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A plane was stopped from taking off from Los Angeles International Airport, and two men on board were taken into custody, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. LAPD Lt. John Romero said the men, who appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent, were acting suspiciously. A law enforcement source said at least one of the men ran into a restroom on the plane and appeared to hide while the New York-bound jet was taxiing on the runway, according to the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case was ongoing. The flight crew confronted the two...

The crew of a United Airlines Boeing 767-300, registration N644UA performing flight UA-938 (dep. Dec 28th) from Chicago O'Hare,IL (USA) to London Heathrow,EN (UK), reported unspecified mechanical problems while enroute at approx. N5051 W5500 at FL350 and requested to return to Boston,MA (USA), later changed the request to divert to Washington Dulles, DC. The airplane landed safely at Washington International Airport 3:15 hours later. A replacement Boeing 767-300 N654UA resumed the flight and reached London with a delay of 9 hours. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL938/history/20081229/0332Z/KORD/EGLL

FBI Warns of Potential Terror Attacks The FBI and Department of Homeland Security today issued an analytical "note" to U.S. law-enforcement officials cautioning that al-Qaida terrorists have in the past expressed interest in attacking public buildings using a dozen suicide bombers each carrying 20 kilograms of explosives. Authors with the U.S. Office of Intelligence and Analysis added that they have "no credible or specific information that terrorists are planning operations against public buildings in the United States." The FBI and DHS analysts said they were releasing the note because "it is important for local authorities and building owners and...

Excerpt - United Airlines saw a 76 percent drop in its share price Monday, after it was reported that the company had filed for bankruptcy protection. The news story turned out to have been six years old and had been erroneously picked up by the Google News service. It was then posted to the Bloomberg Professional network. In the words of duckcommander80 from Yahoo Finance's message board, who lost $19,000, "WHO THE HELL DO WE SUE???????" It's not clear... ~ snip ~

SNIP The events that briefly torpedoed the airline's stock started Saturday night. But Tribune Co. and Google disagree on the exact chain of events. Google spokesman Gabriel Stricker said sudden activity on the Sun-Sentinel Web site attracted the attention of a Google program to catalog information on the Web. However, Tribune Co. spokesman Gary Weitman, said a company investigation of activity on the Sun-Sentinel Web site found there was no activity on the story until approximately the same time the Google program, called a "bot," visited the Sun-Sentinel site around 10:30 p.m. Pacific time and found the story, which was...

US Airways is imposing new passenger fees in the face of rising jet fuel prices, but it's going even further than some other airlines have recently. The Tempe, Ariz.-based carrier (NYSE: LCC), which has a large presence at Reagan National Airport, will start charging $2 for nonalcoholic beverages in coach class on all domestic flights. The fee covers sodas, juices, bottled water and coffee. The charge for alcoholic beverages in coach will increase to $7. Following the lead of several other airlines, US Airways also will charge $15 for the first checked bag for tickets purchased beginning July 9 for...

A Seattle-area man has been charged by federal air marshals with groping a female passenger aboard a United Airlines flight that was diverted to Pittsburgh as a result of the alleged incident. Michael L. Holland, 46, made his initial appearance before a magistrate on Monday on a charge of abusive sexual contact, according to Ted Hresko, special agent in charge of the Pittsburgh air marshals' office. Holland had been chatting with the woman Sunday on United Flight 917, which was bound for Seattle from Dulles International Airport near Washington D.C., Hresko said. ""The next thing you know, he's groping her,"...

Organizers of San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair — sponsored by Miller Brewing Co. – have portrayed Christ and his disciples as half-naked homosexual sadomasochists in the event’s promotional advertisement, and the conservative group Concerned Women for America is complaining about the hypocrisy of it... After someone from Miller pulled their head out of the ass, Miller has asked to have its log removed from the advertising poster for the “event.” So far, however, Miller has NOT pulled its sponsorship of this freak show...

