 | //13-02-2009 The kind of Continental aircraft that crashed outside Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday night has a generally good safety record, although a series of crashes in 2007 led one major airline to abandon it for other kinds of aircraft. |
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Whitney Eichinger, a Southwest Airlines spokeswoman, said the plane with 121 on board -- 116 passengers and 5 crew members -- was a Boeing 737 scheduled to fly nonstop from McCarran International Airport to Long Island MacArthur Airport.
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| //12-02-2009 Richard Branson’s Virgin Group enters industries that aren’t well-run and need to be “shaken up,” and the U.S. airline business is one of them, according to the billionaire adventurer. |
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| //12-02-2009 The world's biggest airline operator, Delta Air Lines, plans to consolidate some functions of the three regional feeder carriers it owns. Delta spokesman Anthony Black says the plan is expected to be fully operational by the third quarter and could result in a net reduction of a "handful'' of jobs. |
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 | //11-02-2009 Chicago (IL) - Today, Southwest airlines announced they will be expanding their current free in-flight Internet test to four aircraft, which will last "a few months". Passengers will be able log on using their notebook, smart phone or other Wi-Fi enabled device for the duration of the flight free of charge |
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| //24-01-2009 Following its merger with Northwest Airlines in October 2008, Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL: News ), announced Friday that it is working with 3M Co. (MMM: News ) to establish Delta brand across more than 200 airports worldwide, including ten airports in Minnesota. The company is in the process of re-branding Northwest Airlines to Delta Airlines.
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| //24-01-2009 Russia's state-owned Vnesheconombank will take over Hungarian national airline Malev and operate the airline in partnership with Russia's Aeroflot, Hungary's Finance Minister Janos Veres announced at a press conference held jointly with Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov on Saturday.
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| //20-01-2009 PARIS (Dow Jones)--Franco-Dutch airline Air France-KLM (3112.FR) Tuesday said that due to the deteriorating economic environment, its operating income in the fiscal third quarter ... |
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| //20-01-2009 NEW YORK (AP) — U.S Airways has sent $5,000 checks to each of the 150 passengers on Flight 1549 to compensate them for lost luggage and other belongings.
That was the flight that crash-landed in the Hudson River last week after losing power simultaneously in both engines shortly after takeoff. All 155 people aboard survived.
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| //20-01-2009 WASHINGTON — Pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger has garnered most of the headlines for safely piloting a crippled jet onto the Hudson River, but investigators and aviation workers say there is an unsung group that also deserves praise: the three flight attendants on board. |
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| //20-01-2009 Shanghai Airlines said its losses for 2008 could exceed 870 million yuan ($127.19 million), more than double that in the previous year. |
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| //19-01-2009 WASHINGTON — Pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger has garnered most of the headlines for safely piloting a crippled jet onto the Hudson River, but investigators and aviation workers say there is an unsung group that also deserves praise: the three flight attendants on board. |
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 | //16-01-2009 NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The number of people flying on U.S. airline fell 7.1% for October form a year ago to 59.6 million, the eight consecutive monthly decline, the Department of Transportation said Thursday |
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 | //16-01-2009 ATLANTA: Delta Air Lines Inc., the world's biggest carrier, expects about 2,000 employees to accept the company's latest round of severance offers that were made due to its plans to reduce systemwide capacity in 2009 by 6 percent to 8 percent. |
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