Archive for April, 2009
JetBlue announced plans to expand its focus city at Boston’s Logan International Airport with four daily flights to Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) on Sept. 9, 2009.
Prices between BWI and Boston start at $39 each way for flights purchased before May 4, 2009.
Other upcoming new routes from Boston include nonstop service to San Francisco International Airport (begins May 1), Los Angeles International Airport (begins June 17) and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (begins June 19).
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April 23 (Bloomberg) — US Airways Group Inc., the smallest of the U.S. full-fare airlines, will charge a $5 fee to passengers who don’t prepay online when they check luggage.
The new fee is an effort to speed up passenger check-in at airports, Chief Executive Officer Doug Parker said today. The Tempe, Arizona-based carrier began charging $15 to check one bag and $25 for a second last year. Payments through US Airways’ Web site can be made today for flights starting July 9, Morgan Durrant, a spokesman, said in an interview. Read the rest of this entry »
Under pressure from safety investigators, the US Federal Aviation Administration will open its database on incidents of planes hitting birds to the public beginning on Friday.
The FAA said late on Wednesday it had dropped its objection after a month-long review determined that releasing the information would not jeopardize safety by discouraging airlines and airports from reporting bird strikes. Read the rest of this entry »
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, April 22, 2009 – Antigua-based regional airline, LIAT, is looking for a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), following the departure of Mark Darby – the man who held the position for the past three years.
LIAT yesterday announced “the conclusion of the Company’s contractual relationship” with Darby in a brief pres statement that did not indicate whether the decision not to renew Darby’s contract was made by him, the airline, or if it was a mutual decision. Read the rest of this entry »
In the past week, the largest US airlines have reported staggering losses and a sharp downturn in traffic during the first quarter. But some airline executives think the worst might be over.
No airline chieftain was bold enough to say a recovery in travel has started. But executives at Delta, American and Continental all suggested — with an unmistakable air of hope — that at least traffic levels aren’t collapsing the way they did earlier this year. Read the rest of this entry »
Mayor Daley is urging President Obama to bail out an airline industry that has “weathered one extraordinary challenge after another” since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
In an April 10 letter to the president, Daley referred to the “precarious state of our nation’s airports and airlines” and argued that the airline industry is every bit as deserving of a federal bailout as the banking, insurance and auto industries. Read the rest of this entry »
A radical cut-back in airline spending has forced Boeing to lose more aircraft orders than it gained during the quarter of this year.
Unveiling its first quarter results, the Seattle-based aerospace giant said that it received bookings for 28 aircraft but lost 32. Profits during the period halved to $610 million from $1.2 billion in the same period last year. Read the rest of this entry »
AirTran posted a first-quarter profit on Wednesday, reversing a year-earlier loss, as it cut operating costs and filled a greater percentage of seats after curbing capacity.
The parent of AirTran Airways reiterated that it expects to be profitable each quarter this year. Read the rest of this entry »
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol must lower tariffs that took effect April 1 by €3.5 million ($4.5 million), Dutch competition authority NMa ruled yesterday.
Schiphol Group incorrectly passed several nonaviation costs–including the costs of building a sound barrier around one runway, of training baggage handling employees and of an accountancy control–to airlines when setting landing and handling fees, NMa said. Read the rest of this entry »
U.S. airlines cut 27,500 jobs in the year that ended in February, a 6.6 percent drop, the U.S. Department of Transportation said Tuesday.
Passenger airlines employed 391,682 U.S. workers in February compared with 419,200 during the same month in 2008, the agency’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics said in a release. Airline employment, however, is up by 100 jobs nationwide since January 2000. Read the rest of this entry »