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ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — No one is seriously injured after two U.S. Airways planes clipped each others' wings at Reagan National Airport. Authorities say 63 passengers were taken off the planes after the collision Sunday morning.

Last evening I took US Airways flight #707 from Philadelphia to Raleigh. Loading almost last were two Marines with their explosive sniffing dogs, causing quite a stir. We learned, the guys had just returned from a 6 month Iraq deployment only 24 hours earlier. Seats in First Class were given up for these four heros. Their dogs are trained to sniff out IEDs and other threats. One Marine proudly said that his sheppard sniffed out 5 IEDs and a number of other threats in her 6 month tour. He made no mention of what he had done - only how...

MINNEAPOLIS — The six Muslim leaders who were removed from a US Airways flight last fall after passengers thought they were acting suspiciously will not include those passengers in their lawsuit against the airline and police, an attorney for the imams said Wednesday. A motion to amend the complaint to include the names of airline employees and police officers was entered Tuesday in U.S. District Court, attorney Frederick Goetz said. "We've identified the people we think are responsible," he said. No passengers were named. The imams, who were handcuffed and questioned, say the airline discriminated against them and violated their...

Six imams removed from a U.S. Airways plane said they would not sue the passengers whose concerns led them to being kicked off the flight. In federal court Tuesday, the attorney for the imams said, "We don't contemplate naming any private passenger as a defendant." After the November flight, the imams sued the airport, the airline and 'John Does,' which left open the possibility of suing anonymous passengers. The attorney for one of the passengers says the imams' offer comes only as congress is about to give immunity to those reporting suspicious behavior. "The offer is only made after congress...

US Airways on Wednesday withdrew its $10 billion takeover bid for Delta Air Lines, complaining that it did not get a fair hearing from Delta's bankruptcy court creditors. The Tempe, Ariz.-based airline's decision came on the eve of a Thursday deadline for the creditors to show support for US Airway's two-month-old takeover run. US Airways withdrawal clears the way for Delta management to continue its plan to emerge from bankruptcy this spring as an independent airline. A court hearing on Delta's reorganization plan is set for Feb. 7 that could allow Delta to begin seeking creditors' votes for its plan....

Reader Paul S. and several others sent us this letter written by Pauline Klemmer, a passenger on U.S. Airways Flight 300, on which the Six "Flying Imams" caused problems and over which Islamic America is now in hysterics. As you'll note, she details how they were actually doing a dry run and perhaps planning an attack or something of that nature. Also note, her letter is dated more than a week ago. Yet no media interviewed her or reported her story. We've removed her address and phone number from the letter, the second half of which is a must read...

If you believe as I do that US Airways did the right thing in removing the imams from the plane in Minneapolis, please send them a note of support! Here's the link to US Air customer service http://www.usairways.com/awa/content/contact/customer_relationsform.aspx

MINNEAPOLIS -- Six Muslim imams on Monday were removed from a US Airways flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and questioned by police for several hours before being released, a leader of the group said. The six were among passengers who boarded Flight 300, bound for Phoenix, around 6:30 p.m., airport spokesman Pat Hogan said. A passenger initially raised concerns about the group through a note passed to a flight attendant, according to Andrea Rader, a spokeswoman for US Airways. She said police were called after the captain and airport security workers asked the men to leave the plane and...

Six men were removed from an airplane at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Monday evening. Sources say the men, of Middle Eastern ethnicity, behaved in a manner that caused the crew to be concerned. The men were taken off the plane after it returned to the gate and are being questioned by authorities. The remaining passengers were also taken off the flight, U.S. Airways flight 300, bound for Phoenix. Those passengers are being re-screened for boarding. There were 170 passengers on board the plane, which is a Boeing 757. Stay with FOX 9 News and MyFOX9.com for continuing updates on...

Marshals kept off plane at Reagan By Audrey Hudson THE WASHINGTON TIMES November 20, 2006 A team of federal air marshals was prevented from protecting a recent flight from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport because a gate agent erroneously said they did not have the correct paperwork, say marshals familiar with the incident. Officials with Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) were called in to remove the marshals from US Airways Flight 3464 departing Nov. 8 for Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn. "Right now we know, obviously, that federal air marshals were denied boarding," said Federal Air Marshal Service...

MINNEAPOLIS — Six passengers of Middle Eastern decent were removed from a US Airways flight Monday at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and taken for questioning by police, an airport spokesman said. The passengers had just boarded US Airways flight 300, bound for Phoenix, when crew members "saw suspicious activity" by the men and called airport police, said the spokesman, Pat Hogan. Police escorted the men off the plane and took them to be questioned, he said. Hogan said he didn't immediately have further information. The other passengers on the flight, which was carrying 170 people, were re-screened for boarding.

WINDSOR LOCKS -- State police and the FBI are investigating a utility knife that was found on a vacant seat on an incoming U.S. Air Flight to Bradley International Airport from Philadelphia at 8:25 a.m. Friday. State police at Troop W were notified by the Bradley tower that a passenger on an incoming flight had found a utility knife. The passenger found the utility knife and told a flight attendant who took custody of the knife.

