Did American Airlines Hint They Could Be Leaving the New York – London Market?

by Gary Leff

airline cabin
May 19 2018

A couple of days ago I wrote about American President Robert Isom’s comments in an off the record employee Q&A about New York JFK. He talked about the challenges of being in a different terminal from their transatlantic joint venture partner British Airways at both New York JFK and London Heathrow.

Together they’re running what they consider to be a New York – London shuttle, but it’s not convenient because it’s a split operation, and he hints that they may have a solution to that.

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Commercial Plane Crash in Cuba

by Gary Leff

May 18 2018

Cubana flight CU972 was carrying 104 passengers today enroute from Havana to Holguin, Cuba when it crashed not long after takeoff.

The plane reportedly went down “near a motorway and a high school in the Boyeros neighborhood” next to the airport.

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TSA Discloses New Watch List of Passengers They Don’t Like

by Gary Leff

airport
May 18 2018

The TSA has “created a new secret watch list” of passengers they believe have behaved badly at airport security checkpoints.

This includes behavior like “swatt[ing] away security screeners’ hands” and passengers “who loiter suspiciously near security checkpoints” as well as anyone the TSA deems to present “challenges to the safe and effective completion of screening.”

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Arriving in Toronto This Summer? Expect to Wait an Hour on the Tarmac

by Gary Leff

air canada plane tarmac
May 18 2018

According to a Border Services Agency memo between May 28 and September 16 they are moving border and customs agents out of Toronto and sending them to Montreal and Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle in Quebec because they’re expecting an influx of refugees crossing from the U.S. into Canada seeking asylum.

These cases have tripled, and Canada’s solution is to divert border personnel away from legal arrivals of tourists and businesspersons to handle the refugee cases.

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