 | //17-10-2008 Amid the financial tumult, one significant development for airlines has been largely lost in the chatter and fear. Lower fuel prices present an enormous opportunity to level the competitive playing field. |
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 | //17-10-2008 Half of India's airlines could disappear during the current downturn, Air India boss Raghu Menon has told BBC News. |
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| //13-10-2008 The Bush administration escalated a bitter fight with airlines on Thursday by pushing ahead with a plan to auction takeoff and landing rights at New York-area airports despite key congressional opposition and an industry threat to block the initiative in court.
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 | //13-10-2008 "There are a lot of job losses (in finance) and that tends to translate into a lot less travel, not to mention that companies are cutting back on their ... |
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| //13-10-2008 Airline failures, the credit crunch and a dismal airport experience have caused a sharp fall in the number of fliers from the UK. Martin Hickman reports |
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| //13-10-2008 Airline failures, the credit crunch and a dismal airport experience have caused a sharp fall in the number of fliers from the UK. Martin Hickman reports |
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| //09-10-2008 AMR Corp.'s American Airlines, the world's largest carrier, said it planned to block pornography on its Internet service during flights, complying with requests from employees and customers.
The carrier is working with Aircell on a filtering technology, American said. Flight attendants said last month that they were urging American to take the action. |
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| //09-10-2008 From next month Aer Lingus customers will be able to use American routes and networks under a new agreement with United Airlines.
Aer Lingus and the American carrier have begun a code-sharing agreement, enabling Aer Lingus customers access to United Airlines’ network in North America from November 1.
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| //08-10-2008 American Airlines flight attendants, who are negotiating a new contract with American management, will be handing out pillows Friday at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, New York LaGuardia, Miami and Los Angeles to draw passenger attention to their efforts. |
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 | //03-10-2008 ROME: Lobbying by Italian unions and politicians appears to be tipping the scales toward Lufthansa and hobbling Air France-KLM in the battle for a slice of Alitalia, which narrowly escaped liquidation last week. |
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| //02-10-2008 Portland International Airport and Virgin America are favorites among business fliers, according to the results of Conde Nast Traveler’s most recent poll of road warriors — published in the magazine’s October issue. |
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 | //02-10-2008 Southwest Airlines, long coveted by Minnesota travelers, will begin flying out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport's Humphrey terminal in March. |
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| //02-10-2008 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A Delta Air Lines executive says the airline will begin shifting planes around within months of its buyout of Northwest Airlines.
The two fleets will operate separately until the federal government signs off on a joint operating certificate, which could take much of next year
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 | //24-09-2008 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cash-strapped airlines are more aggressively cutting corporate discounts or pulling contracts entirely if businesses fall short of their air travel commitments, business travel executives said on Tuesday. |
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| //24-09-2008 JP Morgan tallied up all the U.S. aircraft on their way to the desert, to Russia or the Third World this fall, and it¡¯s a rather staggering number. All told, U.S. airlines are grounding 512 airplanes. That happens to be the same number of passenger jets in Northwest Airlines Corp.¡¯s entire fleet |
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