AIRLINES.Ranked by 2000 passengers carried at L.A. County airports EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County's three commercial airports served a record 72.7 million passengers last year, a 4.5 percent increase from 1999. Nearly 93 percent of those passengers flew in and out of LAX, which processed 67.3 million flights, compared with Burbank Burbank, city (1990 pop. 93,643), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1911. Tourism and the entertainment industry are central to its economy; several motion-picture studios and television headquarters are here. Burbank's aerospace industry collapsed with the end of the Cold War. Airport's 4.7 million and Long Beach Airport's 700,000. The economic downturn Downturn The transition point between a rising, expanding economy to a falling, contracting one. downturn A decline in security prices or economic activity following a period of rising or stable prices or activity. is expected to flatten flatten - To remove structural information, especially to filter something with an implicit tree structure into a simple sequence of leaves; also tends to imply mapping to flat ASCII. "This code flattens an expression with parentheses into an equivalent canonical form." airport use this year. LAX, for instance, had 32.7 million passengers from January January: see month. through June June: see month. , down slightly from 32.9 million during the same period last year. But LAX remains more than 50 percent over its official annual capacity of 40 million passengers. The airport saw a 4.5 percent increase over its 64.3 million passengers in 1999. Los Angeles World Airports' LAX Master Plan calls for the addition of a giant terminal to increase capacity to 89 million passengers annually. Meanwhile, anti-expansion groups are pushing the airlines to consider initiating or increasing flights to outlying out·ly·ing adj. Relatively distant or remote from a center or middle: outlying regions. outlying Adjective far away from the main area Adj. 1. airports. David Greenberg The creator of this article, or someone who has substantially contributed to it, may have a conflict of interest regarding its subject matter. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. THE PACESETTER UNITED AIRLINES ALTHOUGH scheduling problems caused United Airlines' market share in L.A. County to fall to 20.7 percent last year from 22.1 percent in 1999, the airline giant continued its reign A reign is a period of time a person serves as a monarch or pope. No time limit exists on reigns, nor is there a term of office. Thus a reign usually lasts for the remainder of the monarch's life, unless the monarchy itself is abolished or the monarch abdicates. as the area's largest carrier. United's passenger logs increased to 15.9 million people from 15.3 million during the period. Following the same pattern, No. 2 carrier Southwest Airlines This article is about the American airline. For the former Japanese airline, see Japan Transocean Air. For the British airline, see Air Southwest. Southwest Airlines Co. saw passengers increase to 11 million last year from 10.7 million, while watching its market share drop to 14.4 percent from 15.4 percent during the same period. American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the , the No. 3 local carrier, grabbed the largest jump in market share, to 10.6 percent last year from 9.2 percent in 1999, as its number of passengers increased to 8.1 million from 6.4 million. United, which has a hub in L.A., canceled hundreds of local flights and 20,000 nationwide last year after its 10,000 pilots refused to take additional flight assignments -- forgoing for·go also fore·go tr.v. for·went , for·gone , for·go·ing, for·goes To abstain from; relinquish: unwilling to forgo dessert. overtime Overtime is the amount of time someone works beyond normal working hours. Normal hours may be determined in several ways:
