American Airlines chief goes public in case to keep JAL deal
USA Today - Mon Nov 9, 2:41 pm ETThe CEO of American Airlines is putting pressure on Japan Airlines to keep its alliance with American and ignore a competing bid from Delta Air Lines Inc.
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The CEO of American Airlines is putting pressure on Japan Airlines to keep its alliance with American and ignore a competing bid from Delta Air Lines Inc.
U.S. airlines' average fuel cost per gallon for scheduled flights fell 41% in September from a year ago and 1% from August, according to the Department of Transportation.
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. airline travel will decline 4 percent during the 12-day Thanksgiving holiday period this month as the slow economy discourages passengers from buying tickets, the carriers’ trade group said today.
The Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport continued to operate Monday as Tropical Storm Ida approached the Gulf Coast.
SkyWest, Inc. reported a 9.3 percent increase in revenue passenger miles for October, while available seat miles increased 8.3 percent compared to the same period last year.
MILWAUKEE----Midwest Airlines today announced it will expand its route map from Milwaukee with nonstop service between Milwaukee and both San Francisco and Raleigh/Durham, N.C. Milwaukee’s hometown airline will launch San Francisco service on April 19, 2010 and Raleigh/Durham service on April 1, 2010.
Denver lost about 250 jobs at Frontier Airlines Tuesday.
AMR fell $.22 or 3.8 percent, to $5.56. AirTran fell $.19 or 4.1 percent, to $4.48.
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. airlines’ on-time arrival rate in September was the highest in six years, as the number of scheduled flights fell to the fewest for the month since 2002.
Republic Airways Holdings, the company that owns Midwest Airlines, has announced it will add 800 full time jobs and keep 700 current positions in Milwaukee.
DENVER - The governor of Wisconsin says several hundred Frontier Airlines jobs will be leaving Colorado and heading to the Milwaukee area.
The nation's 19 largest airlines reported the highest rate of on-time arrivals in September since 2002, according to federal figures released Monday.
The nation's airlines are offering fewer flights, but at least they're more likely to arrive on time now. The government says a little over 86 percent of flights in September arrived on time - an improvement over August.
U.S. airlines will see sharp declines in revenue this Thanksgiving holiday as the recession keeps more people at home and despite the deepest seat-capacity reductions since World War II.
(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of some top airlines companies are down at 10 a.m.: AMR fell $.16 or 2.8 percent, to $5.62. AirTran fell $.09 or 1.9 percent, to $4.58.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Japan Airlines Corp. ’s application for financing from a state-affiliated fund won’t be decided upon before next year, the lender’s president said, prolonging the carrier’s bid to avoid collapse.