Your explanation implies that
American Airlines is in material breach of federal law,
namely Title 49 of the U.S. Code (Transportation)
with particular reference to Section 111.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/49/111.htmlSee also:
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_00/14cfr249_00.htmlThe airlines required to report to the BTS in 2002 include:
America West Airlines
American Airlines
American Eagle Airlines
Continental Airlines
Delta Air Lines
ExpressJet Airlines
Northwest Airlines
SkyWest Airlines
United Airlines
US Airways
The rule requires carriers to report on operations to and from the 31 U.S. airports that account for at least 1 percent of the nation's total domestic scheduled-service passenger enplanements. However, all reporting airlines have voluntarily provided data for their entire domestic systems.
The 31 reportable airports include:
Boston: Logan International (BOS)
Los Angeles: International (LAX)
Newark: Liberty International (EWR)
San Francisco: International (SFO)
(Dulles is not on this list.)
Arrival performance is based on arrival at the gate. Departure performance is based on departure from the gate.
Airlines have reported on-time performance to the U.S. Department of Transportation since 1987. Reporting was modified in 1995 to include reporting of mechanical delays, which had not been included in the original rule.
See:
http://www.bts.gov/help/aviation.htmlPlease also recall that airports,
unlike car parks,
work on a very tight schedule.
The planes must be checked and refueled and loaded with passengers and cargo, and then cleared for takeoff on an available runway according to the flight-plan filed with the FAA.
This means that if a plane is NOT where it is supposed to be, then EVERYONE has a headache.
It took quite some time after the ground stop of September 11, for the WORLDWIDE aircraft fleet to get back on track.
A commercial plane CANNOT simply just take-off or land any old time it wants to.
Furthermore, the gate that it pulls up to has to belong either to itself, or to one of it's code-share partners - who has agreed to make said gate available to said airline and said flight at said time.
Also, ALL the code-share anti-trust agreements specify that code-share partners CANNOT switch planes with each other.
In other words, if Air Canada is the code-share partner supposed to fly you into Vancouver, then that is it. Qantas CANNOT just put one of their planes on that route for today. If Air Canada has a pilot strike, then that is just too darn bad. Enjoy your stop-over wherever it that you are stranded. The other code-share partners are FORBIDDEN to fly Air Canada's routes. That is the whole point of code-share -everyone has their own "turf."
The "turf" at Logan Airport has a SPECIFIC OWNER and that specific owner did NOT use THAT GATE for THEIR OWN FLIGHT at that that particular time.
So who did?
And under what authority?
And what happened to the passengers, if any?
Note that if you don't show up at the gate 15 minutes before departure, the airline can involuntarily bump you and not owe you anything.
http://www.pacificislandtravel.com/airlines/airfares/gettingbumped.aspIf the airplane should crash and you die, the airline won't have your real name (which can affect life insurance policies), and this is just plain unethical. Moreover, your legal rights are extended only to the person named on the ticket (or their estate), so in the event of a loss or claim against the carrier, you will have no legal recourse whatsoever.
http://www.pacificislandtravel.com/airlines/airfares/buyingsomeonesticket.aspWith a per passenger fatality liability cost of US$3 million and hull values of up to US$150 million per wide-body, a single major event could cost several billion or many times the worldwide annual premium.
http://airlinesgate.free.fr/articles/insurance.htmUp until now the insurance industry had not considered a terrorist attack likely enough to require an exclusion clause in its policies as standard. Even where such a clause had been included, the policy price was not high enough to cover the cost of claims leaving insurers with little choice but to pay out from their reserves, raising fears they could run into financial difficulties.
As a result, the US industry wants the Bush government to protect it from any future claims and has modeled its proposal on the Pool Re system built in Britain 10 years ago after IRA attacks in the City.
The system puts all the liabilities on the government for insurance claims following acts of terrorism.
But it emerged yesterday that the Bush administration may be offering the industry another option which would only run until 2004. Under the plan, which is still being constructed, the government would share the cost on an upwardly rising scale depending on the size of the claims.
