United Airlines is to use the American Petroleum Exchange e-commerce marketplace to buy fuel. It claims to be the first carrier to use the Internet to drive down fuel costs. United's initial deal is due to take place in early February with an auction for 140 million US gal (530 million litres) of jet fuel.
Source: Airline Business
Investigators have determined that a Delta Air Lines Airbus A330-300 touched down short of the runway at Amsterdam, after the crew sought to mitigate a perceived risk of overrun and descended below the glideslope.
American Airlines and United Airlines are resuming flights having been forced to temporarily halt operations as part of the wide-ranging global impact of an IT outage today.
A global technology outage appears to have caused several major US airlines to ground departing aircraft, in addition to creating problems at airports and airlines worldwide that threatens to snarl air traffic.