(AP) DENVER An empty passenger bridge collapsed over the wing of a United Airlines plane at Denver International Airport on Friday, damaging the aircraft but causing no injuries, the airline said. The cause of the collapse and the extent of the damage were not immediately known. United spokeswoman Megan McCarthy said the Boeing 757 had just arrived from Boston and the 184 passengers and crew were still on board. The bridge extends from the concourse to the plane. The one that collapsed is a new type that extends over the wing so passengers can use both the front and rear...

This past Sunday I was flying through Chicago from Houston. While I was waiting at Chicago O’Hare for my flight to Springfield, a flight at an adjoining gate was preparing to board. Sitting amongst all the people waiting on their flights was one soldier. The United Airlines gate agent announced that they were preparing to board a flight starting with first class. However, before first class could begin boarding she said “But before we begin boarding first class, United would like to allow” (and I cannot for the life of me remember the soldier’s name) “who just came home from...

United Airlines will begin service from L.A./Palmdale Regional Airport to San Francisco on June 7, officials announced Monday. It will mark the return of commercial passenger service to the terminal adjacent Air Force Plant 42, following a brief period of limited service that ended a year ago. The twice-daily roundtrip flights will provide passengers with connections to more than 200 United domestic flights from the airline's San Francisco hub, as well as numerous flights throughout Asia, Mexico, Canada, London and Sydney, United spokeswoman Robin Urbanski said. Los Angeles World Airports, the city agency that owns and operates the Palmdale, Los...

Everette Howard Hunt, the man who helped plan the Watergate break-in and wiretapping operation, is dead at age 88, FOX News has learned... With his involvement in Watergate and the Bay of Pigs, Hunt became a magnet for conspiracy theorists of all kinds. Those researching the assassination of President John F. Kennedy began claiming in the mid-1970s that Hunt and Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis appeared in photographs dressed as tramps and being arrested by Dallas policemen near the site of the assassination on Nov. 22, 1963. Hunt vigorously contested the charges publicly and in court, and he and his second...

I didn't know if there was a west coast version of this thread. It didn't make sense to post on thread for the show that was almost over on the East Coast.

Tonight NewsChannel 8 reports on the inflight entertainment you see on United Airlines flights from Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, and San Francisco to Portland. In the interest of full diclosure, it should first be noted, KGW's network, NBC, is paid to develop United's inflight programming. But now, United admits it's added a 13-minute segment that's not produced by NBC... though it may be difficult to distinguish it. That 13-minute segment is called "Today's Military". It looks a lot like an NBC News program, profiling ten members of the US Military, all over the world... including Oregon National Guardsman Andrew Canfield....

April 22, 2006 (by Lieven Dewitte) - A passenger who claimed to have a bomb aboard a United Airlines flight was subdued by passengers as the California-bound plane was diverted to Denver International Airport. Two F-16 fighter jets from Buckley Air Force Base scrambled to escort the plane. The A-320 Airbus heading to Sacramento, Calif., from Chicago flew into Denver Friday. The F-16s followed to make sure nothing untoward was going to happen. Jose Manuel Pelayo-Ortega tried to open an door on the Airbus A-320 en route from Chicago to Sacramento, Calif., and then claimed to have a bomb forcing...

DENVER -- With three Secret Service agents aboard and the pilots fully in control of a United Airlines jetliner being diverted to Denver, two F-16 fighter jets scrambled to intercept the flight merely escorted the plane into Denver International Airport. But the apparatus that could ultimately have lead to the plane with 138 passengers and six crew members being shot down -- put in place after 911 -- was fully operational Friday, with agencies that included the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Homeland Security on an open phone line monitoring the flight. Had the plane "been judged as...

United Airlines Flight Diverted to DenverDENVER - A passenger who claimed to have a bomb aboard a United Airlines flight was subdued by passengers as the California-bound plane was diverted to Denver International Airport, airport officials said. Two F-16 fighter jets from Buckley Air Force Base scrambled to escort the plane as it flew into Denver Friday, according to Lt. Commander Sean Kelly, a spokesman for NORAD. "They followed to make sure nothing untoward was going to happen," he said. Jose Manuel Pelayo-Ortega was arrested after the plane landed around 4:30 p.m., FBI spokeswoman Monique Kelso said. Three Secret Service...

