Company Watch - United Airlines.For more company news, data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/professional.htm Aug 21, 2006 United Airlines has applied for daily nonstop service between Washington DC and Beijing which is not presently served, the best connections being in the range of 16.5 hour travel time. If approved, the service will begin in March 2007 and cut three hours from the flight time. United plans to operate a combined passenger and cargo service on the route Boeing 747 aircraft configured with 14 First Suite seats, 73 business and 260 economy, including 88 Economy Plus. The Asia-Pacific region is also important to United's cargo division; its business there accounts for approximately 40% of the division's total revenue. http://www.united.com Aug 19, 2006 United adds flights at Dulles. United Airlines says it will add 22 flights at Dulles International Airport, a move that will fill the gap created when Independence Air shut down. United in October will add flights to Kuwait, Japan and several U.S. cities. Aug 18, 2006 United Raises US Business Fares. United Airlines on Friday said it raised most business fares by 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. $5 for one-way trips and USD$10 for round trips in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . United said the fare increase applies to its first-class seats and to all seats booked seven or fewer days ahead of the flight. The increases apply to all of United's US markets, excluding seats on its low-cost airline Ted. United rivals -- 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 , Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines -- said they had not yet matched the increases. US airlines, battered by low-cost competition, have initiated several lasting fare increases lately, offsetting high fuel prices and bolstering revenue. The boost in United's business fares comes on the heels of news last week of a foiled bomb plot targeting planes. Experts said the subsequent security-related delays at airports prompted some business travelers to book on private jets instead of commercial. Aug 18, 2006 United Airlines said it applied to operate daily nonstop Washington Dulles-Beijing service beginning in March aboard 747s. It currently operates four daily flights between the countries and announced plans to add 40 weekly 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. flights following its decision to sell 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-London rights to Delta Air Lines and transfer its JFK-Tokyo Narita route to IAD (Integrated Access Device) A device that multiplexes a variety of communications technologies in the customer's premises onto a single telephone line for transmission to the carrier. It also demultiplexes the incoming streams into their respective channels. starting Oct. 28. Washington is the largest US market without nonstop service to China. Aug 16, 2006 Unruly Passenger Forces Emergency Landing In Boston. A Washington-bound United Airlines flight from London made an emergency landing in Boston on Wednesday after a woman suffering from claustrophobia claustrophobia /claus·tro·pho·bia/ (-fo´be-ah) irrational fear of being shut in, of closed places. claus·tro·pho·bi·a n. An abnormal fear of being in narrow or enclosed spaces. became unruly, but there was no apparent terrorist threat, police and security officials said. Flight 923, carrying 182 passengers and 12 crew, was escorted by fighter jets to Boston where it landed without incident, said US Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Amy Von Walter. Police said they arrested one person but declined to say who it was. Aug 16, 2006 United Airlines flew 11.07 billion system RPMs in July, a 3.4% increase over the year-ago month. Capacity rose 1.9% to 12.62 billion ASMs, lifting load factor 1.3 points to 87.7%. Aug 14, 2006 TACA TACA Talk About Curing Autism TACA Tennessee Association of Craft Artists TACA Turkish American Cultural Alliance TACA Texas Aggregates and Concrete Association (Austin, Texas) TACA Transportes Aereos Centro-Américanos and United Airlines expanded their codeshare agreement Code sharing is a business term which was first originated in the airline industry in 1990 when the Australian airline, Qantas Airways and the US's American Airlines combined services between an array of US domestic cities and Australian cities. to include Lacsa-operated flights to Los Angeles, New York JFK and Miami effective Aug. 15. Aug 14, 2006 |
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