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>*** Book claims RFK suggested blowing up U.S. airliner -- Blames Cuba
>
>A new book, "RFK: a candid biography" portrays Robert F. Kennedy as
>a ruthless amoral adulterer who once suggested blowing up a U.S.
>airliner and blaming Cuba, tactically working with the mafia and
>being indirectly responsible for the death of Marilyn Monroe.
>American author David Heymann describes Kennedy as "decisive,
>righteous, loyal, brilliantly analytical. He was also violent,
>immoral, promiscuous, uncontrolled. He was a man of great promise
>and a man of intriguing contradictions." Heymann started collecting
>material on Bobby while working on an earlier book on President John
>F. Kennedy's widow, Jackie, and said he quickly uncovered a nest of
>dark secrets. Hard to believe...!!!! AJN
>http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556240977-8a0
>
>*** KLM F-100 makes emergency landing after wheel falls off
>
>A KLM airplane with 67 people aboard made an emergency landing
>Thursday after one of its wheels fell off during takeoff, an airline
>spokesman said. No one was injured in the incident. The outer wheel
>on the Fokker F100's left-wing undercarriage fell off as the aircraft
>left Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Thursday. An investigation was
>launched to establish how the wheel came loose. Flight UK2155, which
>was on its way to Belfast, had 62 passengers and 5 crew members on board.
>The pilot circled for about two hours to burn up fuel before making an
>emergency landing, said airline spokesman. The aircraft belonged to KLM
>UK, which is owned by the Dutch flag carrier KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
>http://www.foxnews.com/news/wires2/0924/n_ap_0924_300.sml
>
>*** PAL 747-400 seized in LAX
>
>U.S. authorities seized a Philippine Airlines jet in Los Angeles to
>pay off some of the national flag-carrier's debt, an airline official
>said Thursday. The Boeing 747-400 plane was the last PAL plane to
>leave Manila before the 57-year-old airline shut down. The plane had
>been scheduled to return to Manila on Friday.
>http://www.foxnews.com/news/wires2/0924/n_ap_0924_412.sml
>
>*** Italian diplomat jokes about Bomb at Vancouver -- Deported..?
>
>An Italian diplomat on assignment in Canada has won a reprieve of a
>federal order expelling him for unruly behavior. Giorgio Copello was
>to have been expelled from Canada with his family last week on orders
>from the Foreign Minister. Court documents allege Copello verbally abused
>a hotel clerk in Whitehorse ÷ calling her "rude, a pig, stupid'' and calling
>Canada "a pig country'' ÷ and later defied Vancouver airport security while
>joking about a bomb during his return trip to Ottawa. Copello responded in
>court by calling the hotel clerk's allegations "vulgar falsities and outrageous
>inventions.'' As for his brush with airport security and police officers in
>Vancouver, Copello stated: "I now realize that these words may have provoked
>the security official and I apologize for them.''
>http://www.foxnews.com/news/international/0924/i_ap_0924_152.sml
>
>*** Walkouts affect French airports -- Again (French Pastime)
>
>Partial strikes affected airports today across France, where unions
>protested the leftist government's belt-tightening policies. State-owned
>Air France was forced to cancel some flights, while other airlines
>experienced delays at Orly Airport south of Paris, when pilots protesting
>salaries, schedules and working conditions at the airline began a two-day
>strike. All the airline's long-haul international flights were running. But
>Air France canceled 20 percent of its medium-range flights out of Charles
>de Gaulle Airport and 10 percent of those from Orly outside Paris. At Orly,
>unions for the airport's 3,900 personnel called a strike from 7 a.m. to noon.
>Some of the airport's 100 firefighters joined the walkout, forcing closure
>of one of the airport's two runways. The runway shutdown caused delays of
>up to 30 minutes, he said. Unions called the strike to pressure the Transport
>Ministry over plans to shift some flights from Orly, the smaller airport
>south of Paris, to Charles de Gaulle, north of the capital.
>http://www.foxmarketwire.com/wires/0924/f_ap_0924_19.sml
>
>*** Senate bill increases flights, provides money for air safety
>
>Earlier this year Congress added Ronald Reagan's name to the capital's
>National Airport. Now the Senate, again over some local opposition, wants
>to expand flights out of the busy airport on the Potomac. Flights to and from
>O'Hare Airport in Chicago and New York's LaGuardia and JFK could also be
>increased under the bill, which would reauthorize programs of the Federal
>Aviation Administration for four years. A final Senate vote is expected
>Friday. The broad bill also would renew the Airport Improvement Program,
>which provides money for airport construction, set up programs to help
>small communities hurt by aviation deregulation and seek to maintain quiet
>over national parks by putting limits on commercial air tour flights over
>them. The bill is S. 2279.
