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Opinion: Stuck at the Airport? Aim Your Frustrations at Washington

Nov 20th 2009 – 9:44AM

LM Otero, AP Planes line up at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 (Nov. 20) -- Thursday morning's air traffic control meltdown, which delayed flights for nearly four hours, wasn't the first time this has occurred. In August 2008, there was a similar failure, with similar delays. And...

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  • 05/19/12 The alternate worlds of John Travolta Source: Perth News FltPlan.com FltPlan.com is the FREE professional full service flight planning tool.
  • 04/23/12 AOPA Enhances Member Benefits with Launch of FLYQ... Source: Airport Business The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) released a new mobile application for the iPhone today that provides detailed airport information, aviation weather, and flight planning capability, free to AOPA members.
  • 10/07/11 Adds Graphical Route Modification to Flight Planning... Source: ARINC Inc Annapolis— ARINC Direct SM today announced the addition of a powerful new flight planning capability—graphical route manipulation—to its popular flight planning service for business aviation.
  • 10/19/10 HONEYWELL: Honeywell Introduces IndustryaEUR(TM)s... Source: TMCnet Honeywell's (NYSE: HON) Global Data Center (GDC), a leader in providing business jet flight departments and charter operators with efficient one-stop flight planning and dispatching services, introduced today the industry's first integrated software solution that connects pilots and schedulers.
  • 09/23/10 Adacel Launches ICAO New Flight Plan Converter Source: Business Wire Adacel (ASX:ADA) today announced the launch of a new tool designed to convert formats between the existing and the planned ICAO new flight plan.

Background on flight plans

Flight plans are documents filed by pilots or a Flight Dispatcher with the local Civil Aviation Authority (e.g.

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