Airline News - North America.Jan 28, 2008 ASTA has filed consumer-friendly comments with the Department of Transportation (DOT) to update the 20-year old DOT rules on how airlines compensate passengers denied boarding. ASTA wants the airlines to double the compensation for involuntarily bumped passengers. "ASTA's recommendations, if implemented, would reduce the number of instances in which airline passengers are involuntarily bumped and, in the event that an airline is forced to bump a passenger, create a more stable and acceptable process for doing so," said Cheryl Hudak, ASTA president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . ASTA wants better information on risks, evenhanded e·ven·hand·ed adj. Showing no partiality; fair. e  ven·hand pro-consumer
policies and cash payment instead of vouchers. Jan 23, 2008
Fares, hotel rates soar for Presidents Day weekend Some travelers are changing their plans to avoid high airfares and hotel rates during the Presidents Day weekend. The holiday, which falls on the third Monday in February, has become more popular for the travel industry, but lower prices still exist for travelers with flexible schedules. Jan 23, 2008 List of U.S. states considering passengers' rights legislation grows. Several states across the country have announced their intentions to implement laws that would require airlines to provide things such as food, water and working restrooms to passengers during lengthy tarmac delays. Now, some lawmakers in the state of Washington are making a push for a law to protect airline passengers' rights. Several carriers have already spoken out against the Washington legislation, saying that their customer service policies are adequate. Airlines and the Air Transport Association have spoken out against legislation in other states as well as a federal passenger rights bill, while arguing that only the federal government has the right to regulate the industry. Jan 23, 2008 Anyone flying at peak times around the Presidents Day weekend, Friday to Sunday or Monday, is likely to pay high fares. Though some airlines are running sales, the lowest fares are often scarce or unavailable on the holiday weekend. JetBlue Airways For the Jet Blue database used in Exchange Server and Active Directory, see Extensible Storage Engine. JetBlue Airways is a major American low-cost airline owned by JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ: JBLU). Corp. yesterday announced a four-day sale for flights in four major regions, including the Caribbean, but it cautioned in the fine print that the fares might not be available for trips between Feb. 12 and 28. Jan 22, 2008 Fuel costs have been especially significant this month, as U.S.airlines have been alternately raising and rolling back fuel surcharges. "Our fuel prices today are roughly 50% to 60% higher than a year ago this time," says Tim Smith Tim Smith is a common name. Notable people with the name Tim Smith include:
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 , which last week doubled its fuel surcharge to $40 round-trip, only to return it to $20 in order to remain competitive. Jan 22, 2008 Presidents Day isn't thought of as a major holiday in the U.S., but it has become big business for the travel industry, with the largest crowds at ski resorts and Caribbean destinations. In 2007, the long weekend around Presidents Day drew more bookings than Labor Day Labor Day, holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on the first Monday in September to honor the laborer. It was inaugurated by the Knights of Labor in 1882 and made a national holiday by the U.S. Congress in 1894. weekend for online travel agency Orbitz.com, making it the fifth-busiest holiday weekend of the year. Many schools close for the holiday or the whole week, prompting families to travel, and Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St. this year falls on the Thursday before the holiday, encouraging people to take a long weekend. This year, other factors are driving prices higher, too. Because of tight capacity, firm demand and rising fuel costs, airfares for February and March are 7% to 12% higher than they were a year earlier, says Rick Seaney, chief executive of FareCompare.com, which tracks ticket-price changes. "It's the trifecta tri·fec·ta n. A system of betting in which the bettor must pick the first three winners in the correct sequence. Also called triple. [tri- + (per)fecta.] ," he says. "The environment is ripe for an increase." Jan 22, 2008 US carriers retreat from $20 add-on. Delta Air Lines, US Airways Group US Airways Group Inc. NYSE: LCC is the Tempe, Arizona-based airline holding company that operates US Airways, US Airways Express and America West Airlines. It also operates additional companies that provide associated services. , 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.'s United Airlines and Continental Airlines also rolled back their surcharges to the old $20 level in prices that showed up in reservation systems Tuesday. The