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(CNN) -- A Delta Air Lines flight reporting an engine problem made an emergency landing Thursday at the Colorado Springs, Colorado, airport, officials said. Two passengers suffered minor injuries during the evacuation

Delta cancelling 500 flights SaturdayAssociated Press - December 24, 2010 3:44 PM ET ATLANTA (AP) - The wintry weather expected to rumble in over the weekend may leave thousands of travelers stranded. Delta Air Lines spokesman Morgan Durrant said Friday the company is canceling 500 flights scheduled for Saturday. Some 300 of those flights are out of the airline's hub in Atlanta, where forecasters are expecting snowfall. Durrant said passengers affected by the cancellations have been notified.

The same federal judge who helped set in motion protests in California's farm country when he ruled three years ago that Delta pumping limits were too lax to prevent fish from going extinct determined Tuesday the new regulations go too far the other way. In a sharply worded, 255-page decision, U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger, of Fresno, concluded: "The public cannot afford sloppy science and uni-directional prescriptions that ignore California's water needs." He ordered regulators to rewrite significant portions of a permit for massive Delta pumps that deliver water to the Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California. The...

A rule change made by the Obama administration last May aimed at making it easier to unionize has put Delta Airlines squarely in union sights. The new rule approved by the National Mediation Board — the body responsible for ruling on labor issues in the transportation industry — makes it easier to organize by allowing a simple majority of those voting in a union election to decide its outcome. The board approved the new rule following a Sept. 2009 letter from the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department asking the board to make it easier for transportation unions to win elections. The...

Delta Air Lines survives yet another effort by unions to organize the largely nonunion company. In results released this afternoon, ticket and gate agents overwhelmingly rejected a bid to be represented by the International Association of Machinists. Delta says the vote was 8,746 to 3,638 against the union, and about 3,000 eligible employees didn't vote. Last month, about 20,000 flight attendants and 13,000 fleet service workers such as baggage handlers rejected union representation in separate elections. A prepared statement by the union today confirmed the outcome, but claimed "continued illegal interference in union elections has once again denied employees their...

Delta Air Lines is having what might possibly be the most-popular job search in a long time But getting there isn't so enjoyable. First trainees have to sit through a flight simulator where the airplane cabin shakes, rattles and feels like it is falling from the sky. You can feel your stomach in your throat. Then alarms go off, smoke fills the cabin and a computerized voice tells everybody to evacuate. There are also informal training sessions on such things as how to find housing. Most flight attendants either commute to their base airport or spend a few nights in...

Delta Air Lines is having what might possibly be the most-popular job search in a long time: More than 100,000 people have applied for just 1,000 openings as flight attendants. Part of the reason behind the huge turnout might be the nation's persistently high unemployment rate, but the airline says that a lot of people just want to fly.

11/20/2010 - CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla -- The 45th Space Wing launch of a Delta IV-Heavy Launch Vehicle carrying a National Reconnaissance Office payload has been rescheduled to Nov. 21, 2010, at 5:58 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (2:58p.m. PST) from Space Launch Complex 37 here. Following the scrubbed Nov. 19 launch attempt, the launch team examined the port and starboard common core strap-on boosters in the areas where they received anomalous temperature data signatures during Friday's launch countdown. After inspections by engineers, it was determined that the temperature data signatures were caused by issues with two temperature sensors....

MINNEAPOLIS — Unions lost their second big vote at Delta Air Lines on Thursday, with fleet service workers rejecting the union that had represented the same group at Northwest Airlines. The voting by 13,104 baggage handlers and other fleet service workers ended with 52.5 percent of them voting for no union, according the National Mediation Board, the federal agency that runs airline union elections. Delta is mostly non-union except its pilots. But labor got a foot in the door when Delta absorbed heavily unionized Northwest in 2008. The election that ended Thursday was to see whether the International Association of...

ATLANTA—Flight attendants at Delta Air Lines Inc. rejected a union push in the first leg of a massive labor organizing drive at the world's second-largest airline by traffic. The Association of Flight Attendants said it will file an interference claim against Delta's management for intimidating union supporters, an allegation Delta rejected. There were 9,544 votes cast against and 8,778 in favor of joining the AFA union.

