It's real heartbreaking to see the old planes getting all crushed up," Rick Quillen, the security chief, said as he drove through the sea of unused aluminium. "Last week they sold off a couple of planes to Korea to be turned into restaurants. I told the Korean guys: 'You must really like airline food.' But they didn't laugh.... (more)
On September 5, 2002, the U.S. Senate voted 87-6 in favor of the Boxer-Smith Amendment to the pending Homeland Security legislation (HR 5005) despite continuing objections by the Bush administration and intense lobbying against the measure by airline managements.... (more)
