All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 7 2005 // Northwest Airlines plans to begin charging some of its workers who smoke an additional fee for health insurance, according to Knight-Ridder Newspapers.The Eagan, Minn.-based airline will be joining a small but growing...
Nov 6 2005 // Aging workforce” is a term often heard throughout corporate America. Most of us have read how, over the next decade, the 45-and-older crowd will grow to an unprecedented percentage of the working population. This...
Nov 6 2005 // ILLINOISGarrett Bonham, 29, seeks more than $75,000 in a lawsuit filed last month for injuries sustained in his 10 years of employment as a performing knight at the Schaumburg, Ill., Medieval Times, according to the...
Oct 14 2005 // The decline in airline insurance premium rates will slow during the October to December renewal season, despite a good industry safety record in 2005, according to the “Airline Insurance Market Review,” a new...
Oct 7 2005 // Hertz Corporation announced that it has doubled the size of its Gulf Coast fleet, with the addition of thousands of vehicles, to assist all customers, but especially individuals needing cars because their cars have been...
Sep 29 2005 // Swiss reinsurer Converium announced the completion of an aviation fronting arrangement with National Indemnity Company and Munich Re, which enters into effect on Oct. 1, 2005. The agreement ensures Converium’s...
Sep 28 2005 // Officials of two of the nation’s largest aviation insurance brokerage firms: AirSure Limited and Aero Insurance, a division of the Van Gilder Insurance Corporation, announced the completion of a definitive merger...
Sep 21 2005 // As many people across the nation watched on television Wednesday evening, a JetBlue airliner, scheduled on a cross country flight with 139 passengers and six crew members, made a safe emergency landing just after 6 p.m....
Sep 19 2005 // European Insurers Estimate Katrina Losses: A disaster the scope of Hurricane Katrina hits everybody, not just U.S. carriers. The following are some of the preliminary estimates of anticipated losses from a number of...
Sep 19 2005 // European Insurers Estimate Katrina Losses: A disaster the scope of Hurricane Katrina hits everybody, not just U.S. carriers. The following are some of the preliminary estimates of anticipated losses from a number of...
Sep 6 2005 // The plane crash yesterday in the city of Medan on the Indonesian Island of Sumatra has taken 147 lives, 47 on the ground. Remarkably 14 people survived when the Boeing 737-200, operated by low-cost airline Mandala, went...
Sep 6 2005 // A judgment of more than $2.1 million against the Little Rock National Airport, Adams Field, in a suit brought by the widow of an American Airlines pilot won’t be appealed, according to a lawyer for the...
Sep 5 2005 // No less than five airline accidents occurred in the month of August, the most in three years. Two of the crashes killed all those on board. On Aug. 14, a Boeing 737, operated by charter airline Helios Airways, crashed...
Sep 5 2005 // No less than five airline accidents occurred in the month of August, the most in three years. Two of the crashes killed all those on board. On Aug. 14, a Boeing 737, operated by charter airline Helios Airways, crashed...
Aug 20 2005 // Aon Corp. reported on Friday that the four airline crashes that have hit Canada, Italy, Venezuela and Greece this month, have resulted in August being the worst month for airline losses in more than three years.According...
Aug 17 2005 // As the deadly series of plane crashes continued – 4 since Aug. 2 – rescue workers continued to comb the wreckage of the West Caribbean MD-82 that went down yesterday in Venezuela, near the Colombian border. All...
Aug 17 2005 // At least one child on the doomed Cypriot Airline that crashed last Sunday in the mountains north of Athens, Greece survived the initial impact, but died shortly after from smoke inhalation. In all, 121 people died when the...
Aug 16 2005 // In the second major airline accident in just the last three days, officials reported Tuesday that all 153 passengers on a West Caribbean Airways flight from Panama to Martinique died when the plane went down in eastern...
Aug 16 2005 // Trusted Choice, the consumer marketing brand for the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, will again air television ads for a two week run next month, touting the benefits of using the...
Aug 14 2005 // It appears all 121 people on board a Cypriot airliner died Sunday when the plane rammed into a hill north of Athens, Greece.Early reports say one or both of the pilots may have been unconscious prior to the crash, perhaps...