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Flights to and from New York City- area airports are experiencing delays of almost two hours today because of weather, maintenance and the automatic U.S. budget cuts that furloughed air-traffic controllers.
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United Continental Holdings Inc. trans-Atlantic flights with smaller Boeing Co. 757 jets are making more unscheduled fuel stops because of stronger headwinds on the planes’ longest routes.
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United Continental Holdings Inc. said 96 of its Boeing Co . 757-model jets need computer checkups and that some flights may be canceled as it performs the unscheduled maintenance.
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United Continental Holdings Inc. said it’s almost finished with computer checkups on 96 of its Boeing Co. 757-model jets after canceling 15 flights while performing the unscheduled maintenance yesterday.
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United Airlines pilots, who are pressing the company for a new contract, were warned by their union against misusing sick leave after the carrier noted an “abnormally high” rate of such reports.
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U.S. regulators said they will perform a far-reaching review of the design, manufacturing and assembly of Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliner after a fire on a Japan Airlines Co. jet this week and several incidents last year.
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On the evening of Dec. 10, 2007, pilot Kenny Edwards got the order to fly a Continental Airlines Inc. commuter flight from Tampa, Florida, to West Palm Beach. He told his dispatch supervisor he wouldn’t do it.
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U.S. investigators are examining whether two airline flights landed at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport today without tower guidance because the lone controller on duty was asleep.
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United Continental Holdings Inc.’s Continental Airlines unit canceled six more flights today, on top of 24 yesterday, because of pilots who said they were too ill to work.
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United Continental Holdings Inc. is struggling to unify two union workforces more than a year after the $3.47 billion all-stock combination that created the world’s largest airline.