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Southwest CEO sees no return of business travelers

AP - Wed Dec 9, 12:11 pm ET

The CEO of Southwest Airlines says business travel is still slow and he doesn't expect it to improve next year either.

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Southwest eyes strong end to 2009, traffic rises 11.7% in Nov.
USA Today - Sun Dec 6, 4:42 pm ET
Southwest Airlines Co. said Friday that November traffic jumped 11.7% over the same month last year, when recession and shock waves in the financial industry were hurting business travel.
'Blind Side' Eclipses 'New Moon' At Box Office
KETV 7 Omaha - Sun Dec 6, 12:21 pm ET
Sandra Bullock's latest movie "The Blind Side" takes the movie industry by surprise by taking the No. 1 spot at the box office in its third week of release.
'Blind Side' eclipses 'New Moon' with $20M weekend
El Paso Times - Sun Dec 6, 12:03 pm ET
LOS ANGELES—The football-inspired drama "The Blind Side" has become the underdog hit of the season with a $20.
Parking lot is key to success for rail station
The Record and Herald News - Sun Dec 6, 11:03 am ET
Somebody at NJ Transit would be smart to announce that its six-year-old marble rail palace in Secaucus is a success — a major achievement in a recession.
2009 Large Market Benchmarking Report: Sizing Up Large Market Travel Buyers
Business Travel News - Sun Dec 6, 9:29 am ET
NOVEMBER 23, 2009 -- After more than a decade of annually benchmarking the 100 biggest spenders in terms of U.S. point-of-sale airline travel, and taking several annual measurements along the way of the companies with small and midmarket air travel volumes, Business Travel News editors this year for the first time sought a clear picture of the companies constituting the large market, those that ...
Airport kiosks do nearly everything
Chicago Tribune - Sun Dec 6, 8:46 am ET
Also: Business travel is looking up, and $40 flights to India were just a British Airways typo. The growing army of self-serve kiosk computers at the nation's airports never sleeps, never complains and works fast. And today the machines are being asked to do more than ever.
'Up in the Air' reflects nation's current economic turbulence
Detroit Free Press - Sun Dec 6, 3:46 am ET
"Up in the Air" seems cleared for a smooth takeoff. Funny and moving, the film -- which has some interesting connections to metro Detroit -- is being praised for its timeliness.
At 6 months pregnant her role was ‘Up in the Air’
Provo Daily Herald - Sun Dec 6, 3:22 am ET
Cool, complicated and impossibly sexy, Alex, the business traveler played by Vera Farmiga in "Up in the Air," is a role to die for. She spars with -- and seduces -- George Clooney's corporat
AirTran leaves S.C. airport, citing lack of business
The Times and Democrat - Sun Dec 6, 1:30 am ET
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Discount airline AirTran has pulled out of a major South Carolina airport, citing a lack of business travelers.
Southwest Airlines’ Traffic Rose Last Month
New York Times - Fri Dec 4, 9:50 pm ET
November traffic rose 11.7 percent over the same month last year, when the recession and shock waves in the financial industry hurt business travel.