PEACHTREE CITY, Ga., Nov. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- World Airways, Inc.

TULSA, Okla., June 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Omni Air International (Omni) receives US Department of Defense (DOD) Commercial Airlift Review Board (CARB) approval to provide B777-200ER passenger airlift services for the DOD.

WILMINGTON, Ohio, May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Last week, Omni Air, International flight deck crewmembers, represented by the Airline Professionals Association (APA) Teamsters Local 1224 of the Airline Division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), asked the National Mediation Board (NMB) to be released from mediated negotiations because Omni management wants to continue to compensate Omni crewmembers well below industry standards and maintain health and welfare and other worker provisions at unacceptably low levels.

By Gourdin, Kent N March and April were terrible months for the airlines. Aloha, ATA, and Skybus stopped flying altogether, and Frontier continues to operate but filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

By Gourdin, Kent N I was walking into work the other day and heard an airplane passing overhead that sounded unlike anything I had heard before. I'm pretty attuned to the normal commercial aircraft that come into Charleston as well as the C-17, and I certainly know a C-5 when I hear one.