US Airways wants to make the most out of a nauseating situation. The airline plans to sell advertisements on its airsickness bags - those expandable envelopes tucked between the in-flight magazines and safety cards. "They're in every back seat pocket," said spokesman Phil Gee. "We figure while it's there, why don't we make it multipurpose?" Passengers should see the new, commercialized sickness bags in September, he said. The ads are just the latest initiative the company has used to squeeze out a bigger profit. America West, which merged with US Airways last year, had the first advertisements in the industry...

It's not just shareholders who have benefited from the US Airways merger. Last year's combination of US Airways and America West Airlines is also creating jobs at the airline, including 600 reservations jobs that had been outsourced abroad. The return of reservations jobs from San Salvador, Mexico City and Manila to Phoenix, Reno, Nev., and Winston-Salem, N.C. -- including 200 jobs that have already been restored -- represents a reversal of the widespread trend to outsource customer service jobs to other countries. "Our reservations team does a much better job than those the work has been outsourced to," said US...

David Burke, an employee for USAir, now US Airways had his job terminated after he allegedly stole $69 from the airline fund. He pleaded for leniency, which did no good for him. Raymond Thompson was his supervisor and fired him afterwards on December 7, 1987. Thompson tells Burke to have a nice day and Burke cryptically says, "I intend on having a very good day." Later that day, he buys a one-way ticket for Pacific Southwest Airline Flight 1771 from Los Angeles International Airport to San Francisco International Airport. The airplane was a BAe-146 and at the time carried 38...

(AP) Delta and Northwest have hired law firms to lead their bankruptcy cases. They've tapped legal consultants to handle corporate tax and immigration issues. And they've put on the payroll financial and aviation experts to advise them on government procurement matters. It's the business of bankruptcy, and these days, with four major airlines in Chapter 11, it's big business. (snip) Just how much the process will cost Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines Inc. and Eagan, Minn.-based Northwest Airlines Corp. is an open question. The bankruptcy case of UAL Corp.'s United Airlines has cost more than $250 million in the nearly three...

US Airways Group Inc. has signed outsourcing contracts with call-center operators Grupo Atento and Precision Response Corp. to handle work done by employees in Winston-Salem and Pittsburgh. Spain-based Atento, which already had a contract to answer US Airways' lost baggage inquiries from El Salvador, will also field reservation calls from that country and Mexico. Florida-based Precision Response Corp. will take reservations calls from an office in the Philippines and will handle frequent-flier calls from an office in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Virginia-based US Airways (OTCBB: UAIRQ.OB), which operates its largest hub at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport, is closing its Pittsburgh call center...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- US Airways Group got more breathing room to pursue its restructuring Thursday after the Air Transportation Stabilization Board agreed to extend a cash loan to the carrier through June 30. US Airways, the No. 7 U.S. airline, has been using the federally guaranteed loan to help fund its operations since filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from creditors -- for a second time in recent years -- last September. Judge Stephen Mitchell approved the loan extension by the ATSB, an arm of the Treasury Department, at a court hearing Thursday. Under its agreement with the ATSB,...

Flight attendants at US Airways yesterday authorized a strike if a bankruptcy judge voids their labor agreement. "Our sisters and brothers have given voice to a clear and unmistakable message: Enough is enough," said Patricia Friend, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants. The union declined to provide the details of the vote...

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FBI Investigates Possible Bullet Holes On U.S. Airways Plane POSTED: 6:26 am EDT October 15, 2004 UPDATED: 11:54 am EDT October 15, 2004 The FBI is investigating several suspicious holes that appear to be bullet holes found on a U.S. Airways plane after it landed at Orlando International Airport, Local 6 News has learned. According to a police report obtained exclusively by Local 6 News, an Orlando baggage handler discovered the holes before unloading luggage form the Airbus aircraft earlier this week. The flight being investigated originated in San Francisco and had a stop in Charlotte before landing in Orlando,...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A bankruptcy judge granted US Airways Group Inc. authority today to immediately cut the pay of its union workers by 21%, saying the airline's situation is so dire that urgent action must be taken. The 21% pay cut is nearly all of the 23% cut the air carrier had sought. "Basically what we have here is a ticking fiscal time bomb," U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Stephen Mitchell said in issuing the ruling. The temporary pay cuts are in place until Feb. 15, 2005, one month less than what the airline had sought. Judge Mitchell also granted the airline...

SO LONG, US Airways. Now that the nation’s seventh-largest air carrier has filed for bankruptcy protection a second time in as many years, many industry watchers give it only a few months before it liquidates. Even David G. Bronner recently predicted it wouldn’t be saved from Chapter 11, and he ought to know — he’s the airline’s chairman. But while most of the pundits are fixated on the reasons for US Airways’ likely demise, one question has gone largely unasked: Who is going to pay for this failure? Certainly, its employees will. Since 2001, the company’s rank-and-file workers have given...

