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	<title>Joe Sharkey At Large</title>
	<link>http://boardingarea.com/blogs/joesharkey</link>
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		<title>Major Airlines Crank Up Another Fare Hike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Major airlines have installed the third significant fare increase in as many weeks, according to Rick Seaney, the CEO of Farecompare.com Yesterday morning, Seaney reports, AirTran &#8220;increased airfares by $6 and $10 roundtrip (based on distance) across the bulk of their route system. Shortly thereafter &#8230; American and Delta/Northwest matched on overlapping routes, while Continental [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://boardingarea.com/blogs/joesharkey/2009/10/30/major-airlines-crank-up-another-fare-hike/</link>
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		<title>Search Continues for Aircraft Missing in Amazon With 11 On Board</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of this morning, there had been no trace reported of a Brazilian single-engine transport with 11 aboard that went missing yesterday in the western Amazon. The passengers were medical staff working in a campaign to provide vaccinations to in Indian settlements in the rain forest. Here&#8217;s a Bloomberg update this morning. ###]]></description>
		<link>http://boardingarea.com/blogs/joesharkey/2009/10/30/search-continues-for-aircraft-missing-in-amazon-with-11-on-board/</link>
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		<title>Brazilian Aircraft With 11 On Board Missing in Amazon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Photo: A C-98 Caravan similar to missing plane.] The Brazilian Air Force said today that one of its transports, a Cessna C-98 Caravan aircraft, is missing in the Amazon. The aircraft, with 11 on board, took off this morning from Cruzeiro do Sul in Acre state in the western Amazon, bound northeast for Tabatigna in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://boardingarea.com/blogs/joesharkey/2009/10/29/brazilian-aircraft-with-11-on-board-missing-in-amazon/</link>
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		<title>Denver Flights Delayed in Snowstorm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Delays are mounting today at Denver International Airport as a slow-moving snowstorm stalled over the eastern front range of the Rockies. According to Flightstats.com, as of 10.30 a.m. Mountain time today, 244 of the day&#8217;s scheduled 1,685 departures and arrivals had already been canceled. Anyone bound for Denver or making a connection through Denver needs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://boardingarea.com/blogs/joesharkey/2009/10/29/snow-causing-major-flight-delays-at-denver/</link>
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		<title>2nd Quarter Fares Declined Sharply. This Is News?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A standard quarterly government report showing sharp air-fare declines in the second quarter is getting a lot of attention today, but really: What&#8217;s the point? The second quarter ended in June, and that news is &#8230;, well, it&#8217;s useless, frankly, to anyone interested in current fares. As anyone interested in current fares knows, they&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://boardingarea.com/blogs/joesharkey/2009/10/29/2nd-quarter-fares-declined-sharply-this-is-news/</link>
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		<title>Flight 188: Morning Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Morning update. Northwest/Delta pilots&#8217; licenses yanked by F.A.A. And the Christian Science Monitor is asking the right questions. David Lettermen did a Top 10 Reasons why the pilots overshot MSP. Among them: &#8230; We get paid by the hour &#8230; Tired of that show-off Sullenberger getting all the attention &#8230; You try steering one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://boardingarea.com/blogs/joesharkey/2009/10/28/flight-188-morning-update/</link>
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		<title>Flight 188: Say What?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There being a distinct difference between the attributions &#8220;investigators say&#8221; and &#8220;investigators say they were told,&#8221; it&#8217;s probably useful to have the text of the latest update by the National Transportation Safety Board on the bizarre incident involving a Northwest/Delta flight that overshot the Minneapolis airport by 150 miles last Wednesday night while the pilots [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://boardingarea.com/blogs/joesharkey/2009/10/27/flight-188-so-whats-the-story-now/</link>
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		<title>Pilots&#8217; Top 10 Reasons Why They Overshot MSP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Updated with statement from Delta Air Lines at bottom] The two Northwest/Delta pilots who overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles last week claim they were busy working out crew schedule procedures on their laptops and 1. Didn&#8217;t notice that they they had failed to descend to the destination airport for over an hour and 2. Failed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://boardingarea.com/blogs/joesharkey/2009/10/26/pilots-top-10-reasons-why-they-overshot-msp-by-150-miles/</link>
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		<title>Flight 188: A &#8216;Mystery&#8217; That Sounds More Like a Cover-Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All right, all right: Now, what the heck happened here? Who saw what happened? And let&#8217;s cut out the guessing. Of course, it&#8217;s wrong to expect immediate answers in an aviation accident, when investigators are working partly through mechanical and technological forensics, as well as with people who might be involved. But the disturbing incident [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://boardingarea.com/blogs/joesharkey/2009/10/24/flight-188-a-mystery-that-sounds-more-like-a-cover-up/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;This Is Your Captain Snoring&#8230;&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Updated with CNN report: Controllers feared hijacking AFTER talking to an "nonresponsive" pilot] Oops, a Northwest/Delta A320 with 147 passengers on board overflew the Minneapolis airport by 150 miles, with the pilots failing to respond to radio calls Wednesday night. Upon landing after the &#8230; uh, sojourn, the pilots told the FBI and airport police [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://boardingarea.com/blogs/joesharkey/2009/10/23/this-is-your-captain-snoring/</link>
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