Showing posts with label airlines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label airlines. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

TSA pats down screaming 3 year old

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzEadUBYyLQ&feature=player_embedded



Now imagine this child's reaction to having that TSA agent put her hand down her pants and touching her skin. You are not going to explain that away to a child, and it's uncalled for bullshit!
If you allow this crap to be done to your child, you should have your child taken away from you, for subjecting them to your own consensual sexual abuse.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Iceland's volcanic ash halts flights across Europe

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Icelands-volcanic-ash-halts-apf-1135739435.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=6&asset=&ccode=




LONDON (AP) -- Ash from Iceland's spewing volcano halted air traffic across a wide swathe of Europe on Thursday, grounding planes on a scale not seen since the 9/11 terror attacks. Thousands of flights were canceled, tens of thousands of passengers were stranded and officials said it was not clear when it would be safe enough to fly again.

In a sobering comment, one scientist in Iceland said the ejection of volcanic ash -- and therefore disruptions in air travel -- could continue for days or even weeks.

Authorities stopped all flights over Britain, Ireland and the Nordic countries. The shutdown closed London's five major airports including Heathrow, Europe's busiest, a major trans-Atlantic hub that handles over 1,200 flights and 180,000 passengers per day.

With the cloud drifting south and east across Britain, the country's air traffic service banned all non-emergency flights until at least 7 a.m. (0600 GMT, 2 a.m. EDT) Friday.

Monday, June 29, 2009

Only a flight away? Swine flu followed route map

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N2990339.htm


Health experts are fond of saying any new disease is just a flight away from anywhere, and a report published on Monday shows the new strain of H1N1 flu followed the airline route map as it spread around the globe.

The swine flu virus spread first and quickest in March and April in the United States and Canada -- where 80 percent of airline passengers traveled in March and April of 2008, researchers at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto found.

Dr. Kamram Khan of St. Michael's and colleagues used International Air Transport Association data for their study. They said travel patterns were also similar in 2007 and therefore likely to be similar in 2009.

"This work provides the world with a potent early warning system for emerging infectious diseases," Dr. Michael Gardam of the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion said in a statement.

"Our analysis showed that in March and April 2008, a total of 2.35 million passengers flew from Mexico to 1,018 cities in 164 countries," Khan and colleagues wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine and published at http://h1n1.nejm.org/.

Los Angeles had the most travelers, with 221,494 passengers