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First Reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 Documents

Claims for damaged, lost bags down 50 percent

WASHINGTON -- Complaints that airport screeners lost, stole or damaged items in passengers' bags have plunged more than 50% as the government imposed tighter safeguards on luggage, federal records show. Passengers who discovered missing or damaged belongings ... [Published 19 hours ago by Airport Business]
First Reported Mar 06 2010 - Updated Mar 06 2010 - 1 Documents

Southwest effect is kicking in at MSP

One year later, the 'Southwest Effect'' appears to have taken hold in the Twin Cities. Just before the 'no frills, no fees' carrier started flying from the Twin Cities to Chicago's Midway, one-way average air fare was $260 in the third quarter of 2008, ... [Published Mar 06 2010 by Minneapolis Star Tribune]
First Reported Feb 28 2010 - Updated Feb 28 2010 - 1 Documents

Richmond airport poised to outperform nation as a whole in 2010

Airline industry anticipates long-term growth Thanks to location, location, location -- and congestion -- Richmond International Airport's traffic should see a rebound this year.Richmond International benefits from serving the state capital, having a ... [Published Feb 28 2010 by RBC Dain Rauscher]
First Reported Feb 16 2010 - Updated Feb 16 2010 - 1 Documents

Delta to compete with US Airways on Richmond-LaGuardia route

Airline competition will return to Richmond's air service to New York's LaGuardia Airport starting in April.Delta Air Lines will begin flying from Richmond International Airport to LaGuardia again April 6.US Airways is now the only air carrier flying ... [Published Feb 16 2010 by TradingMarkets]
First Reported Feb 11 2010 - Updated Feb 11 2010 - 1 Documents

Legacy Airline Emerges From Turbulence In Better Shape Than Others

Airlines toughed it out through one of the worst decades on record, cutting capacity, fares and free perks in the face of reduced demand.Just as profit was returning in 2006 and 2007 in the wake of 9/11's ravages, the global recession took the wind out ... [Published Feb 11 2010 by Yahoo! Canada]
First Reported Feb 10 2010 - Updated Feb 11 2010 - 1 Documents

You're in the Armory Now!

In what is sure to be the biggest theatrical event of 2011, the Lincoln Center Festival, in association with the Park Avenue Armory and The Ohio State University, will present the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) at the Armory for an unprecedented six-week ... [Published Feb 10 2010 by Broadway Stars]
First Reported Feb 10 2010 - Updated Feb 10 2010 - 1 Documents

Royal Shakespeare Co. to pack bags, theatre for New York

Actors bow for a curtain call following the 2009 Shakespeare in the Park opening night performance of "Twelfth Night" at the Delacorte Theater in New York. New York city has a long summer tradition of Shakespeare in Central Park, but now thanks to the ... [Published Feb 10 2010 by France24]
First Reported Feb 08 2010 - Updated Feb 09 2010 - 2 Documents

Royal Shakespeare Co. to Perform in Theater Replica in Armory

A rendering of the theater. The Royal Shakespeare Company will spend several hundred thousand dollars donated by Ohio State University to construct a full-size replica of their new theater in Stratford-upon-Avon, ship it in pieces to NYC, ... [Published Feb 08 2010 by Gothamist]
First Reported Jan 02 2010 - Updated Jan 02 2010 - 1 Documents

Pat-downs at airports are often ineffective

CHICAGO - With all the screening technology at U.S. airports, the last line of defense is still the human hand: the pat-down search.But aviation experts say the pat-down is often ineffective, in part because of government rules covering where screeners ... [Published Jan 02 2010 by Philadelphia Inquirer]
First Reported Dec 31 2009 - Updated Dec 31 2009 - 8 Documents

Detroit flight plot may prove boon for security firms

NEW YORK (AFP) The failed attempt to blow up an Amsterdam-Detroit flight last week could prove a bonanza for airport security firms, especially the makers of full-body scanners. 'It might put some pressure to buy more full-body scanners... The US Congress ... [Published Dec 31 2009 by AFP via Yahoo!]
First Reported Sep 30 2009 - Updated Sep 30 2009 - 1 Documents