The company is currently a year-and-a-half into negotiations with its 45,000 workers belonging to the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers, whose contract expired ex·pire v. ex·pired, ex·pir·ing, ex·pires v.intr. 1. To come to an end; terminate: My membership in the club has expired. 2. July July: see month. 12, 2000. "Certainly our goal is to reach a contract with both groups of employees with no disruption disruption /dis·rup·tion/ (dis-rup´shun) a morphologic defect resulting from the extrinsic breakdown of, or interference with, a developmental process. in service," said Joseph Hopkins Hopkins, city (1990 pop. 16,534), Hennepin co., SE Minn., a suburb of Minneapolis; inc. as West Minneapolis 1893, name changed 1928. The city manufactures machinery, computer and electronic parts, steel products, air pollution equipment, ophthalmic lenses, tools, , a spokesman for United. Even if both sides reach an agreement, the slowing economy has forced United to eliminate about 1 percent of its flights nationwide beginning this fall and lasting all of next year. David Greenberg
Rank Airline (Ranking in 2000) Passengers 1 Market Share
* address * 2000 * 2000
* 1999 * 1999
1 United Airlines (1) 15,914,443 20.6%
2255E. 220th St. 15,298,304 22.1%
Long Beach 90810
2 Southwest Airlines (2) 11,023,066 14.3
5777 W. Century Blvd., Suite 1190 10,671,092 15.4
Los Angeles 90045
3 American Airlines (3) 8,303,867 10.8
222 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 2100 6,372,915 9.2
El Segundo 90245
4 Delta Airlines (4) 5,232,810 6.8
6150 W. Century Blvd. 5,369,805 7.8
Los Angeles 90045
5 Alaska Airlines (5) 2,646,091 3.4
6033 W. Century Blvd., Suite 985 2,657,129 3.8
Los Angeles 90045
6 Northwest Airlines (6) 2,645,303 3.4
11101 Aviation Blvd. Suite 200 2,527,444 3.7
Los Angeles 90045
7 America West Airlines (9) 1,915,576 2.5
100 World Way 1,965,722 2.8
Los Angeles 90045
8 Continental Airlines (8) 1,891,056 2.5
600 World Way West 2,083,028 3.0
Los Angeles 90045
9 Skywest (7) 1,865,016 2.4
600 World Way 2,139,918 3.1
Los Angeles 90045
10 US Airways (10) 1,466,819 1.9
65 Pine Ave., Suite 340 1,374,831 2.0
Long Beach 90802
11 Mexicana Airlines (12) 1,214,447 1.6
9841 Airport Blvd., Suite 220 1,050,505 1.5
Los Angeles 90045
12 Trans World Airlines (11) 1,118,740 1.5
350 World Way, Suite 407 1,075,466 1.6
Los Angeles 90045
13 American Eagle (13) 1,053,266 1.4
720 Aero Vista Place, Suite D 960,422 1.4
San Luis Obispo 93401
14 Air New Zealand (15) 1,033,666 1.3
1960 E. Grand Ave., Suite 900 948,696 1.4
El Segundo 90245
15 Hawaiian Air (16) 986,220 1.3
6033 W. Century Blvd., Suite 810 890,728 1.3
Los Angeles 90045
Rank Stock Ticker Stock Performance Headquarters
* Aug. 31, 2001 price
* Aug. 31, 2000 price
* percent change
1 UAL $32.7 Chicago
$47.8
-31.7%
2 LUV 17.9 Dallas
22.6
-20.8
3 AMR 31.9 Dallas
32.8
-2.7
4 DAL 38.6 Atlanta
49.5
-22.0
5 ALK 32.6 Seattle
26.0
25.4
6 NWAC 21.1 Minneapolis
31.3
-32.6
7 AWA 9.5 Phoenix
14.6
-35.2
8 CAL 43.6 Houston
48.1
-9.4
9 SKYW 31.8 St. George, Utah
49.7
-36.0
10 UAL 32.7 Washington D.C.
47.8
-31.6
11 Mexican Stock NA Mexico City
Exchange NA
NA
12 AMR 2 -95.2 3 St. Louis
13 AMR 31.9 Dallas
32.8
-2.7
14 ANZBF 0.5 Auckland, New
0.7 4 Zealand
-25.0
15 HA 3.0 Honolulu
2.5
20.0
Rank Phone Number Top Local Executive
* Web site * name
* title
* phone
1 (800) 241-6522 Jill Sheffield
ual.com managing director So. Calif.
(310) 513-2213
2 (800) 435-9792 Anastasia Albanese-O'Neil
southwest.com district marketing manager
(310) 215-5829
3 (800) 433-7300 Rosilyn Richey
aa.com regional sales manager
(310) 648-6431
4 (800) 221-1212 Tom McFadden
delta.com district director of sales
(310) 216-2200
5 (800) 252-7522 LaRue Sume
alaskaairlines.com district sales manager
(310) 337-9512
6 (800) 225-2525 Fred Arnold
nwa.com district director of sales
(310) 646-0766
7 (800) 235-9292 Denise Anderson
americawest.com general manager
(310) 348-7901
8 (800) 772-6000 Jay Wedding
continental.com director, airport services
(310) 568-3100
9 (800) 241-6522 Terry Bais
skywest.com general manager
(310) 646-0096
10 (800) 428-4322 Steve Able
usairways.com station manager
(310) 646-0093
11 (800) 531-7921 Linda Mansell
mexicana.com vice president; West Coast
(310) 646-0401
12 (800) 221-2000 Dale Faulstich
twa.com station manager
(310) 646-3440
13 (800) 433-7300 Larry Terrazas
aa.com vice president, L.A. hub
(805) 541-1010
14 (800) 262-1234 John Peterson
airnz.co.nz sales manager, West Coast
