LA Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
By hedging its fuel purchases, the bargain carrier shows a profit increase as competitors dump flights. Southwest Airlines Co. this fall is on track to become the busiest carrier at Los Angeles International Airport and at three of the four regional airports in Southern California as high fuel prices force its main competitors to cut flights.
Today In the Sky (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Alaska Air Group this morning reported a profit of $63.1 million ($1.74 per share) for the second quarter, a figure that is up from its $46.1 million ($1.13) profit during the same quarter in 2007. However, when "special items such...
The Business Journal of Phoenix (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Southwest Airlines Co. reported a small increase in traffic in June, but its expanded capacity meant its planes were emptier than a year ago. (LUV)
Chairman Ku's Little Blue Book (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Southwest Airlines just posted over a $300 million profit while most other airlines are going into the tank. What did Southwest do? It had a management that took advantage of fuel hedging . Where was the managment of other airlines'--weren't they fuel hedging????
Gadling (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Filed under: Airlines , Airports It only took five minutes for three commuter jets to collide at Baton Rouge Metro Airport in Louisiana yesterday. WAFB TV in the Louisiana capital says the incident happened at the airport's new regional maintenance hanger for Atlantic Southwest Airlines. The three planes were valued at $100 million, and reportedly one was totaled. It happened when a mechanic hit the...
The Business Journal of Milwaukee (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
AirTran Airways is expanding service from Milwaukee's General Mitchell International Airport and will become the second airline to fill part of the void being created by a round of drastic service cuts by the hometown Midwest Airlines. (MWA) (AAI)
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
AirTran Airways is expected to announce today plans to beef up its service from Milwaukee to Baltimore and to several Florida destinations - a reaction to coming service cuts by Midwest Airlines. AirTran plans to convert its Baltimore...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
PANAMA CITY, July 21 -- Copa Airlines, a subsidiary of Copa Holdings S.A. (NYSE: CPA), and The Boeing Company today announced Copa's order for two Boeing 737-800 aircraft for delivery in 2010 and 2011. The new order continues Co...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
ATLANTA, GA (MARKET WIRE) Atlantic Southeast Airlines, a wholly owned subsidiary of SkyWest, Inc. (NASDAQ: SKYW), has reached a final agreement with the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) on a three-year contract for the company's 1,008 flight attendants. In a vote conducted and verified by AFA, 70 percent of voting flight attendants cast ballots in favor of the contract.
UK airports information blog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Centralwings has announced it is to provide re-routing options to passengers affected by Ryanair’s decision to discontinue flights from Warsaw, Krakow and Rzeszow airports. The airline offers flights to Warsaw from London Gatwick and Edinburgh airport; and Edinburgh flights Gdansk.
UK airports information blog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Ryanair is again cutting capacity at Stansted Airport this winter. The airline, which had 38 aircraft based at the airport last winter, will reduce aircraft numbers to 28 and reduce the number of weekly flights to just under 1600 – a 14% reduction, or 900,000 passengers on last year. While other airlines are blaming the increasing cost [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Ryanair and BA are among a number of airlines to have responded to spiralling oil prices by cutting services.
The Business First of Columbus (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
A regional airline that runs connection flights for five Port Columbus International Airport carriers is cutting 57 workers from its Columbus base in September. (AMR) (CAL) (DAL) (UAUA) (LCC)
Cheapflights.com Flight News (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Delta Air Lines is to discontinue SkyWest Airlines flights between Yakima and Salt Lake City as of August 31, according to reports. The airline cited rising fuel prices as the reason behind reducing select flights. Delta has operated two daily...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
THERE IS no future for Donegal, Sligo, Galway and Waterford airports, while Knock is "pretty flakey", according to Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary, who has called on the Government to stop subsidising them.
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whipdaddy | 07/01/2008
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