Low Cost Airline News - North America.Oct 9, 2006 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 AirTran Airways flew 949.9 million RPMs in September, an 11.6% increase over the year-ago month. Capacity surged 28.6% to 1.54 billion ASMs and load factor dropped 9.4 points to 61.8%. Oct 6, 2006 Frontier Airlines This article is about Frontier Airlines that was founded in 1994. For the company known as Frontier Airlines from 1950 to 1986, see Frontier Airlines (1950-1986). For the similarly named Frontier Flying Service see Frontier Flying Service. Frontier Air Cuts Profit Forecast. Discount carrier Frontier Airlines on Thursday cut its profit forecast, blaming it on the fallout of a failed plot to bomb US airliners that was uncovered by British police in August. Frontier's shares fell more than 13 percent after the news. Denver-based Frontier said it now expects to post earnings per share in its fiscal second quarter of 1 cent to 5 cents, before the impact of unrealized fuel derivative gains and losses. The incident hurt travel demand primarily in September, Chief Executive Jeff Potter said in a statement. Oct 5, 2006 Frontier Airlines Frontier now operates out of neat new digs at Akron-Canton. You'll find the airplanes with the western wildlife on tier tails departing from Gate 11 of CAK's sunlit sun·lit adj. Illuminated by the sun. Adj. 1. sunlit - lighted by sunlight; "the sunlit slopes of the canyon"; "violet valleys and the sunstruck ridges"- Wallace Stegner sunstruck , airy new south concourse. Oct 2, 2006 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). JetBlue Airways flew 1.64 billion RPMs in September, an 8.2% rise over the year-ago month. Capacity increased 15.8% to 2.26 billion ASMs and load factor fell 5.1 points to 72.6%. Oct 6, 2006 JetBlue Airways JetBlue Sells Planes To Germany's Blue Wings
Blue Wings is an airline based in Düsseldorf, Germany. It operates scheduled services to Russia and charter flights mainly to Turkey and the Middle East. . German charter carrier Blue Wings bought five Airbus A320 aircraft from discount US airline JetBlue Airways, which was selling the planes to cut costs, Blue Wings spokesman Frank Lorentz said on Friday. JetBlue spokeswoman Jenny Dervin said all the planes would be on their way to their new owner by mid-November. Representatives of the airlines declined to comment on financial details of the deal. In July, JetBlue said it expected a gain of about 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. $6 million from the sale of the planes in the third quarter. New York-based JetBlue is selling the planes to cut capacity as part of a turnaround plan. Blue Wings, a three-year-old carrier based A transmission system that generates a fixed frequency (carrier) to contain the data being transmitted. See carrier. in Dusseldorf, plans to start scheduled service next year. This summer, it ordered 20 Airbus A320 planes for USD$1.4 billion. Oct 6, 2006 JetBlue Airways JetBlue Airways yesterday launched daily Washington Dulles-West Palm Beach service aboard an A320. Oct 4, 2006 Southwest Airlines This article is about the American airline. For the former Japanese airline, see Japan Transocean Air. For the British airline, see Air Southwest. Southwest Airlines Co. Southwest Airlines flew 5.2 billion RPMs in September, up 9.8% on the year-ago month. Capacity increased 10.1% to 7.73 billion ASMs, dropping load factor 0.2 point to 67.2%. Oct 6, 2006 Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines launched its Washington Dulles service yesterday. The carrier will use two gates on the B Concourse and operate 12 daily flights to Chicago Midway (seven), Orlando International (two), Tampa (two) and Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. (one). It will base 40 employees at 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. . Oct 6, 2006 Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines saw its August 06 baggage complaints rise to over 54,000, a rate of 6.1 per 1,000 passengers from 4.4 a year earlier. Southwest brought on more baggage handlers to cope in August, the peak of the busy summer travel season. Southwest carried 8.8 million passengers on domestic flights in August, more than any other airline. "We saw a 20 to 30 percent increase in the number of checked bags as a result of the security increase," said Beth Harbin, a spokeswoman for Southwest. Oct 5, 2006 Sun Country Airlines Low-fare Sun Country Airlines now flies out of Terminal 4 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 Kennedy. Oct 2, 2006 WestJet Airlines WestJet Loads Higher, Air Canada's Slip. WestJet Airlines flew much fuller aircraft even as its capacity increased in September, but Air Canada, the country's biggest airline, reported a drop, the two carriers said on Thursday. Oct 5, 2006 WestJet Airlines WestJet revenue passenger miles for September 2006 were 817.4 million, up 24 percent from 656.7 million. For the first nine months of the year, RPMs increased 22 percent to 7.3 billion, WestJet said. Oct 5, 2006 WestJet Airlines WestJet said its load factor last month was 75.2 percent, up from 70.9 percent in September 2005. Year to date, WestJet filled 79.2 percent of its seats, compared with 74.5 percent by the end of the third quarter last year. 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 September were up 17 percent from a year earlier to 1.09 billion, the airline said. Oct 5, 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 our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com Oct 2, 2006 |
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