>http://www.foxmarketwire.com/wires/0924/f_ap_0924_41.sml
>
>*** America West Pilots Ratify PBS agreement
>
>The pilots of America West have ratified an agreement with the
>airline to implement a Preferential Bidding System (PBS), a key
>component of their 1995 labor contract. By a majority vote of 65
>percent, the pilots passed the agreement which will resolve several
>contractual roadblocks pertaining to implementation of PBS. PBS is a
>computerized pilot scheduling system that prepares each pilot's flight
>schedule based on his or her personal preferences. In light of other recent
>developments at the airline, this ratification comes at a time when America
>West management seems to be shifting its focus to improving its operations
>and boosting employee morale.
>http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/980924/az_alpa_am_2.html
>
>*** Lufthansa to Take More V2500 Powered A321s
>
>Lufthansa has firmed up options for six additional Airbus Industrie
>A321s powered by IAE's V2500. The aircraft are A321-200s, the largest
>of the Airbus single aisle range, fitted with the 33,000lb thrust V2533-A5.
>They will begin joining the fleet in December 1999. Lufthansa already operates
>20 A321-100s with V2500 power which began revenue service in January 1994.
>The newly confirmed order involves six of 20 option aircraft already counted
>in IAE's order book.
>http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/980924/ct_iae_luf_1.html
>
>*** Durable-goods orders rise, but aircraft sector leads gains
>
>Orders for durable goods rose more sharply than expected last
>month in the U.S., but the gain was largely due to a sharp jump in
>orders for aircraft, a volatile - and weighty - category. Orders rose
>a seasonally adjusted 1.6% in August following an equally surprising
>1.9% gain in July the Commerce Department said Thursday. Economists
>had predicted only a 0.5% gain in orders for August. Transportation
>orders surged 15% though, and excluding that category, orders fell
>2.1%, the first such decline since a 2.9% drop-off in May. The
>advance in transportation orders was the biggest since a 21%
>surge in November.
>http://www.wsj.com
>
>*** Albright, Cook say Libya needs to accept Lockerbie
>
>UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told
>African leaders Thursday it was time to urge Libya to accept
>British-American proposals for a trial in the Netherlands of two men
>accused of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie,
>Scotland. "Libya should say 'yes.' We have said 'yes,'" she told a
>Security Council's ministerial meeting on Africa in response to
>comments from the president and the secretary-general of the
>Organization of African Unity. Saying there was nothing more to
>negotiate, she recalled that African nations had urged the United
>States and Britain to drop their earlier insistence that the two
>*** Libyans to be tried in Britain or the United States
>http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556242157-f99
>*** UK Lockerbie defense lawyer slams Libya
>http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556241462-3e8
>
>*** Yugoslavia accuses NATO, UN of double standards -- JAT to Fly
>
>BELGRADE (Reuters) - Yugoslavia, under growing threat of NATO
>military intervention in the Kosovo crisis, accused NATO and the U.N.
>on Thursday of applying double standards to Serbia and encouraging
>separatist terrorism. Tanjug news agency said Yugoslav President
>Slobodan Milosevic and leaders of his ruling Socialist Party (SPS)
>agreed at a policy session that the situation in Kosovo was
>"normalizing rapidly after the crushing of terrorist gangs." The SPS
>met as NATO ordered the Western allies to offer aircraft for possible
>air strikes against Yugoslavia in the wake of a U.N. call to Milosevic
>to seek a ceasefire and peace talks with Kosovo Albanians.
>http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556242406-376
>*** Bosnia says can't cope with Kosovo refugees, see
>http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556242891-9cd
>*** Security Council Demands Kosovo Cease-Fire, Talks .
>http://www.foxnews.com/news/wires2/0923/n_rt_0923_119.sml
>
>*** Liberia, U.S. strike embassy stand-off deal
>
>MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberia and the United States struck a deal
>Thursday to end a six-day stand-off at the U.S. embassy over the
>presence there of fugitive Krahn leader Roosevelt Johnson. But the
>U.S. embassy said that Johnson, his two pre-teen sons and two aides
>would be delayed until Friday due to logistical reasons. A spokesman
>for President Charles Taylor said that Liberia would not stand in the
>way of any attempt by Washington to fly out Johnson, one of Taylor's
>rivals from a seven-year civil war that ended with his election
>victory in 1997.