(310) 648-7000
15 (800) 367-5320 Janet Y. Brown
hawaiianair.com sr. dir., N. America sales
(310) 215-1866
16 Qantas Airlines (20) 937,848 1.2%
841 Apollo St., Suite 400 702,804 1.0%
El Segundo 90245
17 Korean Airlines (17) 821,145 1.1
6101 W. Imperial Highway 831,296 1.2
Los Angeles 90045
18 American Trans Air (18) 819,068 1.1
200 World Way West, terminal 2 790,177 1.1
Los Angeles 90045
19 Air Canada(22) 781,362 1.0
5761 W. Imperial Highway, second floor 556,222 0.8
Los Angeles 90045
20 Japan Airlines(19) 696,944 0.9
300 Continental Blvd., Suite 402 721,581 1.0
El Segundo 90245
21 Aeromexico (23) 674,909 0.9
222 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 1780 515,005 0.7
El Segundo 90245
22 British Airlines (21) 580,002 0.8
75-20 Astoria Blvd. 575,544 0.8
Jackson Heights, N.Y. 11370
23 National Airlines 442,230 0.6
6020 Spenser St. 95,493 0.1
Las Vegas 89119
24 Lufthansa German Airlines 436,389 0.6
5230 Pacific Concourse Drive 389,429 0.6
Los Angeles 90045
25 China Airlines (25) 422,674 0.5
6053 W. Century Blvd., Suite 800 409,422 0.6
Los Angeles 90045
16 QAN 5 $2.7 Sydney, Australia (800) 227-4500
$3.7 qantas.com.au
-27.6%
17 Korean Stock NA Seoul, Korea (800) 438-5000
Exchange NA koreanair.com
NA
18 AMTR 22.3 Indianapolis (800) 435-9282
11.2 ata.com
99.3
19 ACNAF 3.3 Montreal (800) 776-3000
11.0 aircanada.ca
-70.0
20 JAPNY 5.9 Tokyo (800) 525-3663
7.1 jal.co.jp
-16.9
21 Mexican Stock NA Houston (800) 237-6639
Exchange NA cintra.com.mx
NA
22 BAB 44.7 London (800) 247-9297
47.1 british-airways.com
-5.1
23 private NA Las Vegas (888) 757-5387
NA nationalairlines.com
NA
24 DLAKY 15.8 Germany (800) 645-3880
22.2 lufthansa.com
-28.8
25 Taiwan Stock NA Taipei, Taiwan (800) 227-5118
Exchange NA china-airlines.com
NA
16 Walley Mariani
sr. exec. v.p. of Americas
(310) 726-1400
17 Jun Jip Choi
sr. v.p., N. America
(310) 417-5000
18 Jack O'Brien
v.p. sales, West region
(510) 635-5866
19 Patrick Kahoury
sr. director of sales, USA
(800) 366-0361
20 Tetsu Ohmor
v.p., regional manager
(310) 607-2330
21 Rolf Hoehn
vice president, USA
(310) 646-0317
22 David Noyes
exec. v.p. sales/marketing, N. America
(718) 397-4000
23 Ron Stevens
regional sales manager, West
(702) 944-2800
24 Maria Soler
station manager
(310) 646-3944
25 Phillip Wei
vice president of Americas
(310) 641-8888
(1)At Los Angeles International Airport, Burbank Airport
and Long Beach Airport.
(2)TWA has been acquired by American Airlines' parent
AMR Corp., court approval on March 12, 2001.
(3)Stock performance prior to the acquisition, provided
by Big Charts.
(4)Began trading June 19, 2001, price as of that day.
(5)Trades on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Note: The passenger and market state information in this
list was supplied by the City of Los Angeles Department
of Airports, the Long Beach Airport and the Burbank-Glendale
Airport Authority. Other information was supplied by
representatives of the airlines themselves. Airlines are
ranked by the total number of enplaned and deplaned
passengers carried in 2000 at LAX, Burbank and Long Beach
airports, the three L.A. County airports featuring commercial
passenger lines. The list was completed during the week of
August 24, 2001.
To the best of our knowledge, this information is accurate
as of press time. While every effort is made to ensure the
accuracy and thoroughness of the list, omissions and
typographical errors sometimes occur. Please send corrections
or additions on company letterhead to the Research Department,
Los Angeles Business Journal, 5700 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 170,
Los Angeles 90036. [C]2001 Los Angeles Business Journal. This
list may not be reprinted in whole or in part without prior
written permission from from the editor. Reprints are available
from Wright's Reprints, (800) 494-9051.
THE TRENDS
TURBULENCE
Stock price for United Airlines.
Sept. 4, 2000 $48.00
Sept. 4, 2001 $32.10
Note: Table made from line graph
[Graph graph, figure that shows relationships between quantities. The graph of a function y=f (x) is the set of points with coordinates [x, f (x)] in the xy-plane, when x and y are numbers. omitted] |
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