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Lufthansa A380 Pilots File Complaint After 17-Minute Takeoff Wait at San Francisco
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Lufthansa A380 Pilots File Complaint After 17-Minute Takeoff Wait at San Francisco

Lufthansa A380 pilots filed a complaint over a 17-minute takeoff wait at San Francisco, blaming poor ATC coord...

Four near-misses in three weeks: what the ATSB probes at Sydney Airport mean for travellers
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Four near-misses in three weeks: what the ATSB probes at Sydney Airport mean for travellers

The ATSB has released preliminary reports on four Sydney Airport near-misses in three weeks. Here's what happe...

Why Your Plane Circles Before Landing — And Why It's Usually Good News
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Why Your Plane Circles Before Landing — And Why It's Usually Good News

Pilots sometimes circle airports on purpose — for holding patterns, weather, weight limits or go-arounds. Here...

Senator's 'Furry Pilot' Warning Takes Off, But Aviation Has Bigger Problems
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Senator's 'Furry Pilot' Warning Takes Off, But Aviation Has Bigger Problems

A US Senator warned that airline pilots might secretly be furries. Here's why the claim has no evidence — and...

America's $12.5 Billion Air Traffic Control Overhaul Still Has No Master Plan
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America's $12.5 Billion Air Traffic Control Overhaul Still Has No Master Plan

The FAA got $12.5 billion to fix air traffic control but has no cost estimate or master schedule. What the GAO...

NOTAMs: The Hidden Flight Alerts Behind Your Delays — And How To See Them Live
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NOTAMs: The Hidden Flight Alerts Behind Your Delays — And How To See Them Live

NOTAMs explained: the coded alerts behind flight delays, the SFO near-miss, and how live trackers now visualis...

After a single cable failure snarled 9,500 US flights, Washington wants $30 billion to fix air traffic control
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After a single cable failure snarled 9,500 US flights, Washington wants $30 billion to fix air traffic control

A single cable failure delayed or cancelled 9,500 US flights. Now Washington wants $30 billion to modernise ai...

Why your US flight keeps getting delayed: air traffic control is running on eBay parts and 2013-era Compaq PCs
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Why your US flight keeps getting delayed: air traffic control is running on eBay parts and 2013-era Compaq PCs

US air traffic control runs on obsolete Compaq computers, eBay parts and 40-year-old telecoms — and travellers...

US Pitches $30 Billion More for Air Traffic Control After Northeast Outage Grounded 9,500 Flights
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US Pitches $30 Billion More for Air Traffic Control After Northeast Outage Grounded 9,500 Flights

After a fibre cut halted Newark, JFK and Philadelphia flights, the US requested $30bn more for ATC upgrades. W...

Why Your Plane Levels Off at 10,000 Feet — and Why It Sometimes Doesn't
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Why Your Plane Levels Off at 10,000 Feet — and Why It Sometimes Doesn't

That post-takeoff pause at 10,000 feet comes down to FAA phraseology, busy airspace and geography — here's why...

US flight chaos: what Monday's air traffic control meltdown means for your next trip
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US flight chaos: what Monday's air traffic control meltdown means for your next trip

A cut fibre cable grounded flights across New York, Boston and Washington. What the US air traffic control mel...

One Cut Cable Grounded the Northeast: What Monday's FAA Outage Means for Travellers
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One Cut Cable Grounded the Northeast: What Monday's FAA Outage Means for Travellers

A failed circuit plus a cut backup fiber line halted flights across the Northeast. What happened, who's to bla...

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