Demand for gasoline surges
Demand for gasoline surges — Americans are celebrating plunging gasoline prices by hitting the roads. After barely rising during the summer months, gasoline demand rose swiftly in September, the American Petroleum Institute said Wednesday. (USA Today)
Hot topic: Calling all road warriors.
Security restrictions causing long lines at T.F. Green Airport — Passengers at T.F. Green Airport have not been complying with restrictions on liquids in carry-on luggage, causing longer security lines and a sharp increase in the number of bags being searched, an airport security official said. (AP)
Continental earns soar on items, fares — ontinental Airlines Inc., the No. 4 U.S. carrier, said third-quarter profit surged, boosted by the sale of a stake in Copa Airlines and higher fares. (Reuters)
Vegas reaching for rural water — The Southern Nevada Water Authority wants to pump vast quantities of groundwater from rural eastern Nevada valleys and pipe it 250 miles south to Las Vegas, the nation’s fastest-growing major metro area, a tourist mecca with a limited water supply strained by population and prolonged drought. (USA Today)
Progress touted in private space travel — Backers of commercial space travel continue to make progress in building customer-carrying spaceships, pursuing novel ways to fly the public into suborbital space. (Space.com)
Top holiday travel destinations — Despite the high cost of fuel and other travel expenses, an estimated 63.5 million Americans are planning to travel at least 50 miles or more from home this Christmas and New Year. Hotel rates are up nearly 15% at some popular destinations, yet bookings are full or nearly full. (Market Day)
SkyEurope says it will pay people to fly with them — SkyEurope Arline, a Central European discount airline, said on Tuesday it will cut ticket prices to minus 10 koruna (US$0.44; €0.35), claiming to become the first airline that pays people for flying with them. (AP)
Airline admits Boeing bolt accident — Singapore Airlines says a bolt that smashed through the roof of a Sydney house came from one of its Boeing 747s. Singapore Airlines said a bolt was missing from the wing of a Boeing 747-400 on flight SQ220, which took off just after 8am yesterday and landed safely in Singapore at 2.05pm. (Daily Telegraph)
Airline pilots union elects new president — The largest pilots’ union elected a new president who promised a return to aggressive bargaining tactics. (AP)
Carrie Charney, Christopher Elliott, John Frenaye, Charles Leocha, Marge Purnell, Valerie Schneider, Mary Staley, Stephanus Surjaputra, Richard Wong.