washington, D.C. — The FAA also has taken steps to ensure more accurate preliminary information about air traffic events can be provided to top officials more quickly. On Wednesday, October 21, 2009, at 5:56 pm mountain daylight time, an Airbus A320, N03274, operating as Northwest Airlines (NWA) flight 188, became a NORDO (no radio communications) flight at 37,000 feet. Flight 188 departed San...
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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Randy Babbitt said air traffic personnel should have been 'more agile' when they lost contact with the crew of a Northwest flight for more than an hour last month. Air traffic controllers were slow to notify the military when they lost contact with a Northwest Airlines jet for more than an hour last month, the top U.S. aviation regulator said Friday.
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AprilMay (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
An actual conversation I had with a Northwest airlines representative today:Me: (very polite) "I would like to change a reservation."R: (just a moment)Me: (on hold for 10 minutes)R: "Flight information please?"Me: "My husband and son are flying into Salt Lake City from DC. Then they are changing planes. There are two planes leaving Salt Lake City at the same time. One is going...
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Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The FAA should have taken more decisive action on the Northwest Airlines flight that fell out of communication with ground control for 77 minutes last month, officials acknowledged today. While the plane was out of contact, air-traffic controllers changed shifts and failed to warn their replacements about the runaway plane....
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Air traffic control supervisors delayed nearly an hour in notifying Norad that a Northwest Airlines jetliner was not responding to radio calls.
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The Lost Girls (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
by Molly Fergus LG Travel News Editor Missed the big travel stories of the week? And the weird, wacky and insignificant ones? We've got your round-up right here.... ****************************************** Riding the free rails Way to go, Amtrak! The broke and sometimes busted train service is finally taking steps to snag passengers from airlines and cheap-o bus companies — by adding free...
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Philip Greenspun's Weblog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
An airline pilot friend sent me a song: "Tweetin' on a Jet Plane". This may not be an accurate summary of the recent airline flight that failed to respond to ATC and overshot Minneapolis. Northwest Airlines does not offer in-flight Internet access on their Airbus A320s (source). Thus if the pilots ...
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DealBreaker (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Update : Fuck the below and headline above: CNBC reports that Bob has sent a memo to employees promising he'll never leave them. Obviously it goes without saying that we sincerely hope Bobby B's threat to walk out of AIG and never come back was just that. Hopefully the board will coax him down from the ledge and Ken Feinberg, understanding that no one else has the panache to get the job, will lift...
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
AIG is already prepared for a potential Benmosche departure, and has been for some time already. The firm has four former CEOs sitting on its board, who were added just back in June. Any of them could be a potential leader, according to Deal Journal . Douglas Steenland - former Northwest Airlines CEO Robert "Steve" Miller - former Delphi CEO Arthur Martinez - former Sears CEO Harvey Golub...
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Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
By ROGER COHEN NYT NEW YORK — When two Northwest Airlines pilots get so into their laptops that they overshoot their destination by 150 miles, breezing past Minneapolis like they’d never heard of the place, American self-absorption has clearly reached new heights. No longer just bowling alone, Americans are flying alone. I couldn’t believe that story. Nobody could when they heard...
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I Hate The Media (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Huckleberry: "Ignoring last week's Republican blowouts in Virginia and New Jersey might qualify Obama to be a pilot for Northwest Airlines." Related posts: Today’s Huckleberry Commentary “The Obama administration is like a Colorado flying saucer: Full of hot air, spinning aimlessly in circles and completely empty.”'> Today’s Huckleberry Commentary “The Obama...
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Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Delta Air Lines will move its ticket counters and arrivals/departures from the North Terminal to the South Terminal at Anchorage's international airport on Tuesday, the airline said. Delta was operating out of the North Terminal while the A and B concourses of the South Terminal were being renovated over the last two years. Delta recently acquired Northwest Airlines, which will continue to operate...
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