>http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556243098-7ee
>
>*** Airlines Cancel Miami Flights
>
>United Airlines announced today that it will cancel a total of 36 U.S.
>domestic and international flight segments serving Miami. The
>cancellations are being made because of severe weather conditions
>expected in the area as a result of Hurricane Georges. The airline has not
>canceled any other Florida service at this point but will continue to monitor
>the situation. United Airlines commented: ``We expect very severe weather
>conditions as Hurricane Georges moves closer to Miami. This will make it
>almost impossible for our customers and employees to get to the airport,
>and this has led us to announce these cancellations.
>http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/980924/fl_united__1.html
>*** Georges threatens air travel plans
>http://CNN.com/TRAVEL/NEWS/9809/24/hurricane.travel/index.html
>*** National Hurricane Center
>http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
>*** National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
>http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
>
>*** United College Plus -- Tomorrow's Road Warriors
>
>Designed to reward today's traveling college students, United Airlines
>launches United College Plus, a new aspect of the award-winning frequent
>flier program, Mileage Plus. United College Plus is an internet-based loyalty
>program for students attending accredited four-year colleges and universities.
>The program, designed for the next generation of business travelers,
>introduces students to United Airlines' products, services, benefits of the
>airline's frequent flier program and valuable travel discounts.
>http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/980924/il_united__1.html
>
>*** FAA Awards Contract -- Surveillance Radar Weather System
>
>The FAA has awarded a $14.2 million dollar contract to Northrop Grumman
>to develop equipment that will provide warnings to air traffic controllers
>and pilots of hazardous wind shear and microburst events. Called
>Weather Systems Processors (WSP), it forecasts the arrival of wind gust
>fronts and tracks storm motion, providing a complete picture of current
>and projected hazardous weather conditions which may impact runway and
>airport usage.
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>* Air carrier Aerolineas Argentinas late Wednesday said its
> shareholders postponed until October 23 a final vote confirming
> the company's new ownership structure due to administrative
> reasons. A company source said shareholders will meet again in one
> month, after they have had more time to review and finish the
> documents pertaining to the deal. In an accord hammered out last
> year which shareholders are expected to approve, AMR CORP's
> American Airlines will own 10% of Aerolineas' holding firm
> Interinvest, with Spanish carrier Iberia holding another 10%. The
> remaining 80% would be put up for sale to investors. (Reuters)
> http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556229660-323
>
>* Philippine Airlines' dismal failure as a privatised company is a
> chilling lesson to weak carriers heading down the same route,
> aviation analysts say. Successful privatised airlines like BRITISH
> AIRWAYS PLC, AIR CANADA CORP, Qantas and Lufthansa had strategic
> advantages over a carrier from a poor country like Philippine
> Airlines Inc, they said. PAL disappeared at midnight on Wednesday
> after years of losses. Its demise comes as several other Asian
> countries look to privatisation to recapitalise struggling
> state-owned loss-makers. (Reuters 12:56 AM ET 09/24/98)
> http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556234475-658
>
>* Air Gabon said on Monday that it wanted to renew its ageing
> fleet of six aircraft, a move that will hopefully boost its
> privatisation plans. Company sources said that, given Air Gabon's
> financial situation, the preferred option would be to lease more
> modern craft. Gabonese officials are hopeful that BOEING CO might
> help set up a regional aircraft maintenance centre in Gabon.
> Boeing's commercial director in charge of international sales,
> Joao Miguel Santos, recently expressed interest in such a project
> at a leasing conference in Libreville. (Reuters)
> http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556245289-5d5
>
>* FDX CORP, corporate parent of the package delivery service
> Federal Express, reported 1Q profits that surpassed Wall Street
> expectations, bolstered by strong domestic results. "The combined
> U.S. domestic growth for FedEx and (the ground-delivery unit) RPS,
> coupled with the successful implementation of yield-management
> actions, productivity enhancements and cost-reduction initiatives,
> more than offset the impact of the difficult international
> business environment.," Frederick Smith, FDX chairman and CEO,
> said. (Reuters 04:21 PM ET 09/24/98)
> http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556245526-34a
>
>* MERCURY AIR GROUP INC announced that it is also repurchasing its
> own 7-3/4% Convertible Subordinated Debentures due February 1,
> 2006 from time to time in the open market under the Company's
> recently announced authority to repurchase $3 mln of the Company's
> Common Stock. (PR Newswire 12:03 PM ET 09/24/98)
> http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556241902-bfe
>
>* MERCURY AIR GROUP INC plans to repurchase its 7 3/4% convertible
> subordinated debentures due Feb. 1, 2006 from time to time in the
> open market. Mercury Air said it will repurchase the bonds under
> the $3 mln common share buyback program authorized by the board
> Sept. 10. Additional information was not immediately available.