It is thought that the US is discussing financing 80% of any claims of less than $20bn and 90% of any higher claims. Under this, its responsibility would end entirely in 2004.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,575551,00.htmlThis notion has been especially raised with regard to United Airlines Flight 175 and American Airlines Flight 11 which crashed into the World Trade Center towers. These carriers have been sued by most plaintiffs -- American, United and US Airways -- because they cleared two hijackers through security in Portland, Maine to board a Colgan Air flight to Boston, Logan.
http://www.planesafe.org/latest.htm Colgan Air is a US Airways code-share partner.
http://www.colganair.com/ http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/1999/12/06/daily24.htmlThrough September 2003, US Airways has placed its code on more than 1,600 United flights operating to over 80 cities, and United is code sharing on nearly 1,300 US Airways flights to over 90 destinations. Other phases continue to be implemented, adding new destinations for customers of both carriers.
http://www.usairways.com/about/codeshare/us_ua_faq.htmIt has been widely reported that each of the hijacked flights had insurance coverage of at least 1½ billion dollars. Each flight had several policies. (See the lists.) Part of this insurance is specifically reserved for the passengers’ benefits.
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In point of fact, United Airlines filed for bankruptcy in Chicago on December 9, 2002 without having paid one dime in actual claims to September 11 victims.
US Airways filed for bankruptcy in Alexandria, Virginia on August 11, 2002 without having paid one dime to September 11 victims.
American Airlines (after its smaller insurance policies on Flights 11 and 77 paid out $28,735.63 and $42,372.88, respectively) has also been considering bankruptcy.
These two airlines’ bankruptcies and American’s financial plight, have been brought about, not by any September 11 victim’s lawsuit, but by the arguably excessive salaries and "bonuses" paid to its management for poorly managing the airlines and for helping to bring about the large downturn in air travel by having failed to protect their passengers from hijacking and sabotage as the law required. And this in spite of both United and American having received their share of the 10 billion dollars of taxpayer money paid to airlines in the above "bailout bill." The U.S. Congress is currently considering additional bailout bills.
http://www.planesafe.org/latest.htmThis is why code-share is so very important.
Thursday, June 14, 2001
McGee has said if the Bush administration succeeds in cutting the air service subsidies, Colgan Air would end flights to and from Augusta. The airline runs four round trips each weekday to Boston.
Altogether, about 80 rural airports take advantage of the air service subsidies, which started about 20 years ago when the airline industry was deregulated. At the time, members of Congress were concerned that airlines would abandon small airports without financial assistance because operating profits would be slim or nonexistent.
http://homes.mainetoday.com/moving/regions/counties/kennebec/010614augustaair.shtml October 30, 2003
A 19-seat propeller plane operated by US Air Express had flown from Knox County Regional Airport to Boston's Logan International Airport and discharged its passengers Tuesday afternoon when a new flight crew began inspecting the cabin.
The crew found a retractable-blade utility knife in a seatback pocket and a single-edged razor blade under a seat a few rows away, according to the Transportation Security Administration.
http://snowe.senate.gov/articles/art103003_1.htmThings change. Things stay the same.
Colgan Air operates leased Saabs,
and we know for a fact that it was at Logan Airport on September 11, 2001.
http://www.colganair.com/aircraft.htmFor Colgan Air Logan Check In:
See US Airlines Express- Terminal B
http://www.colganair.com/routes.htmFollowing is a transcript of the radio communications of American Airlines Flight 11 (AAL11) and United Air Lines Flight 175, which took off from Logan International Airport in Boston and then were crashed into the World Trade Center. The transcripts were obtained by The New York Times.
7:45:48 -- Ground Control 1: American eleven heavy boston ground gate thirty two you're going to wait for a Saab to go by then push back.
7:45:58 -- AAL11: After the Saab cleared to push, and we're gonna need four right today, American eleven heavy.
7:46:09 -- Ground Control 1: American eleven heavy uh understand you need alpha roger. Push back after the Saab is approved.
Whose Saab was that?
Surely those two guys did NOT miss their flight.
The suspected ringleader of last week's terrorist assault came close to missing his American Airlines flight out of Boston and showed up at the gate perspiring, says an American Airlines employee at Logan International Airport.
The gate agent who checked in Mohamed Atta and gave him his boarding pass told the FBI that she remembers him showing up for Flight 11 late, his face covered with sweat, the source says.
"The girl that checked Atta said he was sweating bullets, that he was running late," the employee said. "His forehead was drenched."
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Atta, 33, then rushed to the security checkpoint and down the concourse – about a five-minute jog – to the gate, where he showed up perspiring, the source says. HE SHOWED UP ALONE, THE FOUR OTHER TERRORISTS HAVING CHECKED IN EARLIER.
Flight 11 left the gate at 7:45 a.m. It hit the north tower of the World Trade Center at 8:48 a.m.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24596How did Abdulaziz Alomari get checked in BEFORE Atta?
Do tell.
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