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When No-Fly Notifications Go Wrong

By | 05.11.10 | 9:47 am

Why was Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad allowed to board an Emirates flight to Dubai last week even after he was placed on the no-fly list? Mark Hosenball reports that the FBI was worried about tipping him off:

[A]t the FBI’s request, some, but not all airlines, were

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Sustainable Aviation?

By | 09.26.08 | 12:36 pm

At the beginning of this year, we reported on Air France’s plan to go green. Now the airline is joining forces with nine other industry leaders and environmental groups to reduce the industry’s dependency on fossil fuels.