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From: Carol Faulkner

Date: 01/15/17 13:30:45

To: Undisclosed-Recipient:,

Subject: airline news                

.............passing along news............thx/~ C

Delta adds flights from Seattle with 7 new destinations

January 12, 2017 by Steve Cosgrove

Delta is adding seven nonstop destinations from Seattle, making 2017 its fifth consecutive year of growth at its Pacific Northwest hub. The new destinations include: Austin, Texas; Eugene, Oregon; Lihue, Hawaii; Milwaukee, Wisc.; Nashville, Tenn.; Raleigh, N.C.; and Redmond, Oregon. Flights will be for sale beginning Saturday, Jan. 14.

With these additions, Delta will offer 160 peak-day flights to 49 destinations – including 16 of the top 20 destinations – from its Seattle hub this summer. Customers in Seattle have access to a global network with strong non-stop coverage throughout North America, including service to all of the top destinations on the West Coast; access to the East Coast and Midwest through hubs as well as new or expanded non-stop service to Austin, Boston, Milwaukee, Nashville, Orlando, and Raleigh; and flights to all of the top destinations in Hawaii and key cities in Alaska and Canada.

The new year round destinations include:

·         One daily flight to General Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee beginning March 9, 2017.

·         Three daily flights to Eugene Airport beginning April 1, 2017.

·         One daily flight to Nashville International Airport beginning May 26, 2017.

·         One daily flight to Raleigh-Durham International Airport beginning June 8, 2017.

·         One daily flight to Austin Bergstrom International Airport beginning June 12, 2017.

·         Two daily flights to Redmond Municipal Airport beginning June 12, 2017.

·         One daily flight to Lihue Airport beginning Dec. 21, 2017.

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Assaulting an Airline Airport Employee is now a Federal Offense!

JANUARY 14, 2017 BY STEVE COSGROVE

And it’s about time!!! Airline and airport workers cheered Friday that criminal charges will be possible if they suffer physical or verbal abuse from a passenger.

The federal government, Department of Justice, has ruled that anyone who assaults an airport ticket agent will face the same fines and prison time as if they had attacked a Transportation Security Administration agent or other law enforcement officer.

The U.S. Department of Justice, in a letter to Congress, clarified this month that a federal law written to protect TSA agents and law enforcement officers in airports also applies to airline workers at the ticket counters and gates.

The Communication Workers of America, the union that represents airline workers, praised the ruling, saying it will help protect airline agents from being victims of air rage. The union helped collect more than 2,000 signatures urging the Justice Department to clarify the law.

Communications Workers of America, a union representing thousands of aviation workers has fought for 15 years to have the law cover airline and airport workers. Travelers regularly become angry in airports, sometimes throwing luggage at ticket agents or punching them, according to the union.

Candice Johnson, a spokeswoman for the CWA, said the union’s next challenge is to make sure that airlines push to have anyone who assaults their workers prosecuted under the federal law, not just state laws.

Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., headed a congressional letter in September to the Transportation and Justice departments asking for a broader interpretation of who is protected by the law. The departments have now agreed, according to Peter Kadzik, an assistant attorney general in the office of legislative affairs.

“We agree that this statute includes, but its very language, assaults on an ‘airport, or air carrier employee who has security duties within the airport,’” Kadzik wrote Garamendi on Jan. 5. “As such, we also agree that the statutory language considers not only TSA and law enforcement officers in this criminal offense, but also airport and air carrier employees who have security duties in the airport.”

The punishment for assaulting such workers is a fine of up to $250,000 and up to 10 years in prison.

Personally, I would also love to see them add the attacker to a national no fly list so they can’t fly on any airline, ever.

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Delta shatters record, goes two-thirds of 2016 without mainline canceled flight

By Michael Thomas • posted Jan. 9, 2017 3:45 pm

For 241 days last year, Delta didn’t cancel a mainline flight anywhere in the world, beating an industry record it set last year by 80 days. More perspective: the 2016 mark doubled the record the airline set in 2014 and tripled the number of cancel-free days it had in 2013.

In a year marked by a slew of customer experience enhancements, new aircraft orders, added destinations, record profit sharing and record profits, few are as notable and impressive as Delta’s consistently unparalleled operational reliability.

For 2016, Delta was a top industry performer among all carriers reporting to the DOT, finishing the year with a 99.6 percent “completion factor” – the percentage of flights completed as scheduled. The company also ended 2016 with an on-time performance of 86.3 percent for its mainline operation and 84.7 percent when the six-carrier Delta Connection regional operation is factored in.

 



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