recent increases generally did not apply to routes also flown by low-cost carriers, which are generally more reluctant to boost fees. Most airline stocks fell along with the broader market Tuesday. Shares of American parent AMR Corp. fell 21 cents, or 1.7%, to $12.30. Jan 22, 2008 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. Air Canada Jazz launched a daily Ottawa-Montreal-St. John service aboard a 50-seat Bombardier DHC-8-300. It will operate a daily Vancouver-Yellowknife flight aboard a 50-seat Bombardier CRJ CRJ redirects here. For other meanings of CRJ see CRJ (disambiguation) The Bombardier CRJ (Canadair Regional Jet) is a family of regional airliners manufactured by Bombardier, and based on the Canadair Challenger business jet. until April 4 and will start daily Ottawa-Charlottetown service on May 1 aboard a 50-seat CRJ CRJ Canadair Regional Jet CRJ Chiropractic Research Journal CRJ Commission for Racial Justice CRJ Cylinder Reduction Jumper . Jan 27, 2008 Air Canada, Lufthansa Air Canada will launch daily Ottawa-Frankfurt service June 1 aboard a Boeing 767-300. Lufthansa will codeshare. AC will place its code on Lufthansa's six-times-weekly Toronto-Dusseldorf service scheduled to operate May 1 to October aboard an A340-300 and Lufthansa's second daily Calgary-Frankfurt flight launching April 14 aboard an A330-300. Air Canada also will transition its daily Montreal-Frankfurt to a Boeing 777-300ER from an A330-300 on April 1. Jan 27, 2008 Alaska Airlines Alaska Airlines, (NYSE: ALK) is an airline based in Seattle, Washington, United States. It operates hubs at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, and Portland International Airport. Alaska Air Group has tried raising ticket prices, but Chief Financial Officer Brad Tilden said Thursday the company has had mixed results. The Seattle-based carrier hiked prices as much as $20 in certain markets, but it wasn't able to push through any increases in others. Meanwhile, oil prices soared past $100 a barrel before dropping to about $88 a barrel. During the three-month period that ended Dec. 31, Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air said its earnings swung to a loss when adjusted for fuel and special items. Alaska Air Group shares dropped $2.11, or 9 percent, to $22.58. Jan 24, 2008 American Airlines American Airlines' new $3 billion "state-of-the-art" terminal at New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of JFK "is as hassle-free as you get for premium passengers," says Craig Kreeger, senior vice president international for American Airlines based in London. "If you're on the curb 30 minutes before departure and you're in first or business class, we guarantee you'll get on that plane." Jan 24, 2008 American Airlines Airlines' doubling of fuel surcharge fails to take hold. A doubling of the fuel surcharge tacked onto most tickets by American Airlines and other carriers appeared to flop Tuesday, the second straight unsuccessful effort by airlines to boost the fee. American last week raised its fuel surcharge to $40 from $20 for many round-trip flights, and over the weekend other carriers went along. But by Monday, Northwest Airlines Corp. had began a gradual retreat, which forced other airlines to also drop the fee, 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. analysts who watch airfares. Jan 22, 2008 Continental Airlines Continental Airlines on Friday raised its fuel surcharge on domestic US tickets to USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. $40 per round-trip from USD$20, marking the latest test of airline pricing power Pricing Power An economic term referring to the effect that a change in a firm's product price has on the quantity demanded of that product. Pricing power ties in with the "Price Elasticity of Demand. . The increase marks the industry's third attempt in as many weeks to raise fees to offset high fuel prices. The previous two attempts -- one led by United Airlines and the other by American -- were initially matched by other major airlines but failed to hold after consumers resisted the higher fees. In the last few days, American Airlines parent AMR, United Airlines owner UAL, and Delta Air Lines all posted fourth-quarter losses because of high fuel costs. Continental was a rare exception. It posted a pre-tax profit in the fourth quarter, boosted by its strong international route network. Jan 27, 2008 Continental Airlines Continental Going Green. Continental Airlines recently switched to ground vehicles powered by electricity at some of its hubs. Jan 23, 2008 Space Adventures The leader in the budding sector is Space Adventures of Vienna, Virginia Vienna is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 14,453 at the 2000 census and it has grown by about 3% since[1]. In July of 2005, CNN/Money and Money , which started the space tourism phenomenon in 2001 when it put U.S. businessman Dennis Tito Dennis Anthony Tito (born August 8, 1940 in Queens, New York) is a United States multimillionaire who gained