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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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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.
Executives make their case for private jets
MSNBC - Fri Dec 4, 5:07 pm ET
At the height of the recession, the private jet became the go-to symbol for corporate greed. Industry executives sound off on their battle to make solo business travel acceptable again.
Clooneypalooza: A Star Is Airborne
Time Magazine - Fri Dec 4, 3:54 pm ET
In a fall-film trifecta, Gorgeous George goes off to war, into a foxhole and (best of all) up in the air
Big-spending frequent fliers get pampered super-elite status
Asbury Park Press - Fri Dec 4, 3:33 pm ET
When George Clooney tries to earn romantic points with a fellow frequent flier in the movie Up in the Air, which opens Friday in limited release, he scores big by flashing a black card that signals membership in American Airlines' 2-year-old, invitation-only ConciergeKey recognition program.
'Up in the Air' and Down to Earth
consortiumnews.com - Fri Dec 4, 12:54 pm ET
If there’s one film I’d like President Obama to see this month, it’s the new film by Jason Reitman “Up in the Air.” Seeing all those people laid off in the course of the film made me want to run out and start a jobs program.