The Federal Aviation Administration told its employees yesterday that they would receive a 3.08 percent pay raise and a geographic-based increase that will average about 1 percent plus an additional raise based on individual job performance.FAA Announces Pay Raises (Washington Post)

The Cloquet native was head of the MAC when Air Traffic was up and the push was on for another airport.Henry Kuitu, 96, longtime Twin Cities airport chief (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

The rising cost of fuel has found a new victim: the recreational aviator.Fuel Costs Force Pilots to the Ground (Washington Post)

Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh continued to remain in the grip of severe cold conditions with the minimum temperature remaining below normal in most parts of the region on Sunday.Punjab in grip of severe coldwave (The Times of India)

ROME: SELEX Sistemi Integrati, a Finmeccanica company, signed a contract worth 230 million Euro with the Gendarmerie Nationale Alg rienne to provide a Large System for Homeland security.SELEX Sistemi Integrati Security Systems in Algeria

A new NASA report on airline safety procedure almost has been overlooked by those in the air travel business locally, just as the Federal Aviation Administration calls 2008 “the safest period in aviation …Despite hype, NASA aviation report doesn’t fly

Enjoy your Sunday, and Go Browns, correction, Go Steelers , correction, Go Tampa Bay , correction, Go Redskins ! PS…..if Dallas loses….Jessica……it’s 440-986-0242…you can jinx me any time.No More Student Air Traffic Controllers

Army Pfc. Nathan R. Koweck has graduated from basic combat training at Ft. Jackson, Columbia, S.C. He is the son of Mary Keeney and Raymond Koweck of Warren.Military people

WASHINGTON Just one day after Air Traffic controllers declared a staffing emergency in Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and Southern California, two airplanes nearly collided on the runway at Hartsfield-Jackson …Atlanta Near-Miss Comes Amid Controller Crisis

Two passenger jets reportedly came within seconds of colliding on a runway at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta.Two Jets In Near Crash On Atlanta Runway

A Mexico-bound Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 came within a few seconds of colliding with a smaller commuter jet Friday in Atlanta as the smaller jet crossed a runway in front of the larger craft, which was going …Near-miss at Hartsfield-Jackson

Daily Telegraph - And at last Tuesday’s banquet for the President of Finland it started picking up signals from Air Traffic control at Heathrow. It bewildered the Finnish Ambassador’s wife when I appeared to tell her she was clear for take-off.” “I can’t do anything …Corgigate: it’s the new Squidgygate

Minneapolis Star Tribune - He was at the controls of the MAC when many believed that the Twin Cities should be planning a second main airport farther from the urban center and when Air Traffic was growing by leaps and bounds. Then as now, airport noise was in the news. “After …Henry Kuitu, 96, longtime Twin Cities airport chief