Airline News - North America.For more airline news, data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm Aug 28, 2006 Airlines expected to add capacity this fall. Airlines will boost domestic capacity by nearly 2% this November over November 2005, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a USA TODAY USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. analysis. Air Transport Association Chief Economist The Chief Economist is a single position job class having primary responsibility for the development, coordination, and production of economic and financial analysis. It is distinguished from the other economist positions by the broader scope of responsibility encompassing the John Heimlich says strong demand and revenue gains have made some airlines "bullish" about capacity. Aug 27, 2006 Airlines sell advertising space to increase revenue. Airlines are selling advertising space on tray tables, napkins and air sickness air sickness A permutation of motion sickness, which occurs during ascent and/or descent in an airplane. See Airline food. bags as another source of revenue. "Fuel prices are so high," AirTran Airways AirTran Airways is a low-cost airline that is a Delaware corporation with headquarters in Orlando, Florida, USA and is a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings. AirTran operates over 750 daily flights throughout the eastern USA and the Midwest, including over 270 daily departures from Marketing Chief Tad Hutcheson says. "We needed new streams of revenue and found that we have been able to sell things onboard the airplane." Aug 27, 2006 Tardy tar·dy adj. tar·di·er, tar·di·est 1. Occurring, arriving, acting, or done after the scheduled, expected, or usual time; late. 2. Moving slowly; sluggish. travelers face fees, higher fares. Travelers arriving late for their flights may face hundreds of dollars in additional costs, The Wall Street Journal's Scott McCartney Scott McCartney is The Wall Street Journal's travel editor, as well as a regular columnist for the newspaper. Background McCartney currently lives in Dallas, though he is a native of Boston. He attended Duke University and graduated in 1982 with an A.B. writes. Some carriers will let late travelers fly standby, but fliers could be charged a higher fare and change fees if the next flight isn't available until the next day. Aug 27, 2006 Travelers pack planes despite higher prices. Higher ticket prices are not deterring travelers from flying this summer, industry observers say. Fares are up more than 10% so far this year, but the Air Transport Association expects a record 207 million travelers to fly this summer. Aug 27, 2006 Travelers question carriers' policies on late arrivals. Some airlines charge travelers who miss their flights fees for rebooking, but travelers complain that they sometimes absorb costs for the airlines' operational problems, The Wall Street Journal's Scott McCartney writes. He notes that higher fares and fees for late travelers "seems more like a disincentive to ever use that airline again, rather than a disincentive to miss flights." Aug 27, 2006 Travelers report summer snafus. Some travelers have experienced long delays and security problems at airports during the busy summer travel season, Finding misery loves company, some form friendships with other fliers during the hours spent in the airport. Aug 27, 2006 Which is the biggest airline?. How big an airline is depends on how you measure it, The Wall Street Journal's Scott McCartney writes. He notes that the standard measure of airline size is passenger traffic, which is measured in revenue-passenger miles. By that measure, 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 is the largest U.S. airline, followed by United Airlines. However, Delta Air Lines believes the best measure of an airline's size is the number of destinations it offers. Aug 27, 2006 Number of lost bags highest in 16 years. Airlines are reporting the largest number of lost bags in 16 years. In 2005, airlines reported 6.04 reports per 1,000 bags. An Air Transport Association spokesman says the higher rates were the result of bad weather and the high number of flights routed through the aging air traffic control system. Aug 24, 2006 Airlines back off fare increase. Three large airlines have rescinded a fare increase on U.S. business and first-class fares. Other large carriers did not match the fare increase. Some analysts expect carriers to make another attempt to raise prices in the coming weeks. Aug 22, 2006 Air Canada Air Canada is to introduce nonstop flights on the hitherto dormant Edmonton - Heathrow route. By next summer, Air Canada will offer