Showing posts with label airline. Show all posts
Showing posts with label airline. Show all posts

Friday, June 27, 2008

snapp!!! The ENTIRE Board Of Air Jamaica Have Been Asked TO RESIGN!!!


There is no confirmation yet to reports that the entire board of Air Jamaica has been asked to resign.

A report in Wednesday's Observer newspaper said the entire Air Jamaica board was Tuesday asked to resign amid growing concerns within the Government that the ailing national carrier is being badly managed.

It is reported that a new Board is to be appointed in two weeks.

This comes two weeks after long serving Board member Noel Hylton resigned.

There were reports that Board members were split over the decision to grant a salary increase to some categories of employees at the airline.

On Monday Prime Minister Bruce Golding bemoaned the continued drain on the country's resources by the cash-strapped carrier.

He said then that the airline had recorded US$1 billion in losses for the last financial year.

Mr. Golding also indicated that the government was committed to divesting the airline by March of next year.

Efforts by the RJR News Centre to reach Board Chairman Shirley Williams were unsuccessful as both her home and cellular phones rang unanswered.

Both Finance Minister Audley Shaw and Minister without Portfolio Don Wehby are off the island.

Friday, June 6, 2008

UH-OOO IF YOU ARE FLYING MAKE SURE YOU GOT ON UNDERWARE!!!


6/6/2008

Body-scanning machines that show images of people underneath their clothing are being installed in 10 of the nation's busiest airports in one of the biggest public uses of security devices that reveal intimate body parts.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently started using body scans on randomly chosen passengers in Los Angeles, Baltimore, Denver, Albuquerque and at New York's Kennedy airport.

Airports in Dallas, Detroit, Las Vegas and Miami will be added this month. Reagan National Airport in Washington starts using a body scanner today. A total of 38 machines will be in use within weeks.

Passengers can decline to go through a scanner, but they will face a pat-down.