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...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - US Airways Group Inc. (UAIR) told a bankruptcy court on Monday it would skip a $110 million pension payment due Wednesday as it looks to slash costs and avoid liquidation after filing for protection from its creditors over the weekend. *** The company, which negotiated new relief from the loan board, still owes more than $700 million to the government. *** Pension fund Retirement Systems of Alabama, which invested $240 million during the last bankruptcy, owns 36 percent of US Airways. The pilots' union, the Air Line Pilots Association, holds a 19 percent stake. The U.S....

September 13, 2004 US Airways Group Inc. filed for bankruptcy-court protection after talks with its labor unions to cut costs fell through, marking its second Chapter 11 filing since 2002. The carrier and several of its units made the filing Sunday afternoon in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria. In a news release Sunday, US Airways said the filing will let the carrier reorganize itself with lower costs, a simplified fare structure and expanded service in the eastern U.S., the Caribbean, Latin America and Europe. The nation's seventh-largest airline has continued to struggle despite...

US Airways to Seek Court Supervision to Complete Restructuring and Implement Transformation Plan Sunday September 12, 4:23 pm ET Flight Schedules and Customer Programs to Continue Uninterrupted Focus is To Achieve Competitive Costs to Offer Low Fares and Expanded Service in the Eastern U.S., the Caribbean, Latin America and Europe Agreement Allows Airline to Use Cash from ATSB Loan ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- US Airways Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: UAIR - News) today announced that the Company and certain of its subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. The Company said that...

The Senate Judiciary Committee heard Thursday morning from one of its own about some of the problems with airline "no fly" watch lists. Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy says he had a close encounter with the lists when trying to take the US Airways shuttle out of Washington to Boston. The ticket agent would not let him on the plane because Kennedy's name was on the no-fly list — in error. After a flurry of phone calls, Kennedy was able to fly home, but then the same thing happened coming back to Washington. Kennedy says it took three calls to Homeland...

Error Puts Kennedy on Airline No-Fly List 11 minutes ago Add Politics - U. S. Congress to My Yahoo! WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee (news - web sites) heard this morning from one of its own about some of the problems with airline "no fly" watch lists. Sen. Edward Kennedy (news, bio, voting record), D-Mass., says he had a close encounter with the lists when trying to take the U.S. Airways shuttle out of Washington to Boston. The ticket agent wouldn't let him on the plane. His name was on the list in error. After a flurry of phone...

US Airways CEO Calls It Quits Ailing Airline Is Fighting For Survival Apr 19, 2004 8:07 pm US/Eastern US Airways president and chief executive David Siegel, whose demands for cost cuts created animosity with union leaders, resigned Monday from the nation's seventh-largest airline. He will be replaced by Bruce Lakefield, a member of US Airways' board of directors and a close ally of US Airways chairman David Bronner, who has enjoyed better relations with labor groups. Siegel said his resignation reflects a "belief that my leaving is in the best interests of the company, as management seeks to secure the...

BOSTON -- Box cutters were found on US Airways planes in Boston and Philadelphia on Tuesday, and federal officials said they were investigating how the tools made it on board. In Boston, the flight crew found a box cutter on a US Airways Express plane and it was turned over to authorities, said Deborah Thompson, spokeswoman for US Airways. The flight had arrived from Rockland, Maine, and had no passengers aboard, said Ann Davis, spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration. The plane was allowed to leave for Syracuse, N.Y.

<p>Fox news reporting that a US Air Express flight to Mass has crashed off Cape Cod. Flight 9446. Down 3 miles off coast.</p>

ARLINGTON, Va. (Reuters) - US Airways Group Inc. (UAWGQ) said on Thursday it had begun talks with European aircraft maker Airbus after failing to make certain payments on public debt instruments for five Airbus A330 planes. US Airways, which filed for bankruptcy protection in August, said the debt instruments totaled $19.7 million. The payments came due on Thursday. In addition, the airline said it was also talking to Retirement Systems of Alabama, its lead investor, to draw a final $200 million of available funding. US Airways, based in Arlington, Virginia, said it expects to reach an agreement on the outstanding...

US Air Lender Threatens to Liquidate ItSaturday December 7, 1:38 pm ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - The chief executive of the primary lender to bankrupt US Airways Group (OTC BB:UAWGQ.OB - News) said he would liquidate the airline if unions refused to provide $200 million in additional wage and benefit concessions, The New York Times reported on Saturday. David Bronner, CEO of the Retirement Systems of Alabama, said he did not expect to have to follow through on his ultimatum and predicted that cost-cutting discussions between the airline and its employees would result in an agreement by next week, The...

THE LIGHTER SIDE OF POLITICS By Martin M. Bodek - Political Humorist www.scoogiespin.com ========================================================= Ever since hearing that Southwest Airlines was enforcing their policy on charging overweight people two fares, I've been besotted (boy, I've been waiting so long to get that word in somewhere!) with fits of laughter. All good things must come to an end though, and though I keep laughing every few minutes, I'll use the breaks to churn out this article and present you with the series of thoughts that occurred to me in the wake of hearing this news. I first tried to imagine what...