Report of Threatening Note and Box Cutters Found on Flight From Tokyo A passenger plane has landed in Portland, Ore., after an onboard threat involving suspicious items was reported. An official told CBS News there was a report of a threatening note and box cutters on board Delta Flight 90, a regularly-scheduled flight from Narita Airport in Tokyo.

SNIPPPET: "Three men who were on-board Delta flight 259 from Amsterdam were met by FBI agents Monday afternoon at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the FBI confirms. The FBI and other agencies responded to reports of suspicious activity." SNIPPET: "After interviewing the flight crew and passengers, the FBI did not find any indications of terrorism or criminal activity."

A Toluca Lake woman was recently kicked off a Delta Airlines flight after reporting that she thought she had smelled alcohol on the captain's breath. Angel said the captain spoke to her and the three other passengers. After he walked away, said Angel, another passenger asked if they had smelled alcohol on the pilot's breath. Angel said she volunteered to talk with the head flight attendant once aboard the plane. "I told her that I didn't know what protocol is, but I believe I smelled alcohol on one of the pilots' breath," said Angel. Angel said the flight attendant immediately...

A Toluca Lake woman was recently kicked off a Delta Airlines flight after reporting that she thought she had smelled alcohol on the captain's breath. Cynthia Angel said the incident occurred on July 19 as she was trying to travel home to Southern California from Georgia. She had just spent two weeks visiting her son, an actor, who was shooting a movie near Atlanta. Angel, 51, said the trouble occurred after she and three other passengers had a brief conversation with one of the pilots of Delta Airlines Flight 2355. She learned later that the pilot was actually the captain...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Natural Resources Defense Council western director Felicia Marcus to the Delta Stewardship Council. The seven-member panel, created as part of the 2009 water policy package, is tasked with crafting and implementing a plan for the future management of Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Marcus, a former EPA administrator and Los Angeles Board of Public Works commissioner, replaces another Schwarzenegger pick, Richard Roos-Collins. Roos-Collins, an attorney for the Natural Heritage Institute, resigned earlier this month after his nomination was opposed by environmental groups.

Minutes after the news broke about a Delta mechanic dying on the job, mechanics who lost their jobs after the 2005 strike started posting messages on the website, exnwa.com. "These are really derogatory, appalling comments here posted about this man and his family," said Kris Bunton, chair of the Communications and Journalism department at the University of St. Thomas. Northwest Airlines mechanics went on strike in 2005. They lost their jobs when the airline hired replacement workers. Clearly, a half decade later, many still resent the union members who returned to jobs at Northwest and other mechanics now fixing planes...

The turbulence engulfing Delta Airlines Flight 2425 en route to West Palm Beach lasted just two seconds. While the early word from airline officials was that no passengers were hurt and three flight attendants suffered minor injuries on the March 11 flight, it turns out one of the attendants broke her back and has not been able to return to work, according to federal documents and her union. The lead flight attendant was momentarily "suspended midair," grazing the ceiling. A third attendant "was thrown straight up in the air," landed on his tailbone and was held to the floor by...

Two people have been arrested in a flight that was supposed to travel from Japan to Minneapolis Monday, according to Delta officials. The plane was rerouted mid-flight and returned to Narita International Airport without incident, Delta said. The two people were taken into custody by law enforcement. There has not been any information released on why the two people were arrested. The flight was canceled for Monday and an extra flight was scheduled for Tuesday. Hotel rooms were reserved for the delayed passengers. Delta officials said the airline is cooperating with local law enforcement. There were 386 passengers onboard the...

Losing luggage is one thing, but how could an airline misplace a dog? A Canadian man claimed his pet disappeared after he checked the animal with Delta Airlines for a flight from Mexico City to Detroit. Josiah Allen, of Ontario, told the consumerist.com that Delta offered him an apology and a $200 credit for future Delta travel. “I think that this is completely absurd,”