Company Watch - Northwest Airlines.For more company news, data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/professional.htm Jul 10, 2006 Northwest Airlines flight attendants voted on Thursday to throw out their independent union and join the larger, stronger Association of Flight Attendants The Association of Flight Attendants (commonly known as AFA) is a union representing flight attendants in the United States. AFA represents 55,000 flight attendants at 20 airlines, making it the world's largest flight attendant union. . But with Northwest free to impose new pay cuts and work rule changes on July 17, it may be too late for the new union to negotiate improvements. Jul 6, 2006 Northwest Airlines reported Wednesday that it had 8.8 percent less June traffic on 11.1 percent less capacity, and flew almost 89 percent full systemwide. Revenue passenger miles Revenue passenger miles (RPMs) is a measure of a passenger traffic for an airline flight, bus, or train calculated by multiplying the total number of revenue-paying passengers aboard the vehicle by the distance traveled measured in miles. : 7.01 billion. Year before: 7.68 billion. Available seat miles Available seat miles (ASM) is a measure of an airline flight's passenger carrying capacity. It is equal to the number of seats available multiplied by the number of miles flown. This measures an airlines capacity for transporting passengers. in June: 7.88 billion. Year before: 8.87 billion. Load factor: 88.9 percent. Year before: 86.6 percent. On Asia-Pacific routes, Northwest flew 1.7 billion RPMs, down 8.1 percent, on 1.86 billion ASMs, down 7.2 percent, for a 92.5 percent regional load factor. Northwest is the busiest non-Japanese carrier at Tokyo Narita and flies to Hawaii from both Tokyo and Osaka. Jul 6, 2006 Northwest expands first-class meal options. Northwest Airlines has brought back meal choices for first-class passengers on long domestic flights. Fliers can now pick a meat or vegetarian vegetarian /veg·e·tar·i·an/ (vej?e-tar´e-an) 1. one who practices vegetarianism. 2. pertaining to vegetarianism. veg·e·tar·i·an n. One who practices vegetarianism. meal for breakfast and lunch, and the airline will offer the same options for dinner by August. Jul 5, 2006 Northwest Airlines, which has been operating under bankruptcy bankruptcy, in law, settlement of the liabilities of a person or organization wholly or partially unable to meet financial obligations. The purposes are to distribute, through a court-appointed receiver, the bankrupt's assets equitably among creditors and, in most protection, on Wednesday said passenger traffic declined 8.8 percent in June due to weakness on domestic and international flights. Jul 5, 2006 Northwest, Delta cut the most flights in past year. Northwest Airlines has cut more flights in the past year on a percentage basis than any other major carrier as it seeks to cut costs, 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 report by 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. . The paper studied flight-schedule data from Back Aviation Solutions, an industry research firm based in Virginia. The results: Between July 2005 and July 2006, Eagan, Minn.-based Northwest went from 2,911 flights per day to 2,481 flights, a 14.8 percent decline. Jul 3, 2006 |
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