Is it a coincidence? Is it subliminal? Is it a conspiracy? You decide. Phonetic Alphabet Letter Pronunciation Letter Pronunciation Number Pronunciation A Alpha (AL fah) N November (no VEM ber) 0 ZEE row B Bravo (BRAH VOH) O Oscar (OSS cah) 1 WUN C Charlie (CHAR lee) P Papa (pah PAH) 2 TOO D Delta (DELL tah) Q Quebec (keh BECK) 3 TREE E Echo (ECK oh) R Romeo (ROW me oh) 4 FOW er F Foxtrot (FOKS trot) S Sierra (see AIR rah) 5 FIFE G Golf (GOLF) T Tango (TANG go) 6 SIX H Hotel (hoh TELL) U...

Had Driven Into Car Dealership Last Weekend Gerald Georgettis, 56, was obviously a troubled man... and his life came to an end Wednesday, on a United Airlines flight from Washington, DC to Los Angeles. Georgettis achieved notoriety last weekend after he drove his Ford Escape into the Miami-Dade, FL car dealership where he had just purchased the small SUV. He then poured gasoline on the vehicle, and lit a match. The resulting fire caused nearly $1 million in damages to the dealership and the cars parked in its showroom. Media outlets throughout the country picked up the story. Earlier...

...If a recent federal indictment that refers to Milberg Weiss is anything to go by, the trial bar has its Enron.... Sham "screenings" to round up asbestos plaintiffs, forum shopping for friendly juries, "coupon" settlements that enrich only lawyers and frivolous lawsuits have all become staples of today's tort system. Yet they have received almost no media, much less legal, scrutiny. ...The focus of the charges is retired Palm Springs lawyer Seymour Lazar, who seems to have had a second career as a plaintiff in Milberg Weiss lawsuits. From 1976 to 2004, Mr. Lazar and family members... served as named...

Employees of United Airlines recently got a frightening lesson in the “ownership society.” The lesson was: If you don’t own and control your retirement assets, they can be slashed or taken away at any time. A federal bankruptcy judge approved United’s request to dump its pension plan into the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp., a federal agency that takes over insolvent retirement plans. More than 120,000 United employees and former employees — including many who are already retired — will see major cuts in their retirement benefits. For decades, United has promised its workers generous payments in retirement. As other industries...

CHICAGO (AP) _ Some United Airlines flight attendants are baring more than their souls to protest being stripped of their pensions. Five women, ranging in age from 55 to 64, are posing for a 2006 calender. Retired flight attendant Connie Baker is the project's creator and one of the volunteer models. She hopes the calendar will raise some money for charity and some awareness about United's pension situation. Baker says her pension will be cut in half thanks to a decision by a bankruptcy court that will allow the airline to terminate retirement benefits. While Baker and the others show...

CHICAGO (May 10) - With scores of its concerned employees and retirees looking on, United Airlines told a judge Tuesday it has no choice but to shed billions of dollars of pension obligations in order to emerge successfully from bankruptcy. At a packed hearing with broad implications for U.S. airlines and their workers, United asked a federal bankruptcy judge to approve an agreement shifting responsibility for its defined-benefit plans to the government's pension agency. The funds are underfunded by an estimated $9.8 billion. Unless rejected by Judge Eugene Wedoff, it will be the largest corporate-pension default in U.S. history, topping...

The facade of the reservations office for United Airlines at Ho Chi Minh City. SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - A United Airlines jumbo jet took off from San Francisco at the start of the historic first US commercial flight to Vietnam since the fall of Saigon nearly 30 years ago. Flight UA869, a 347-seater Boeing 747-400 airliner, lifted off from San Francisco International Airport bound for Ho Chi Minh City, the southern Vietnamese hub formerly known as Saigon, via Hong Kong. The jet will on Friday become the first American commercial carrier to touch down in Vietnam since the end of...

Watch List Passenger ID'd as Cat Stevens Tuesday, September 21, 2004 BANGOR, Maine — A passenger who was matched to a federal watch list, forcing a jetliner to be diverted, has been identified as singer-cum-Muslim convert Cat Stevens (search), according to federal officials. The plane bound for Washington, D.C., from London landed in Bangor Tuesday, authorities said. United Airlines (search) flight 919 had already taken off from London en route to Dulles International Airport when the match was made, according to Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration.

