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Feature Articles
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What Happens if an Airplane's Engines All Fail? |
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Although
exceedingly rare, such events do occasionally happen.
Here's a report telling you what
to expect, prepared with the assistance of several airline
pilots. |
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The Amtrak Funding
Scandal |
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Why does the
government willingly give billions of dollars to the airlines
(even to ones that are profitable!) but begrudge every penny
that Amtrak desperately needs.
Read more about this scandal, and
what you can do to help encourage appropriate government action. |
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Amtrak Answers |
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Amtrak's critics
in Congress are once more blaming the troubled railroad company
for its chronic unprofitability, and demanding it either become
profitable or be broken up.
But who is really to blame for
Amtrak's problems? Could it be that Amtrak's critics are also
the creators of Amtrak's current impossible situation? |
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Correspondence with ASTA |
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An unsuccessful
attempt to get the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) to
explain and defend itself in response to the regular criticism
from both me and travel agent readers. |
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Freedoms of the Air |
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The meaning behind
terms such as 'third freedom' that are sometimes used to describe
airline routes and their negotiations with governments. |
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