> (Dow Jones)
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>AMR AMR Corp........................... 63 7/8 -2 7/16 18210
>ASAI ASA Holdings....................... 38 1/2 - 1/4 1256
>ACNAF Air Canada Corp.................... 4 1/16 - 3/32 136
>AEIC Air Expresss....................... 16 5/16 - 3/16 2067
>AIRT Air Transport Hold................. 6 7/16 - 1/16 113
>AAIR AirTran Holdings................... 4 3/8 + 1/16 1435
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>ALK Alaska Air......................... 40 7/8 -1 9/16 1837
>AWA Am West Hold....................... 13 5/8 - 1/2 4138
>AWA/WS Amer West Airl wt.................. 4 3/4 - 1/4 1079
>AMTR Amtran Inc......................... 23 3/4 + 1/4 66
>ACAI Atlant Coast Air................... 23 1/4 -1 3/8 1675
>CGO Atlas Air Inc...................... 27 13/16 + 1/16 428
>BA Boeing Co.......................... 34 1/2 + 11/16 38052
>BAB British Airways.................... 67 1/2 - 13/16 1177
>CCAR CCAIR Inc.......................... 3 7/8 + 1/16 373
>CEA China Eastern Air.................. 6 7/16 - 1/16 311
>COMR Comair Inc......................... 30 1/2 -1 2953
>CAI/A Contl Air A........................ 39 7/8 -1 1/16 25
>CAI/B Contl Air B........................ 38 1/2 -1 3/4 23984
>DAL Delta Airl......................... 103 5/16 -3 7/16 1941
>FDX FDX Corp........................... 51 3/8 +1 3/8 10224
>FA Fairchild Corp..................... 12 13/16 - 3/8 252
>BIGF Fine Air Services.................. unch 0
>FRNT Frontier Airl...................... 3 7/8 unch 60
>GLC Galileo Intl....................... 39 1/16 - 15/16 469
>GLUX Great Lakes Aviation............... 3 1/16 unch 111
>HA Hawaiian Airl...................... 2 1/8 - 1/8 440
>JAPNY Japan Air.......................... 4 15/16 + 1/16 7
>KLM KLM Airl........................... 30 1/4 -1 7/16 1220
>KTTY Kitty Hawk......................... 13 -1 7/8 442
>LMT Lockheed Martin.................... 98 1/2 -1 1/4 12132
>MAX Mercury Air Gp..................... 7 3/16 + 3/16 49
>MESA Mesa Air Gp........................ 5 unch 827
>MAIR Mesaba Hold........................ 16 15/16 - 5/16 1394
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>MEH Midwest Exp Hld.................... 34 5/8 - 3/8 463
>NWAC Northwest Airlines................. 26 5/8 -1 7/16 5208
>PZX Pittston Bax....................... 8 3/8 - 1/8 1474
>RENO Reno Air........................... 5 3/8 + 1/8 295
>RYAAY Ryanair Hold ADR................... 34 3/4 - 3/4 993
>TSG Sabre Group........................ 31 1/2 - 13/16 406
>SKYW SkyWest............................ 19 3/8 - 5/8 2302
>LUV Swst Airlines...................... 21 11/16 - 15/16 16810
>TWA TWA................................ 5 11/16 - 3/8 8286
>TOWR Tower Air.......................... 2 1/16 unch 76
>UAL UAL Corp........................... 68 3/4 -1 1/4 5890
>U US Airways Grp..................... 57 3/4 -2 3/16 4663
>VIRGY Virgin Express..................... 9 unch 569
>WLDA World Airways Inc.................. 1 1/64 unch 39
>AADFX American Advantage Sh Trm Bd Fd Cl. 9.68 +0.01
>XAL Amex Airline Index................. 309.47 -11.77
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