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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Aviation

Airlines make big money by making you miserable

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 20, 2018, 7:16 AM Sep 20, 2018
31

Now, Delta is the latest airline to ensure that the game expands. It’s quietly raised its checked bag fee from $25 to $30. It’ll be $40 for the second. Read more →

This or That

Student pilot lands plane after wheel falls off

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 12, 2018, 8:33 AM Sep 12, 2018
8

You’re a 17-year-old kid, alone in an airplane a few thousand feet above the ground and a wheel on your airplane falls off. What do you do? Read more →

NTSB report blames pilot in helicopter crash that injured 3

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 6, 2018, 10:05 AM Sep 6, 2018
3

The pilot and two medical staff were enroute to pick up a patient at night at Douglas County Hospital in deteriorating weather. But when the pilot couldn’t see the airport, he executed a procedure to go around and make another try. Read more →

Pilot in Anoka crash reported smoke in aircraft

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 23, 2018, 3:26 PM Aug 23, 2018
9

The pilot of a vintage military airplane that crashed today at Anoka Blaine Airport reported his plane was apparently on fire just before it crashed at the end of a runway. Read more →

Regional history

Death of a Minnesota flying legend

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 10, 2018, 8:39 AM Aug 10, 2018
1

The little airport in Silver Bay is gone now and now Wayne Johnson, the force behind its creation, is too. Read more →

This or That

A Minnesota crop duster’s lucky landing

Cody NelsonCody Nelson August 2, 2018, 3:53 PM Aug 2, 2018
12

A 21-year-old pilot must’ve had luck on his side in an emergency landing Thursday morning near Watkins, Minn.
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Economy

Airline passengers finally win a round

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 26, 2018, 12:12 PM Jul 26, 2018
7

It’s a small victory in the airline industry’s war against its customers, but perhaps it will catch on.

American Airlines is getting rid of its ban on carry-on bags for its cheapest-seat customers. Read more →

This or That

Wisconsin air circus begins

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 23, 2018, 8:12 AM Jul 23, 2018
14

The big aviation fly-in in Oshkosh opened this morning over in Oshkosh, Wis.

For one week each year, the airport becomes THE busiest airport in the world. Read more →

Economy

Sun Country finds people don’t want to work for low wages

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 20, 2018, 7:09 AM Jul 20, 2018
113

In a small and rare victory for the working stiff, Sun Country Airlines, still in the process of becoming a cheap, no-frills operation, has found failure in its plan to get rid of its own employees in favor of outsourcing the jobs to people who’ll work for less pay and benefits. Read more →

This or That

Barnstormers drop into Brainerd

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 16, 2018, 9:36 AM Jul 16, 2018
11

There are two types of people on the planet: the ones who look up when an airplane flies over and the ones who don’t. Read more →

This or That

With plane on fire, Wis. man lands in the nick of time

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 25, 2018, 8:07 AM Jun 25, 2018
4

The old saying is ‘any landing you walk away from is a good landing’ but this is about as close as anyone can get to dying in an airplane while still walking away. Read more →

This or That

Airport beckons travelers to its parking nightmare

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 21, 2018, 7:11 AM Jun 21, 2018
23

Parking revenue at Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport is down and the Metropolitan Airports Commission is trying to lure people back to its cement jungle. Who could see that coming? Anyone who has tried to park at MSP in the last year or so. Read more →

Politics

2 big airlines want nothing to do with Trump immigrant kids policy

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 20, 2018, 1:32 PM Jun 20, 2018
9

United Airlines and American Airlines are standing up against the Trump administration’s policy to take children away from parents who cross the border. You’re up, Delta. CNBC says the two airlines have asked the government not to fly the kids to detention centers on their airline. Read more →

This or That

Nation’s only air race for women makes stop in Minnesota

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 19, 2018, 7:01 AM Jun 19, 2018
13

Over 100 women pilots will prove today they haven’t forgotten their routes or their roots. They’re taking off at 8 a.m. in Sweetwater, Texas, in the 2018 Air Race classic. By nightfall, perhaps, they’ll make Faribault, Minn., enroute to the finish line in Fryeburg, Maine. Read more →

Politics

How the FAA gets communities addicted to airport grants

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 18, 2018, 9:14 AM Jun 18, 2018
23

The hardly-used Silver Bay (Minn.) airport is providing a good glimpse into the problem with grant money dangled by the federal government. Read more →

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