up to 15 daily nonstop flights to London from eight cities across Canada: Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax and St. John's. Air Canada's Edmonton - London flights will operate three times weekly starting 31 October 2006 on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, ramping up to daily service beginning 1 April 2007. The airline will fly a 212-seat Boeing 767-300ER aircraft offering a choice of Executive First and economy service. The Boeing 767 fleet is being refurbished to feature Air Canada's new personal entertainment system with 8.9-inch wide digital in-seat monitors and touchscreen controls offering audio and video on demand programming at every seat plus lie-flat beds in the premium class. Aug 26, 2006 Air Canada Air Canada Jazz Jazz Air LP (Air Canada Jazz) is a Canadian regional airline based in the Halifax Regional Municipality, at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Enfield, Nova Scotia. is now operating a daily, nonstop between Salt Lake City International and Toronto Lester B. Pearson International. The year-round run is flown with the 75-passenger CRY-705 with 10 in executive class and 65 in economy. Aug 25, 2006 Air Canada Air Canada will launch thrice-weekly Edmonton-London Heathrow service Oct. 31, increasing to daily from April 1, 2007, using a 767-300ER. Aug 22, 2006 Air Midwest Air Midwest will start twice-daily weekday and daily weekend US Airways Express US Airways Express is an airline brand name, rather than a fully certificated airline, and as such, the US Airways Express name is used by several individually owned airlines or airline holding companies which provide regional airline and commuter service for US Airways. service from Columbia, Mo., to St. Louis and Kansas City from Oct. 5. Aug 24, 2006 Alaska Airlines Alaska Airlines continues with its expansion to points south of the border. Next up starting October 30 will be a year-round service between LAX and La Paz, Mexico. Flights will operate three days a week using the 737-400 with two-class configuration - 12 in first, 133 in economy. Also to start that same time with details yet to come is a service between SFO SFO (in Britain) Serious Fraud Office and Cancun, Mexico. Aug 25, 2006 Alaska Airlines Alaska Airlines extended its Northern Bites $5 meal option, currently available on Mexican services, to nearly all flights longer than 3 hr. Aug 22, 2006 Alaska Airlines Alaska Airlines will begin San Francisco-San Diego service with four daily weekday flights and a reduced weekend schedule on Oct. 29. It also will add nine weekly flights from Los Angeles and SFO to Mexican resort destinations for its winter timetable. Aug 22, 2006 American Airlines American Airlines Trans-Atlantic Jet Diverted. An American Airlines flight carrying 179 people from Manchester, UK, to Chicago was diverted to Bangor, Maine, on Friday because of security concerns, the airline said. The US Transportation Security Administration said it learned of "a reported threat to the aircraft while it was en route." The FBI said the plane landed in Bangor at 12:45 p.m. ET (1645 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) See UTC. GMT - Universal Time 1 ). Richard Hedges, an American Airlines spokesman in London, said: "I can confirm AA flight 55 from Manchester to Chicago (was) diverted into Bangor, Maine, due to a possible security concern." Aug 25, 2006 American Airlines American Airlines launched a website, www.flytochinaonaa.com, on which passengers and businesses can learn about and register support for the carrier's application to operate nonstop service between Dallas/Fort Worth and Beijing beginning in March. Following Northwest Airlines' announcement last week that it applied to operate Detroit-Shanghai service, there now are four carriers competing for the award of one transpacific trans·pa·cif·ic adj. 1. Situated on or coming from the other side of the Pacific Ocean. 2. Spanning or crossing the Pacific Ocean. route. "People and businesses in the southern and southwestern United States deserve the opportunity for a daily nonstop or one-stop route to China that has not been readily available to them in the past," AA Senior VP-Government Affairs Will Ris said. Chicago O'Hare, Newark and San Francisco are the three current US gateways to China. Aug 22, 2006 Delta Air Lines Delta Air Lines is delving deeper into the Caribbean. Latest evidence: new nonstop service from JFK to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Daily MD-88 flights take wing September 9. Aug 25, 2006 Delta Air Lines Delta Air Lines said it is using a new decision support tool called Attila that allows it to manage