The Federal Aviation Administration says a brief power outage at a Southern California airport's air traffic control tower forced controllers to use portable radios to communicate with pilots and caused a number of flight delays.
Agency spokesman Ian Gregor says the outage Sunday at John Wayne Airport in Orange County lasted a little more than an hour.
Gregor says the tower had been running on an emergency generator since commercial power failed Friday. He says the backup generator stopped working at 11:42 a.m. Sunday, but the tower was able to revert back to commercial power by 1 p.m.
throughout the outage, controllers used radios to guide pilots through landings. Gregor says around 10 departing flights were delayed by a little over a half-hour.
Gregor says FAA technicians have determined what went wrong with the generator and are fixing it.
Two officials of the Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport were arrested for allegedly helping a smuggler to transport around 10,000 memory cards, estimated to be worth around Rs 20 lakh, Customs officials said today.On-duty airport managers Mahesh Bamane and Rakshit Kapoor were arrested on Monday night along with Mohammed Sayyed Hanif, who tried to smuggle in the memory cards, they said.The arrests were made after Hanif was apprehended by the sleuths when he was passing through the Green Channel carrying the bag containing the memory cards.According to sources, Customs officials had laid a trap at 2B terminal for Hanif who had landed here from Hong Kong on a Thai Airways flight.During his interrogation, Hanif revealed that he was supposed to drop the bag containing memory cards in a dustbin from where Bamne would have carried it outside the airport.However, Hanif could not dump the bag as planned due to security and had to carry it along with him.Bamane helped Hanif by taking him to other terminal instead of 2B terminal where all other passengers were heading to.Sources said, Kapoor was nabbed after his role in the racket surfaced following Bamne's arrest.All three have been arrested and released on bail.
In this modern era where most of us lead a hectic life, we tend to travel a lot to cater our business requirements. Businessmen are often referred to as frequent flyers in the airline industry. If you are one among them serving the corporate world and if you do tend to travel a lot on business ventures, you've got to travel by business class. The sole reason for you to do so is that you can save a lot on journey as
business flight tickets are highly cheap and quite affordable by anyone and everyone.
Of course, you can argue that economy class provides you a much cheaper option for your journey. But everyone seeks for valuable services for the money you shed in for your journey. Ever
yone wants to travel comfortably if not luxuriously. For the latter, there is only choice or mode of travel for your journey and that is first class journey. Nevertheless, business class services are almost as good as the services you may find in first class travel. You got most of the features that are available in first class, in business class as well.
Business class airline services have become highly popular ever since they were introduced. The fact that in the last decade or so, the amount of passengers commuting by flights have tripled, especially business class passengers itself stands as a testimony for the above statement. As a frequent flyer it is the best way for you to fly as you can save a lot and experience a wonderful and comfortable journey by all means.
Discount business class travel is highly predominant as there are several websites online sharing details about several airline service providers as well as merchandising business class tickets to several parts around the world at discounted prices. You are always bound to find a great deal when you plan your trip at the earliest and book your tickets as soon as possible for your journey. Simultaneously off season traveling is very beneficial as it helps you to save more on your journeys. You can also become a member of airline service provider’s packages such as mileage programs and many more which helps you to score brownie points and get additional discounts and upgrades on your tickets every now and then during your journeys.
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