United may face fine over new tarmac wait rules

The new tarmac wait regulation will be put to the psychometric test when the US Department of Transporation completes its probe of United Airlines and delta Air Lines posing on the tarmacadam longer than three hours.

United operated four of the five flight in the United States during May that were delayed on the tarmacadam beyond the new limit mandated by the Department of Transportation, including one flight that was delayed for nearly five hours.

Delta Air Lines operated the fifth flight, which took off from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International airdrome two minutes after the three-hour cutoff point, according to federal data released Thursday.

Airline under fire over ‘soft porn’ painted plane

Southwest air hose customer are angry that southwest has painted the side of one of its airplane with a swimwear model, tantamount to screening ‘soft-porn’ on its planes.

The temporary paint job is part of a promotional deal with Sports Illustrated to tout the magazine’s annual swimsuit issue.

Some rider complain that they’re being forced to board an aircraft plastered with soft porn.

“Many women do not enjoy having their hubby exposed to explicit icon or explaining to young children why the lady on the aeroplane is ‘showing her boobies’,” wrote Chris and Sharon Kraemer of Midlothian, Texas, in a letter to the airline “I would cancel my ticket if there was time to get a competitive rate.”

Prioritize 777 replacement, analyst says

JP Morgan analyst Joseph Nadol think that Boeing should replace its 777 prior to replacing the 737.

Nadol warns that Airbus’s new A350XWB widebody family, which is scheduled to enter service in 2015, already is eating into 777 gross sales He line that 777 backlog peaked more than two years ago and now totality just 3.2 years’ worth of production, compared with nearly five years’ worth of production in the 737 backlog “Boeing still demand an reply to the A350XWB,” Nadol wrote in a July 7 note to his clients.