Company Watch - American Airlines.Dec 18, 2006 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 announced plans to invest $20 million in cabin upgrades on its fleet of 767-200s, which are used primarily on transcontinental routes from and to 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 . Enhancements will become available in summer 2007 and include "updated" first and business class seats, an additional first class seat in each aircraft, new on-demand personal entertainment devices and new cabin interiors. AA said it is the only US airline operating the widebody aircraft on the transcontinental route. Dec 14, 2006 American Airlines announced plans to invest $20 million in cabin upgrades on its fleet of 767-200s, which are used primarily on transcontinental routes from and to New York. Enhancements will become available in summer 2007 and include "updated" first and business class seats, an additional first class seat in each aircraft, new on-demand personal entertainment devices and new cabin interiors. AA said it is the only US airline operating the widebody aircraft on the transcontinental route. Dec 14, 2006 American Airlines flew 10.71 billion system RPMs in November, a 1.1% drop from the year-ago month. Capacity fell 3.7% to 13.43 billion ASMs and load factor rose 2.1 points to 79.7%. Domestic traffic declined 3.2% to 7.15 billion RPMs against a 4.8% fall in ASMs to 8.75 billion, lifting load factor 1.4 points to 81.7%. International RPMs rose 3.3% to 3.56 billion, capacity was down 1.5% to 4.68 billion ASMs and load factor climbed 3.5 points to 75.9%. Dec 14, 2006 American Airlines invests $20 million to entertain business travelers. American plans American plan n. Abbr. AP A system of hotel management in which a guest pays a fixed daily rate for room and meals. Noun 1. to announce today a $20 million program to spiff up Verb 1. spiff up - make neat, smart, or trim; "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child" slick up, smarten up, spruce, spruce up, titivate, tittivate beautify, fancify, prettify, embellish - make more beautiful first-class cabins in its Boeing 767-200 fleet. The upgrades will include flat-screen televisions and personal entertainment devices to provide movies, TV, music and video games See video game console. . Dec 13, 2006 American Airlines last week asked the US Dept. of Transportation to approve a "modification" to its application to win route authority to China, saying it now wants to operate service to Beijing from Chicago-O'Hare rather than Dallas/Fort Worth to comply with flight distance provisions in its labor agreement with pilots. The AA aircraft going to China would originate o·rig·i·nate v. 1. To bring into being; create. 2. To come into being; start. at DFW DFW Dallas/Ft Worth, TX, USA - Dallas Ft Worth International (Airport Code) DFW Department of Fish and Wildlife DFW David Foster Wallace DFW Drug-Free Workplace DFW Down For Whatever (song by Pretty Young Things) but would fly first to O'Hare and then go to Beijing as a "through flight." The return from Beijing would operate directly to DFW. To win the China service authority, expected to be awarded this month, AA is competing against United Airlines, which wants to link Beijing to its Washington Dulles hub; Northwest Airlines, which has proposed service between Detroit and Shanghai Shanghai (shăng`hī`, shäng`hī`), city (1994 est. pop. 12,980,000), in, but independent of, Jiangsu prov., E China, on the Huangpu (Whangpoo) River where it flows into the Chang (Yangtze) estuary. , and Continental Airlines, which would serve Shanghai from Newark. Dec 12, 2006 American hopes Noun 1. American hop - native American plant sometimes confused with the European hop Humulus americanus hops, hop - twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add to amend proposal for Chinese route. American Airlines wants to amend its proposal for a Chinese route to meet objections from its pilots. American now wants to propose that flights to Beijing from Dallas stop in Chicago. Flights from Beijing would fly directly to Dallas, since tailwinds would make the flight shorter. Dec 11, 2006 Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/onlinenews.htm To Subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com Dec 11, 2006 |
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