The nation's pension insurer said Tuesday it will guarantee basic pension benefits to employees and retirees at United Airlines and US Airways if their plans are dissolved, but it said the potential terminations point to a need for legal reforms. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., a quasi-governmental agency, said it plans to ask Congress to revise the federal bankruptcy laws so workers' pensions are more secure. The PBGC will propose such changes as allowing workers' pension claims to trump claims by unsecured creditors in bankruptcy-court proceedings. It also will call for companies to notify workers about the health of their...

SYDNEY, Australia — A United Airlines flight from Australia (search) to Los Angeles (search) returned to Sydney International Airport on Tuesday after staff found a note carrying a bomb threat, Australia's transport minister said.

Official: Kerry failed to act on pre-9/11 tip 3rd agent to say he warned security lapses made Boston airport ripe for 'jihad' attack WASHINGTON - A third federal aviation-security agent, one still with the government, has stepped forward to say he also warned Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry about security lapses at Boston's Logan International Airport before the 9/11 hijackings there. Earlier this week, two former FAA agents said the Democratic presidential hopeful failed to take effective action after they gave him a prophetic warning that his home airport was vulnerable to multiple hijackings. Brian Sullivan, a retired special agent from...

The head of a Washington, DC based media watchdog group is asking that advertisers demand to preview a planned CBS mini series on former President Ronald Reagan before sponsoring the program. Media Reasearch Center President L. Brent Bozell Tuesday sent a letter to each of the nations top 100 advertisers urging them to preview the movie before making a sponsorship decision because it is what Bozell called 'a partisan attack against one of Americas most beloved Presidents.'A review of the script by New York Times writer Jim Reutenberg noted the two part mini series, scheduled for later this month, makes...

September 11th, 2001. A day in which most United States citizens and many around the world will remember. I remember it as I was driving to work. I was living in Illinois at the time, and I was almost to my office when I heard the news report on the radio. It had stated a twin propeller airplane had crashed into the World Trade center. They stated it may have been a DC-3. Being a pilot, I immediately went into aviation mode. I then said a short prayer for those who lost their lives not realizing what was to come....

UPDATE - UAL posts biggest airline loss of quarter CHICAGO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Bankrupt UAL Corp. (OTC BB:UALAQ.OB - News), parent of United Airlines, on Friday posted the biggest net loss of all major U.S. carriers for the quarter just ended, including reimbursement from the federal government for security fees, as revenue plunged 18 percent. The world's second-largest airline, like other carriers, suffered from depressed travel as the United States led a war in Iraq and particularly as the deadly SARS virus spread through Asia, one of its crucial markets. Its net loss, which includes special items associated with...

Charges over rapper's missing jewellery 02jul03A MAN has been charged with demanding $US25,000 ($37,202) from rapper Lil' Kim to return a necklace that went missing from her luggage at the airport. John Acheson was charged with attempted grand larceny, attempted grand larceny by extortion and attempted coercion, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement yesterday. The 31-year-old was being held yesterday pending arraignment, Brown said, and was unavailable for comment. There was no home telephone listing for Acheson, who could face up to four years in prison if convicted. Lil' Kim, whose real name is Kimberly Jones, was...

WASHINGTON -- United Airlines pilots soon may get stun guns to defend the cockpit against intruders, federal officials said Monday after determining that the devices "can play an important role in aviation security." United is the only major carrier to request approval for stun guns and stands to be first to benefit from a decision by the Transportation Security Administration to allow the weapons on an airline-by-airline basis. "We've gone through James Bond's toolbox in looking at nonlethal devices," said TSA spokesman Brian Turmail. "We've looked at devices that shoot beanbags and nets, and some that disperse chemicals. We've decided...

