This time I flew into the airport on a commercially scheduled airline, not a military transport.
Once entrepreneurs and expanding companies establish new plants and markets in remote locations, scheduled airline service is bound to follow.
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On average, 1, 500 out of some 22, 000 scheduled airline flights a day were held up, leaving 100, 000 passengers fuming in lounges or sweltering on the hot tarmac.
Of the more than 5, 500 landing facilities available for public use in the nation, only 503 have scheduled airline service with more than modicum of enplaned passengers according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Moreover, general aviation brings much-needed economic development to thousands of communities with little or no scheduled airline service, helps companies of all sizes to be efficient and productive and provides important humanitarian relief in times of crisis.
It left Ryanair as the only scheduled passenger airline using Prestwick.
It leaves Ryanair as the only scheduled passenger airline using Prestwick.
The 737 landed safely in Amsterdam as scheduled, the airline said Wednesday.
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And Transaero Airlines, in cooperation with French airline Aigle Azur, launched scheduled flights between Paris and Moscow in July.
Sunday's Dreamliner flight was the first of five scheduled by ANA in May, before the airline restarts a full commercial schedule on 1 June.
German airline Lufthansa has cancelled the majority of its flights scheduled for Monday due to a strike over pay.
In recent years the airline has focused on having its planes depart exactly as scheduled.
JetBlue canceled 97 of its 570 scheduled flights Friday, a day after nixing 150 flights, the airline said.
Also, airline bankruptcy reorganizations have facilitated padding, since pilot pay is less tied to scheduled flight times.
House Speaker Rep. Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, and House Minority Leader Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-Missouri, were scheduled to travel with Bush as a show of bipartisan support for quick congressional action on airline security improvements.
He said his own initial review of the list released Friday showed that many of the towers that will close around the clock are at airports with few or no scheduled passenger flights, indicating that Friday's decision would likely have little effect on airline service.
The Obama administration recognizes that scheduled airlines focus on about 35 hub cities throughout the USA. Servicing rural America is not an airline priority.
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The airline also improved its punctuality with 79% of flights arriving within 15 minutes of their scheduled time, an improvement on the rate of 66% in 2010.
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