Low Cost Airline News - North America.May 14, 2007 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 yesterday launched service at St. Louis, from which it will operate four daily flights to Atlanta. Twice-daily flights to Orlando International begin June 7. May 9, 2007 AirTran Airways AirTran Airways: First Day of Flight in St. Louis with Fresh Budweiser Beer AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings AirTran Holdings (NYSE: AAI) is a Nevada corporation that operates as an airline holding company. Its primary asset is AirTran Airways. History After the large amount of negative publicity surrounding the Flight 592 incident, ValuJet Airlines suffered serious , Inc., today announced that it will serve Budweiser and Bud Light with a same-day born-on date on all flights to and from St. Louis on May 8th. Anheuser-Busch, the St. Louis- based company that brews Budweiser products, delivered the fresh beer in honor of AirTran Airways' new service to Lambert-St. Louis International Airport
Lambert-St. Louis International Airport (IATA: STL, ICAO: KSTL) is the primary airport for St. Louis, Missouri, United States and the surrounding area. , which begins today. May 8, 2007 AirTran Airways AirTran Airways flew 1.43 billion RPMs in April, up 18.5% on the year-ago month. Capacity climbed 21.5% to 1.86 billion ASMs, dropping load factor 2 points to 76.8%. May 7, 2007 AirTran Airways AirTran Airways Gets Travelers to 'Go' In New TV Spots Get up and "Go" is the theme of four new TV spots from AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc.The spots, which debut today, illustrate how the low-fare carrier breaks down consumers' barriers with fares that make it easy to travel for business or leisure. May 7, 2007 AirTran Airways, Midwest Airlines
Midwest Airlines is an American scheduled passenger airline based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, operating from General Mitchell International Airport. Midwest, AirTran executives discuss bid at investor conference Midwest Airlines 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. Tim Hoeksema said he supported the board's decision in April to reject a $389 million purchase bid by AirTran Airways. Hoeksema made the remarks at an industry conference in 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 on Wednesday. AirTran President Bob Fornaro also spoke and said AirTran believes many Midwest shareholders support the bid. May 10, 2007 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 Airlines Holdings Frontier Airlines Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: FRNT), is a United States based airline holding company. The company has headquarters in Denver, Colorado. Airline Holdings Certificated airline divisions and operations 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 resignation spotlights industry challenges David Neeleman's resignation from the top post at JetBlue Airways demonstrates how difficult and competitive the airline business has become in the past few years, with airlines struggling with soaring fuel costs, operations issues and stagnant stagnant /stag·nant/ (stag´nant) 1. motionless; not flowing or moving. 2. inactive; not developing or progressing. fare prices. May 11, 2007 JetBlue Airways JetBlue considers California expansion JetBlue is considering adding flights from several cities in alifornia. David Neeleman David G. Neeleman (born October 16, 1959) is the founder and former CEO of JetBlue Airways. Neeleman, an American of Dutch descent, was born in São Paulo, Brazil.[1] , who today announced he is stepping down as CEO and will be nonexecutive board chairman, said fares are now higher on the West Coast than they are on the East Coast. He reiterated that the airline expects to post a profit for the first quarter and the full year. May 10, 2007 JetBlue Airways JetBlue Airways removed David Neeleman as chief executive on Thursday, three months after a major service meltdown meltdown Occurrence in which a huge amount of thermal energy and radiation is released as a result of an uncontrolled chain reaction in a nuclear power reactor. The chain reaction that occurs in the reactor's core must be carefully regulated by control rods, which absorb , putting the 47-year-old founder of the company into the role of nonexecutive chairman. May 10, 2007 JetBlue Airways JetBlue has strengthened its executive team in recent months following the disruption of hundreds of flights by winter storms, which highlighted the inability of its systems to cope with rapid growth. Mr Neeleman founded JetBlue in 1998 after selling his Morris Air business to 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. and spending a short spell with the largest US domestic carrier before launching another airline in Canada. May 10, 2007 JetBlue Airways JetBlue CEO Steps Aside On Thursday, the carrier announced its president, Dave Barger, would also serve as CEO of the airline effective immediately, as founder and CEO David Neeleman transitions to a full-time position as non-executive chairman of the board, a position he has held since 2002. May 10, 2007 JetBlue Airways JetBlue Airways said that traffic rose 11.6% in April, while capacity increased 12.8%. Load factor, or the percentage of the plane filled with passengers, fell 0.9 percentage points to 84.7%, the New York-based carrier said. May 7, 2007 Northwest Airlines Northwest Airlines said yesterday that preliminary results indicate 96.9% of its creditors, comprising 98.4% of the dollar value of claims, voted to approve its plan of reorganization, clearing the way for the carrier's emergence from bankruptcy next month. Final voting results will be filed this week with the US Bankruptcy Court bankruptcy court n. the specialized Federal court in which bankruptcy matters under the Federal Bankruptcy Act are conducted. There are several bankruptcy courts in each state, and each one's territory covers several counties. , which will hold a confirmation hearing May 16. May 10, 2007 Southwest Airlines Slowing economy hurts demand for travel, Southwest CEO says Growing evidence suggests the slowing economy is weakening weak·en tr. & intr.v. weak·ened, weak·en·ing, weak·ens To make or become weak or weaker. weak  en·er n. demand for travel,
Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly
Gary Kelly (born 9 July 1974 in Drogheda) is a retired Irish professional footballer who played his whole career for Leeds United. said ednesday. The company is targeting a 15% increase in profits this year, but Kelly said it may revise targets for 2008 and beyond. May 10, 2007 Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines late Thursday said it expects earnings growth of 15% for 2007. The Dallas-based carrier said it reissued the comments, which were first made at a Bear Stearns The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. (NYSE: BSC) is the parent company of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., one of the largest global investment banks and securities trading and brokerage firms in the world. conference on Wednesday, due to inaccurate media reports. In today's statement, the airline said there's growing evidence of a slowing economy that is impacting travel demand. "So for us, that makes our earnings growth target pretty tough for this year," Chief Executive Gary Kelly said. "But we do have a target to grow earnings by 15% this year ... that target stands. It is certainly going to be much tougher to achieve given our results for the first quarter and our expected results in the second quarter." End of Story May 10, 2007 Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines Kicks Off a Summer Filled With Low Fares for Philly Customers Airline Offers Fares as Low as $29 One-Way in Philadelphia for the Month of May is celebrating summer in Philadelphia with super low fares through the month of May. Today, the airline's Chief Executive Officer, Gary Kelly, announced special fares for flights between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Manchester, Providence, Columbus, and Raleigh-Durham. With walk-up fares as low as $49 one-way and advance purchase fares as low as $29 one-way, flying for business or pleasure has never been easier (see fare rules below). May 9, 2007 Southwest Airlines Southwest takes steps to boost efficiency Southwest Airlines is working to become more efficient by timing how long it takes to help passengers use check-in kiosks and how long they wait for boarding passes. Southwest's executives also say they want to correct the airline's slipping on-time performance and record for mishandled bags. "After 9/11, we just got into survival mode, but competition is heating up again, and we need to keep our edge," says Greg Wells, Southwest's senior vice president of operations. May 7, 2007 ZZ Editorial eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact our Director of Content Aram Gesar eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please 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 AirGuideFlightTracker is a new, free service that aims to keep travelers informed flight and airport status via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Air Travel Media / Pyramid Media Group. All rights reserved. May 7, 2007 |
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