NYSE banishes bankrupt UAL sharesBy Jennifer Waters, CBS.MarketWatch.com Last Update: 5:22 PM ET March 28, 2003NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- The New York Stock Exchange said after the bell Friday that it plans to delist shares of UAL Corp., the bankrupt parent of United Airlines, next week.In a press release, the exchange said that the company's share price will have stayed under $1 for more than 30 days on April 3. That's the exchange's threshold for delisting. After that date, the shares will be traded in the over-the-counter market.UAL (UAL: news, chart, profile) shares closed up a penny at 85 cents.UAL...

<p>United Airlines said domestic bookings are down and international bookings have dropped 40 percent in the last week alone.</p> <p>CHICAGO, March 18 ?  Bankrupt United Airlines forecast a first-quarter operating loss of $877 million and said for the first time publicly that going out of business altogether is a ?distinct possibility? as war looms. UAL Corp.?s United said domestic bookings are down and international bookings have dropped 40 percent in the last week alone, due to the impending Iraq conflict.</p>

A United Airlines flight from Hawaii to San Francisco plunged suddenly after hitting turbulence early Thursday, injuring 10 people, including five flight attendants who were slammed into the jet's ceiling. Seven of those injured were taken to a hospital, San Francisco International Airport officials said. The flight was carrying 147 passengers.

What do beleaguered United Airlines and McDonald's have in common? Lousy service. It drives customers away and it makes advertising a total waste of money. Nobody will pay attention to clever ad blandishments after they are yelled at by flight attendants (as my daughter and her family were) or had to wait 15 minutes for a Quarter-Pounder with Cheese (as I had to). It's nice to know our family publishing company made more money this year than the U.S. airlines combined. What that shows is the big airlines' costs are too high and their revenue can't support them. Their only...

<p>The national union president for jittery United Airlines mechanics expressed confidence Saturday that the company -- and at least some of its jobs -- will survive.</p> <p>But Tom Buffenbarger's speech to union activists in Indianapolis blasted the Bush administration for denying $1.8 billion in government loan guarantees that he said could have prevented the company's current troubles.</p>

<p>The government's decision to deny United Airlines a $1.8 billion loan guarantee all but ensures that the carrier is headed for bankruptcy court. It could also make the company's boss about $2 million richer.</p> <p>United announced earlier this week that Glenn Tilton, who took over as chief executive officer in September, and other senior managers would be willing to take average 11 percent pay cuts and forgo annual bonuses to share the pain with employees.</p>

<p>United Airlines had it coming.</p> <p>UAL Corp., parent of United, has no one to blame but itself for its financial woes and impending bankruptcy, according to competitors, Wall Street and government sources.</p> <p>The company, which is 55 percent owned by its employees, has long had a bloated payroll and other high-cost inefficiencies that made it one of the lowest-profit airlines for years.</p>

A local produce distributor said yesterday that United Airlines planned to triple its rates to fly fresh fruits and vegetables to Hawaii next week because of the work shutdown keeping 29 ports on the West Coast closed. United later backed off the increase, he said. Mark Teruya, president of Armstrong Produce Ltd., said an e-mail sent from United Airlines to his freight forwarder in San Francisco outlined rate increases ranging from 75 percent to 300 percent, depending on the container size. A 300 percent increase would boost the cost for one container size, listed as an LD7, to $5,000 from...

October 20, 2001 F.B.I. Asks if Hijacking Plot Included Plane at Kennedy By MATTHEW L. WALD ASHINGTON, Oct. 19 — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into whether a United Airlines flight scheduled to leave Kennedy International Airport for San Francisco was a target of hijackers on Sept. 11, aviation and law enforcement officials said. The United plane, Flight 23, was late pushing back from the gate and was seventh in line for takeoff when Kennedy was closed because of the terrorist attacks. When the captain announced that the plane was returning to the gate, four male passengers ...

WASHINGTON (June 28, 2002 6:11 p.m. EDT) - Less than half of the major U.S. airlines sought government-backed loans under a program created to help the industry recover from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Of the country's 11 largest passenger airlines, only four - America West, American Trans Air, United Airlines and US Airways - asked the Air Transportation Stabilization Board to lend them money to keep flying. The loan program required airlines to provide detailed information and let the government buy stock in their companies, a provision modeled after the Chrysler bailout. "Once they actually looked at what the...