US to investigate how 2 airlines turned holiday weekend into havoc
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The US government has said that it will investigate air travel disruptions over the holiday weekend that left thousands of people stranded at airports or without their luggage when they reached their destinations.
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US Airways appealed to its employees to come to Philadelphia International Airport on their days off this weekend to help boost staffing, hoping to avoid the type of Christmas fiasco that left the airline with too few workers to fly all its planes and
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By Scott McCartney  On Christmas Eve 2004, Comair Inc.'s overtaxed crew-scheduling computer system collapsed, forcing more than 1,000 flight cancellations and leaving thousands of passengers stranded.
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PHILADELPHIA Union leaders say it was poor planning by US Airways that caused canceled flights and misplaced bags over the holidays.
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Airlines would have to triple compensation for passengers involuntarily bumped from flights under one proposal being considered by U.S. transportation officials.
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S Airways&#39; second trip to bankruptcy court holds both promise and peril for the nation&#39;s other major airlines. US Airways&#39; decision to seek Chapter 11 protection on Sunday could jolt unions
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Investigators in Russia are looking into what caused two passenger planes to crash at almost the same time while flying from Moscow to cities in the southern part of the country.
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If you've flown this past spring and summer, you've probably noticed more packed flights. Hate to tell you this, but with two major holidays approaching -- Thanksgiving and Christmas -- expect more of the same.
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THE AIRLINE industry shoved a lump of coal in the Christmas stockings of American air travelers - or at least those in the Eastern United States relying on US Airways and Comair
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The Department of Transportation yesterday launched a formal investigation into the weekend&#39;s travel disruptions involving US Airways and Comair that left thousands of passengers stranded or separated from their baggage.
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Christmas comes but once a year, and always on December 25th. Therefore, itâs difficult to fathom the unpreparedness of the nationâs airlines during one of the biggest travel weekends of the year.
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Thousands of holiday travelers spent much of the Christmas weekend in airport terminals because of a trifecta of poor weather, labor unrest and computer meltdowns.
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WASHINGTON -- The bitter battle between American Airlines and France-based Airbus over a New York crash in 2001 that killed 265 people has escalated as the US government nears its decision tomorrow on the cause of the second-worst air disaster in US history.
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Officials on Friday said one of two airliners that crashed near-simultaneously was brought down by a terrorist act and that explosives were found in the plane&#39;s wreckage
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The nasty fight between American  Airlines and Europe's Airbus over a New York crash in 2001 that  killed 265 people has escalated as the U.S. government nears  its determination on Tuesday on the cause of the second-worst  air disaster in U.S. history.
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(CBS/AP) Thousands of travelers spent their holiday weekend at airports waiting for flights that never took off, or looking for luggage in a sea of some ten-thousand lost bags, reports CBS News Correspondent Kelly Cobiella.
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An American Airlines flight heading from Los Angeles to London was diverted to New York on Thursday over security concerns but US authorities said the incident was likely a &quot;misunderstanding&quot;, US media reported.