The Drunks / The Grain Store, Our Class and Talent

Courtyard, Stratford-upon-AvonCottesloe, London Menier Chocolate Factory, London Snowflakes and rose petals. Grey coats and woollen hats. Brass bands and strutting uniforms and vodka and scabrous hilarity. A wave of theatre from the eastern bloc is sweeping ... [Published Sep 30 2009 by Observer]
First Reported Sep 28 2009 - Updated Sep 28 2009 - 1 Documents

Children of the revolution

"Revolutions" is intended to be a major four-year celebration by the Royal Shakespeare Company of drama from the former Soviet Union (RSC supremo Michael Boyd did much... ... [Published Sep 28 2009 by FT.com - Transport]

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...time you handle a bag, you've got a great opportunity for baggage theft and baggage damage' by screeners, airport consultant Michael Boyd said. "in the airline business, the key thing is to reduce human contact of all types." Fewer claims save taxpayers millions. The TSA paid passengers $3...
...But there's nothing on the books at this point.' Boyd said that Delta doesn't have much to worry about. "for delta, they still have a stronghold that will remain -- there simply isn't enough market room for southwest to make a huge change" he said

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Claims for damaged, lost bags down 50 percent [Airport Business - 19 hours ago]
Southwest effect is kicking in at MSP [Minneapolis Star Tribune - Mar 06 2010]
Richmond airport poised to outperform nation as... [RBC Dain Rauscher - Feb 28 2010]
Delta to compete with US Airways on Richmond-La... [TradingMarkets - Feb 16 2010]
Gastenveld deposition is now set for March [Poten & Partners - Feb 11 2010]
Legacy Airline Emerges From Turbulence In Bette... [Yahoo! Canada - Feb 11 2010]
You're in the Armory Now! [Broadway Stars - Feb 10 2010]
Royal Shakespeare Co. to pack bags, theatre for... [France24 - Feb 10 2010]
Royal Shakespeare Company to send ensemble to NY [Reuters UK - Feb 08 2010]
Research and Markets: Global Market Review of V... [Forbes.com - Feb 08 2010]
Shakespeare Troupe Plans Residency in New York ... [New York Times - Feb 08 2010]
Pat-downs at airports are often ineffective [Philadelphia Inquirer - Jan 02 2010]
Airport pat-downs ineffective [Straits Times - Jan 02 2010]
Detroit flight plot may prove boon for security... [AFP via Yahoo! - Dec 31 2009]
Detroit flight plot may prove boon for security... [France24 - Business - Dec 31 2009]
Detroit flight plot may prove boon for security... [France24 - Americas - Dec 31 2009]
Detroit flight plot may prove boon for security... [France24 - Middle East - Dec 31 2009]
Detroit flight plot may prove boon for security... [France24 - europe - Dec 31 2009]
Detroit flight plot may prove boon for security... [France24 - Science - Dec 31 2009]
Detroit flight plot may prove boon for security... [France24 - culture - Dec 31 2009]
Detroit flight plot may prove boon for security... [France24 - Asia Pacific - Dec 31 2009]
A decade on, the notorious Maze prison makes wa... [Yorkshire Post - Nov 05 2009]
The Drunks / The Grain Store, Our Class and Talent [Observer - Sep 30 2009]
Children of the revolution [FT.com - Transport - Sep 28 2009]
Change in air travel [USA Today - Jul 15 2009]
As airlines struggle, more 'a la carte' fees hi... [USA Today - Jun 22 2009]
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Royal Shakespeare Co. to Perform in Theater Rep... [Gothamist - Feb 08 2010]
A rendering of the theater. The Royal Shakespeare Company will spend several hundred thousand dollars donated by Ohio State University to construct a full-size ...
Detroit flight plot may prove boon for security... [Raw Story - Dec 31 2009]
NEW YORK — The failed attempt to blow up an Amsterdam-Detroit flight last week could prove a bonanza for airport security firms, especially the makers of full-body ...
The right not to choose [normblog - Oct 01 2009]
Certain types of comparison seem to me to be a waste of time. If you like rock music but don't like jazz, there's no strong reason for you to worry about it; you ...
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