Mon. October 06, 2008
airline companies:
ABC News
October 6, 2008
Travelers flying
American Airlines may face a la carte pricing starting next year, as the carrier makes plans to unbundle services and further alter its fee ...
... charge customers for checking even a single suitcase, plans to imitate the a la carte pricing structure pioneered by Air Canada, airline officials say. ...
Forbes
October 6, 2008
airlines and oil had traded together in recent months, with airline shares generally rising as oil has retreated from summer highs. ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
October 6, 2008
AP NewsAlert Sun Country airlines, facing a cash shortage, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today. Petters Aviation, which owns all of Sun ...
Dallas Morning News
October 6, 2008
Sun Country
airlines and its
parent Petters Aviation LLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday. We were forced to take this action as a result ...
Dallas Morning News
October 6, 2008
Trading Markets (press release)
October 6, 2008
Revenue passenger miles for
American Airlines for the month decreased by 9.1% compared to September 2007, with available seat miles showing a decline of ...
Economic Times
October 6, 2008
guardian.co.uk
October 6, 2008
By Kyle Peterson
Chicago, Oct 6 (Reuters) - US
airlines, struggling to find stability in a time of unprecedented economic turbulence, are bracing against ...
Trading Markets (press release)
October 6, 2008
... has been announced by
Northwest Airlines (
nyse:NWA). The company also announced a mainline load factor of 84.8%, 0.3 points above September 2007. ...
Business Travel News
October 6, 2008
By Elissa Hunter OCTOBER 06, 2008 -- Meeting buyers can anticipate flat budgets in the upcoming year, but should expect to spend more of their budget on ...
MSNBC
October 6, 2008
"The airlines are in panic mode right now," says Mark Britton, the former general counsel for Expedia.com who now runs the legal resources Web site Avvo.com ...
MarketWatch
October 6, 2008
Sun Country airlines will continue to operate and fly its regular flight schedule. Stan Gadek, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sun Country said, ...
ABC News
October 6, 2008
Travelers flying
American Airlines may face a la carte pricing starting next year, as the carrier makes plans to unbundle services and further alter its fee ...
Travel Counsellors
October 6, 2008
Low-cost airlines are bucking the current downturn in the global economy to report record growth in passenger numbers. Figures revealed by easyJet show that ...
London Free Press
October 6, 2008
airlines typically suffer for as long as three months after a major catastrophe, compared with only a week and a half for
manufacturing companies, ...
Cheapflights.com
October 6, 2008
American Airlines is considering an "a la carte" pricing structure which would see travelers paying for the services they choose. ...
Tampa Tribune
October 6, 2008
By TED JACKOVICS | The Tampa Tribune TAMPA - Sun Country airlines, which announced plans to resume service at Tampa International Airport in November with ...
Sydney Morning Herald
October 6, 2008
airlines including KLM,
Air France,
Lufthansa and
Air Canada have introduced mobile-phone boarding passes. They allow passengers to check in using their ...
Aero-News Network
October 6, 2008
A recent Forbes survey comparing 10 US airlines revealed three lower-cost carriers earned highest marks when judged in six categories of performance. ...
New Zealand Herald
October 6, 2008
Speaking on the sidelines of the annual World Low Cost
airlines Congress in
London last week, AirAsia X chief executive Azran Osman Rani said although his ...
Dallas Morning News
October 6, 2008
The team took a 3-2 loss to the Edmonton Oilers at
American Airlines Center on Sunday and put a close on what turned out to be a disappointing exhibition ...
Sydney Morning Herald
October 6, 2008
The Trash Landings report, by the
natural resources Defence Council, also found US
airlines disposed of 9000 tonnes of plastic a year, and enough newspapers ...
eTaiwan News
October 6, 2008
Malaysia airlines lowers fuel surcharges from US$7 to US$107 on tickets issued in
Taiwan for point-to-point travel, effective October 1, 2008. ...
Bernama
October 6, 2008
"We have extended and strengthened our cooperation with
Malaysia airlines (MAS) by including our sister airline, SilkAir, in our ongoing code-sharing ...
Economic Times
October 6, 2008
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) expects
India's aviation industry losses to exceed $1.5 billion in 2008, second only to that of
airlines ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 6, 2008
By Lew Schucart An Associated Press story in today's Post-Dispatch talks about a plan by
American Airlines to initiate the idea of paying a single, ...
Kentucky.com
October 5, 2008
WASHINGTON - Nine major US
airlines are farming out
aircraft maintenance at twice the rate of four years ago and now hire outside
contractors for more than ...
Times of India
October 5, 2008
Ahmedabad: An NRG has filed a complaint with Emirates airlines alleging his three-year-old daughter was hurt after an air-hostess dropped a bassinet on her ...
Seattle Times
October 5, 2008
As if ads in public bathrooms and elevators aren't enough, some airlines are looking at placing them all over the cabin, from tray tables and window shades ...
San Antonio Business Journal
October 5, 2008
Northwest Airlines Corp. said Friday traffic and capacity were down for the month of September. The airline's consolidated load factor was 83.3 percent in ...
Charlotte Business Journal
October 4, 2008
American Airlines' recent capacity reductions resulted in a drop in passenger traffic in September, according to the carrier. American said its traffic ...
Boston Herald
October 4, 2008
By AP WASHINGTON - Nine major US
airlines are farming out
aircraft maintenance at twice the rate of four years ago and now hire outside
contractors for more ...
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
October 4, 2008
Earlier, in August, the 19 biggest commercial airlines flew 60 million passengers, three million lesser than the same period a year ago. ...
RedOrbit
October 4, 2008
Air
New Zealand chief executive Rob Fyfe this week warned of "carnage" in the coming months, with few
airlines able to operate profitably at current fuel ...
Canada.com
October 4, 2008
Can airlines do anything to mitigate these extravagant highs and lows and provide a more stable business model? Or is it in the nature of the beast to go ...
Visalia Times-Delta
October 4, 2008
"Visalia was the best deal," said King, 50, as she cleared the security scanner at Visalia Municipal Airport to board a
Great Lakes airlines flight to ...
MarketWatch
October 3, 2008
Chicago, Oct 03, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ --
United Airlines today reported its preliminary traffic results for September 2008. ...
Forbes
October 3, 2008
AP 10.03.08, 5:32 PM ET
United Airlines, a subsidiary of UAL Corp., said Friday that traffic and capacity both fell in September compared with the prior ...
CNNMoney.com
October 3, 2008
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - In an Oct. 2 story about the outlook for
airlines, The Associated Press reported that
Barclays Capital analyst Gary Chase ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
October 3, 2008
By LIZ FEDOR, Star Tribune Sun Country airlines, fighting to survive a cash crunch, has warned its employees to prepare for the possibility of major layoffs ...
Finance and Commerce
October 3, 2008
by Bob Geiger Staff Writer Expect to see a flight of introductory ads in late 2008 for
Dallas-based
Southwest Airlines, which this week announced plans to ...
