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| FLash | Faced with nightmare scenario, New Orleans empties
More than 1.2 million people in metropolitan New Orleans were warned to get out as hurricane Ivan churned toward the Gulf Coast, threatening to submerge this below-sea-level city in what could be the most disastrous storm to hit in nearly 40 years. Residents streamed inland in bumper-to-bumper traffic in an agonizingly slow exodus amid dire warnings that Ivan could overwhelm New Orleans with up to six metres of filthy, chemical-polluted water. |
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| Struggling Alitalia pushes cost cutting deal in talks with unions |
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Near-bankrupt Alitalia held crucial contract negotiations with unions representing flight attendants and  ground staff Wednesday in a last-minute attempt to save the state-controlled airline from collapse. Alitalia chairman and chief executive Giancarlo Cimoli had set Wednesday as the deadline for union approval of a restructuring plan that includes laying off about a quarter of the company's 22,000 employees. But the airline extended that deadline late Wednesday, saying it wouldn't approve the restructuring plan until Sept. 20, thereby giving more time for talks.
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| Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. announces plan to reflag six ships to Bahamian registry |
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After a year of discussion with union representatives, Norwegian government officials and its own employees, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. today announced its plans to transfer the registry of six Royal Caribbean International ships from Norway to the Bahamas. The transfer of registry for Enchantment of the Seas, Splendour of the Seas, Majesty of the Seas, Monarch of the Seas, Rhapsody of the Seas and Sovereign of the Seas to the Bahamian registry is scheduled to occur by early 2005. Royal Caribbean's other 13 ships are already registered in the Bahamas, as are the nine ships of its sister brand, Celebrity Cruises.
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| Western U.S. flights resume after communications glitch forces groundings |
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A communications failure at a U.S. Federal Aviation Administration control facility forced some airports in the western states to hold flights on the ground in some cases for more than three hours Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. The radio outage occurred at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center in Palmdale, Calif., in the desert north of Los Angeles, which controls airspace in California and parts of Nevada, FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said. She said planes were grounded at airports in the Los Angeles region, including those in Orange and San Diego counties, as well as in Las Vegas.
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| Bankruptcy gives US Airways passengers an unclear travel future |
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Travellers at US Airways' hub airports Sunday wondered whether they'll have to find a new carrier as the company returned to bankruptcy court, renewing doubts about the airline's future.  ``I would be very hard-pressed to book (US Airways) right now, till things stabilize. I can't afford to be cancelled,'' said Larry Landtiser, a vice-president for an electronics manufacturer from the Pittsburgh suburb of St. Clairsville. Landtiser, who was heading to Las Vegas on Sunday with his wife, said he travels to California 12 to 15 times a year and worries that key nonstops from Pittsburgh to the West might be lost.
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| Ivan devastates Caribbean countries – but it could have been far worse |
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Hurricane Ivan killed 68 people and left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean _ thousands of homes torn apart, vast areas flooded and life paralysed on islands where gargantuan recovery efforts lie ahead. But Ivan skirted most big cities, and the devastation could have been far worse. That was especially true in the case of Cuba, where the storm initially was forecast to hit Havana, the capital of 2.2 million, with catastrophic strength. Instead, it only grazed the island's sparsely populated westernmost tip Monday night.
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| FLash | Southwest Airlines mechanics union approves contract extension
Low-cost carrier Southwest Airlines Co. said Wednesday that a mechanics union representing about 1,500 workers approved a three-year extension to their contract, which was set to expire in August next year. The measure passed with 53 per cent approval, according to results posted on the website of the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association. About 72 per cent of the 1,517 eligible members cast votes. Southwest ahares fell 13 cents, or one per cent, to $14.26 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange. |
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| FLash | Employee strike over disciplinary action closes Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower was closed Wednesday because of a strike by employees, the company that manages the landmark said. The strike started Tuesday afternoon, closing Paris' most famous monument, when employees walked off the job in support of a colleague who was issued a disciplinary warning for work-related problems, company spokeswoman Isabelle Esnous said. |
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| FLash | WestJet passes on option to require Ontario Teachers to invest $100M
WestJet Airlines Ltd. has waived its right to require the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan to buy as much as $100 million worth of the Calgary-based airline's common shares. The right arose from a previous financing agreement with Teachers, which already owns 18.7 million WestJet shares _ 14.9 per cent of the company's equity _ worth almost $250 million at current stock market levels. |
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