landings in Atlanta better during congested con·gest·ed adj. Affected with or characterized by congestion. congested ENT adjective Referring to a boggy blood-filled tissue. See Nasal congestion. periods. The program sends information from Delta's operations control center to cockpits to provide pilots with coordinated speed adjustments so landings are more evenly spaced. Aug 25, 2006 Delta Air Lines Delta's new nonstops out of Atlanta down to Santiago de Los Caballeros Santiago de los Caballeros (säntyä`gō dā lōs käbäyā`rōs), city (1993 pop. 364,859), N Dominican Republic, on the Yaque del Norte River. starts December 9, Dominican Republic; and Port of Spain Port of Spain, city (1990 pop. 50,878), capital of Trinidad and Tobago, on the Gulf of Paria. It is the industrial and commercial center of the country. From 1958 to 1962, Port of Spain was the capital of the dissolved Federation of the West Indies; in 2005 it became , Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (trĭn`ĭdăd, təbā`gō), officially Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, republic (2005 est. pop. 1,088,000), 1,980 sq mi (5,129 sq km), West Indies. The capital is Port of Spain. . While both runs are via 737-800, Santiago service is daily and Port of Spain operates four times a week. Aug 25, 2006 Delta Air Lines Delta Air Lines has made the self-service booking, check-in, loyalty program and shopping functions on its website available in Spanish. It added that it will introduce Spanish and French check-in kiosks early next year. Aug 24, 2006 Delta Air Lines Delta Air Lines will launch twice-daily Atlanta-Jacksonville service from Dec. 11 operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines For the defunct low-fare airline, see . Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) is a fully certificated American airline based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA flying to 144 destinations as a Delta Connection carrier. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of SkyWest, Inc. . Aug 24, 2006 Delta Air Lines Delta Air Lines and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) this week signed a seven-year agreement under which the carrier's IT infrastructure management will be outsourced to IBM. Aug 23, 2006 Delta Air Lines Delta Air Lines issues RFP (Request For Proposal) A document that invites a vendor to submit a bid for hardware, software and/or services. It may provide a general or very detailed specification of the system. 1. (business) RFP - Request for Proposal. 2. for Regional flying in ongoing effort to cut costs. Delta issued an RFP for a portion of its Regional jet service--that currently operated by Delta Connection partners Comair, Chautauqua Airlines, Shuttle America and Freedom Airlines--as part of the restructuring of its network under bankruptcy proceedings bankruptcy proceedings n. the bankruptcy procedure is: a) filing a petition (voluntary or involuntary) to declare a debtor person or business bankrupt, or, under Chapter 11 or 13, to allow reorganization or refinancing under a plan to meet the debts of the party .Comair is a wholly owned Delta subsidiary, Chautauqua Chau`tau´qua 1. a meeting, usually held in the summer outdoors or under a temporary tent, providing public lectures combined with entertainment such as concerts and plays. It originated in the village of Chautauqua, N. Y. and Shuttle America are subsidiaries of Republic Airways and Freedom is a subsidiary of Mesa Air Group Mesa Air Group (NASDAQ: MESA) is a Nevada Corporation[1] commercial aviation holding company with headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. The company operates three regional airline subsidiaries: Mesa Airlines, Freedom Airlines, and Air Midwest, and five supporting . Flying done by SkyWest subsidiary Atlantic Southeast Airlines is not included in the bid. Aug 23, 2006 Delta Air Lines Delta Air Lines said Friday that new security regulations have resulted in an approximately 20% increase in checked baggage on the mainline and a "negligible increase" aboard Delta Shuttle. The carrier has increased staffing to handle the additional workload and said that baggage operations "have returned to normal." Aug 21, 2006 Eos Airlines Eos Airlines signed a deal to implement a suite of Sabre software solutions. Aug 25, 2006 Hawaiian Airlines, Harmony Airways Hawaiian Airlines and Harmony Airways of Vancouver announced a codeshare and interline in·ter·line 1 tr.v. in·ter·lined, in·ter·lin·ing, in·ter·lines To insert between printed or written lines. in e-ticketing agreement. Harmony operates four 757s and flies to Hawaii from YVR YVR Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Vancouver