Responding to a US DoT warning that its rights were in jeopardy, UPS will increase its cargo service to Bangkok. Told that it must use or lose the full complement of Taipei-Bangkok flights for which it applied, the Louisville, Kentucky-based cargo giant will bring its once-weekly service up to six-times weekly. UPS, which had planned to have all six weekly frequencies operational by April 2001, will instead upgrade the service by late September.
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.
