Southwest Airlines passes key FAA test, schedules more Hawaii test flights

Southwest Airlines has passed a key test in its efforts to gain FAA certification for its Hawaii flights and a second round of test flights begins Thursday. Southwest, whose efforts to start Hawaii flights were delayed by the government shutdown, passed so-called "table top'' exercises with the FAA in Dallas this week and has been approved to begin validation flights, Southwest spokesman Brian Parrish said. The next round of validation flights are different than last week's… (www.yahoo.com) Mehr...