‘Super Scooper’ Plane Fighting LA Fires Wrecked by Someone’s Drone

Flyglobespan, Scotland’s biggest airline, is out of business. All flights have been cancelled and all aircraft grounded.

Passengers who are on vacation and stranded can make claims if they paid by credit card.

A help line has been provided for stranded passengers:
+44 (0) 2034410846 for Europe
0871 271 9000 for UK calls

Air travel Organisers Licensing may be able to assist.

The airline stopped taking bookings yesterday afternoon when the rescue package—a financial deal with Jersey-based Halcyon Investments— failed to materialize.

Fluglobespan had ten planes and flew from airports including Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, Manchester, Gatwick and Belfast.

When Skye E. Turner (Is this his REAL name?? how ironic), a 23 year old with an expired student license, had a fight with his girlfriend, he went to Coast Flight Training and Management, in Montgomery Field in San Diego County, and took a Cirrus SR22. He intended to fly it into the ocean; but he thought better of it (Good thinking Skye!) and asked for permission to land at LAX. He came in to fast on his first pass, but made a second pass and landed safely at 2:30 a.m., where he was taken into custody. Since then, he’s undergone some psychological evaluation and has been arrested for theft of a plane.

I hate to be obvious about conclusions, but suicide is never the way. Neither is theft. It compounds the problem. At least Turner landed safely.

According to a Brookings Institute study, people are traveling less since September 2008.

Most US travel is concentrated around 26 hubs.

Half of the flights are less than 500 miles.

Expect delays in metropolitan centers of air travel.

The replacement for radar, the Next Generation Air Transportation System will not be operable until between 2012 to 2018.

There are worse than average delays in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami, Atlanta, and San Francisco.

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/reports/2009/1008_air_travel_tomer_puentes/1008_air_travel_report.pdf