celebrity status by becoming the first space tourist to pay for his own ticket, although he himself opposes being called "tourist" and asks to be called an "independent on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft Soyuz (Russian: Союз, IPA: [sa.'jus]); English: Union) is a series of spacecraft designed by Sergey Korolyov for the Soviet Union's space program. headed for the International Space Station for a reported $20 million. It has since sent another four paying passengers into space the same way. Jan 23, 2008 United, Delta, Continental, American More airlines double fuel surcharges. UAL Corp.'s United Airlines, Delta Air Lines Inc. and Continental Airlines Inc. doubled their round-trip fuel surcharges in most U.S. markets to $40, matching an increase by AMR Corp.'s American Airlines. The fee, a response to rising fuel costs, was $20 round-trip before the increase by American Thursday. Delta added the charge late last week and was joined Friday by Continental and United. The surcharge covers business and leisure fares while excluding flights in direct competition with low-fare airlines. Friday's moves mean the surcharge is now in place at the four biggest U.S. airlines by passenger traffic, led by American, the world's largest. Jet fuel has surged 57% in the past year, topping labor as some carriers' largest expense. Jan 21, 2008 US Airways US Airways has revamped its flight schedules and fixed a glitch-prone reservations system that made it one of the worst airlines in on-time performance last year. In November, it posted its best on-time performance of the year. During the quarter US Airways recalled 200 furloughed flight attendants. It also added seven more Airbus A330-200s in the quarter to an existing order for widebody jets. The aircraft will be used to support the carrier's plans to grow its international service. Company officials said in the first quarter, they will pay out $49 million in profit sharing profit sharing, arrangement by which employees receive, in addition to their wages, a share of the net profits of a business. The purpose is to give them an incentive to increase their output through enhanced morale, less wasteful use of materials, better care of to employees that the airline gained during the 2007 fiscal year. Jan 24, 2008 US Airways High fuel prices, competition, has airlines looking to consolidate. As U.S. airlines pressure each other with low fares, executives are keeping an eye on consolidation efforts as the one sure way to squeeze profits out of an industry plagued by sky high fuel costs. Many carriers have tried to boost profits by offering travelers fewer seats. But US Airways Group Chairman and Chief Executive Doug Parker said Thursday that airlines only have so much capacity left to trim on their own, probably less than 5 percent. US Airways posted its first loss in five quarters, its shares dropped 29 cents, or 2 percent, to $12.85 in afternoon trading. Jan 24, 2008 US Airways US Airways adds Gulfport to Charlotte flights. Add US Airways to the list of carriers providing direct flights from the Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport (IATA: GPT, ICAO: KGPT) is a public airport located in northern Gulfport near Biloxi, in Harrison County, Mississippi, USA. In 2006, 797,845 total passengers utilized the airport, a 3.5% increase over 2005. . The announcement of nonstop flights between US Airways' largest hub at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport Charlotte Douglas International Airport (IATA: CLT, ICAO: KCLT, FAA LID: CLT) is a major international airport located in Charlotte, North Carolina. in North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. and Gulfport is expected at an 11 a.m. news conference today. The Charlotte Business Journal reported Monday that US Airways will also provide nonstop flights from Charlotte to Fort Walton Beach Fort Walton Beach, city (1990 pop. 21,471), Okaloosa co., NW Fla., on the Gulf of Mexico; inc. 1941. It is a year-round beach and fishing resort east of Pensacola. Electronic equipment and small boats are made, and military aircraft are modified here. and Panama City, Fla., this spring. Travelers can already purchase tickets for daily flights between Gulfport and Charlotte on the US Airways Web site. The first flights on sale are for May 4, arriving at Gulfport at 11:41 a.m. and outbound, leaving Gulfport at 11:05 a.m. US Airways flies 3,800 flights per day to 230 destinations and is the sixth largest carrier in the nation. Its other hubs are Phoenix, Philadelphia and Las Vegas. Jan 22, 2008 ZZ Editorial eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact our Director of Content Aram Gesar eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com News You Can Use. For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com AirGuideFlightTracker is a new real-time service that keeps travelers informed on flight and airport status, delays, security wait times via the Web. 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