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A fire started in the fuel area of Miami International Airport. Flames shot into the air and smoke billowed skyward. More than 30 fire crews were brought in to the disaster, and the flames were finally extinguished at 1:30 AM.

When the smoke cleared, investigators reported more than 40% of the airports fuel had been lost in the inferno.

Flights are affected. Travelers are encouraged to contact their airline if their travel itinerary involves Miami International Airport. On Thursday, 179 flights were cancelled, with more delayed. MIA is the second busiest US airport for international travel and the effects were felt throughout South America.

Tankers have been brought in to shuttle fuel from the remote part of the airport to planes- resulting in huge delays.   

The cause of the fire is unknown. Investigators are working to determine the cause. It is suspected that a faulty electronic switch underneath the fuel tanks is responsible.

There were no injuries reported. The fire occurred in an area away from passengers and employees of Miami International Airport.

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Crossing the Atlantic just got more interesting. Iceland Express, which offers service between New York and London via Reykjavik.

For just $9, you can watch movies and TV, play games, listen to music, and read magazines. If you are considerng getting an iPad, this is a great way to test drive one.

The option is expected to be offered on all of their flights, starting with the transatlantic flights.

According to Iceland Express Ecommerce Manager, ”We have been offereing a mobile entertainment unit to our passengers for the last two years onboard our European flights, but now that Iceland Express is going transatlantic, it makes sense for us to invest in a device that is more geared towards the long haul. But mostly, it’s just really, really cool.”

Iceland Express travels from the US throughout Europe.  Iceland is a great place for a layover, with it’s rugged natural beauty, geothermal hotsprings, and  eclectic capital, Reykjavik. The Keflavik airport is only 30 miles from the center of town, making it easy to get to on a layover.

Destinations for summer, 2011 include:

  Alicante 3x weekly
Aalborg 1x weekly　
Barcelona 2x weekly
Basel 1x weekly　
Berlin 3x weekly
Billund 2x weekly
Bologna 1x weekly
Boston 4x weekly
Chicago 1x weekly　
Copenhagen 13x weekly
Edinburgh 2x weekly　　
Frankfurt Hahn 2x weekly
Friedrichshafen 1x weekly
Gothenburg 2x weekly
Krakau 1x weekly　
London Gatwick　13x weekly
New York Newark　7x weekly　
Oslo 2x weekly　
Paris 3x weekly
Stockholm 1x weekly
Warsaw 3x weekly
Winnipeg 1x weekly

 

 



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Lawyers for a family of a Sept. 11 plant can doubt a United Airlines worker about a call allegedly done regulating her dungeon phone to militant ringleader Mohammed Atta, a decider has ruled.

Manhattan sovereign Judge Alvin Hellerstein gave a lawyers adult to an hour to ask Julie Ashley about “any communications she might have had, or has first-hand believe of, in that information about United Airlines’ operations was communicated to one of a Sept. 11 hijackers.”

But Hellerstein barred any questions during a pretrial deposition about Ashley’s husband, Iranian-born commander Ahmad Farid Khorrami, who was jailed for 3 months on mistaken guess of links to some of a hijackers.

Hellerstein also hold off determining either Ashley can be called as a declare during a arriving hearing over a genocide of former Los Angeles Kings hockey director Mark Bavis, who was killed when United Flight 175 crashed into a south building of a World Trade Center.

Ashley has denied any hit with a terrorists, and United says she “has no applicable testimony to provide” per a wrongful-death fit filed opposite it by Bavis’ mother, Mary, who has indicted a airline of negligence.

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Flight attendants during US Airways Group Inc. contend they’re violation off negotiations over a new contract.

US Airways and America West total in 2005, though moody attendants from a dual airlines still work underneath apart kinship contracts. They’ve been negotiating a corner contract.

Mike Flores is a conduct of a kinship for moody attendants who worked for U.S. Airways before a merger. He says they wish bigger raises than a company’s offer of 3 percent during a finish of this year, and one some-more 3 percent lift over a five-year contract. Former America West moody attendants would get bigger raises since they are now paid less.

He says it’s doubtful a negotiations will resume anytime soon.

U.S. Airways says it is “very disappointed” a kinship pennyless off talks.

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For this year’s march Southwest’s boyant will underline dozens of intricately forged New Year figurines, as good as firecrackers, pinwheels, fans, propitious black and blossoms, lions and dragons.

The Southwest Airlines Chinese New Year Parade will be hold on Saturday 19 Feb 2011 and this year it celebrates a Year of a Hare.

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The Atlanta-based association pronounced a distinction final year was a record $1.4 billion. As a result, a airline announced Monday a largest profit-sharing grant — $313 million to 80,000 employees, including 12,000 in Minnesota.

After years of losing income by a billions, a nation’s airlines have recently been handling in a black, in immeasurable partial due to charging appendage fees for checked baggage. United Continental, for example, also announced it was essential $224 million in profit-sharing to a 87,000 employees.

For Delta, it was a distant cry from a formidable days of 2007, when a airline was only rising from bankruptcy. The association distinguished a good happening Monday opposite all platforms of operations, including a MSP reservations center.

“I don’t feel entitled to profit-sharing,” pronounced Suzanne Khumpui, 50, who works during a center. “I demeanour during it as a bonus. And we had no thought it was coming.”

The immeasurable infancy of Delta’s Minnesota workers are formed during Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, a outcome of Delta’s 2008 partnership with Eagan-based Northwest Airlines. Most of Delta’s employees will accept 6.5 percent of their 2010 gain as a bonus, pronounced Leslie Parker, a Delta mouthpiece in a Twin Cities.

However, members of a Association of Flight Attendants and a International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers will accept 3.2 percent, a figure set by those unions’ stream contracts. Union officials could not be reached for comment.

Some Twin Cities kinship members during Delta pronounced they’re happy, notwithstanding smaller profit-sharing amounts. While a Dec opinion nullified a kinship contract, a workers are still deliberate kinship members underneath a airline’s 2010 profit-sharing plan.

Bill Wehrmacher, 65, of Prior Lake, works in sales for immeasurable groups of travelers, a second career after his engineering pursuit finished during a fall of many dot-com companies in 2000. He skeleton to use his profit-sharing income to buy some Delta stock.

“This profit-sharing is unequivocally a outrageous deal,” Wehrmacher said. “In a final 8 years we’ve left by a liberation from 9/11, failure and a merger, and we’re roughly by a kinship labor issue. Now we’ve got 80,000 people pulling during a same finish of a car and we’re profitable.”

Reservation representative Kenrie Williams, 51, of St. Paul, pronounced she competence put a income toward a new house, or reconstruct her existent one. A former florist, Williams assimilated Northwest Airlines a few months too late for a final profit-sharing — $158 million in 2007 — though considers this one another miracle in her career.

And, notwithstanding a ups and downs of a airline industry, she pronounced she is gratified with her choice. “This is a initial pursuit where I’ve had any health insurance.”

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