International (Airport Code) and Calgary year round and from Kelowna, Edmonton and Victoria seasonally. Aug 22, 2006 Northwest Airlines Northwest attendants may launch strike tonight. A flight attendants strike at Northwest Airlines could start as early as tonight if a federal judge decides not to block the job action. U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero will consider whether the workers can walk off the job after the airline changed their contract. Northwest has told travelers that it will fly its full schedule if the attendants strike and that it has a "range of contingency options" in place. Aug 25, 2006 Northwest Airlines Northwest Airlines and Air France, SkyTeam partners who were rebuffed by the US Dept. of Transportation as part of the alliance's bid for transatlantic antitrust immunity last December, opted to move forward with a codeshare agreement announced yesterday. Aug 22, 2006 Northwest Airlines Northwest Airlines applied for authority to operate a daily Detroit-Shanghai service beginning around March 25 aboard a 747-400. "Detroit to Shanghai nonstop service is Northwest's top international route priority. Our 122-gate WorldGateway at Detroit terminal complex is perfectly situated to serve as an efficient gateway to China and is the only major hub that can easily offer competitive service to existing nonstop service from Chicago O'Hare," Executive VP Phil Haan said. American Airlines, Continental Airlines and United Airlines also have applied to serve China daily starting next year. Aug 21, 2006 Northwest Airlines, Air France Northwest Airlines will place its code on Air France's six weekly Paris Charles de Gaulle-Detroit flights and AF will do likewise on NWA's daily service. In the fall, the agreement will be expanded to include AF connections into Europe, Africa and the Middle East and NWA NWA Northwest Airlines (ICAO code) NWA Northwest Arkansas NWA National Wrestling Alliance NWA National Weather Association NWA National Works Agency (Jamaica) NWA Network Analyzer flights from Detroit throughout the US. Passengers will have access to each airline's loyalty programs and to the carriers' respective lounges at CDG (CDMA Development Group, Costa Mesa, CA, www.cdg.org) A membership organization founded in 1995 that promotes CDMA wireless systems worldwide. It is involved with developing new features and services and promoting standards that provide global compatibility and interoperability. and DTW DTW Dynamic Time Warping DTW Dance Theatre Workshop (New York, NY) DTW Depth to Water (denotes depth to water in monitoring wells) DTW DoDIIS Trusted Workstation DTW Development Technology Workshop . Aug 22, 2006 United Airlines United Airlines's Sean Donohue is on the move again. Parent UAL UAL United Airlines (ICAO code) UAL Unified Accelerator Library (Brookhaven National Laboratory) UAL User Account Lockdown UAL User Access Layer UAL Universal Auxiliary Language UAL User Agent Layer Corp. announced yesterday that he will take on a newly created role as senior VP-Flight Operations and Onboard Service divisions. He was VP-operational services for United Express and Ted as recently as April. Since then he has been VP-customer experience, also a newly created position, and senior VP-onboard service. Hank Krakowski, who previously served as VP-corporate safety, security and quality assurance, is the new VP-flight operations and Charlie Ahmes is the new VP-onboard service. He previously was MD-onboard service operations. Aug 23, 2006 US Airways US Airways to launch new fare classes Sept. 1. US Airways will take the first step toward consolidating its reservation system with America West Airlines America West Airlines was one of the United States' ten major airlines. The airline was based in Tempe, Arizona, and is now a part of US Airways Group. At the time of its integration into US Airways, the airline maintained two hubs, one at Phoenix Sky Harbor International , publishing new fare classes on Sept. 1. The new classes affect travel beginning Sept. 20. Aug 24, 2006 US Airways US Airways pilots want wage increase, plan to picket. The US Airways pilots union is negotiating a new contract to cover all the airline's pilots. The pilots say the airline, the result of the merger of US Airways and America West, can afford to pay higher wages, and they plan to picket in Philadelphia on Tuesday. A US Airways spokeswoman says the carrier cannot increase costs and stay competitive. Aug 21, 2006 WestJet WestJet will operate seasonal thrice-weekly Toronto-Nassau service Nov. 5-April 26. Aug 24, 2006 |
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