Low Cost Airline News - North America.Sep 17, 2007 AirCell, Virgin America Virgin America is a U.S. based low-cost airline that began service on 8 August 2007. The airline's stated aim is to provide low-fare, high-quality service for "long-haul point-to-point service between major metropolitan cities on the Eastern and West Coast seaboards". AirCell entered into an agreement with Virgin America to provide broadband Internet See broadband. service to passengers aboard the startup's Airbus A319s and A320s. Passengers will be able to access the Internet using either Virgin America's "Red" IFE Ife (ē`fā), city (1991 est. pop. 262,000), SW Nigeria. Located in a farm region, the city is an important center for marketing and shipping cacao. According to tradition, Ife is the oldest Yoruba town (founded c.1300). system or their own Wi-Fi-enabled laptops or other portable systems while in flight. AirCell and Virgin America will integrate AirCell's broadband service See broadband and broadband service provider. into Virgin's IFE system, AirCell said, noting that the service will be available aboard the entire fleet "sometime in 2008." Virgin America launched last month touting customer service superior to existing US carriers such as 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). . Sep 14, 2007 AirTran Airways AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings announced that all-pro quarterback Donovan McNabb has joined the AirTran Airways team and will be featured in radio spots and state-of-the art high-impact billboards across the Philadelphia area. Sep 14, 2007 Frontier Airlines 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 JetBlue Airways added the title of president to COO Russ Chew, who joined the carrier from US FAA in the wake of the February operational difficulties 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 JFK. "Since Russ joined our team, we have established the right foundation for continuous improvement," 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. Dave Barger said. Sep 13, 2007 JetBlue Airways JetBlue Airways said August passenger RASM RASM Revenue per Available Seat Mile RASM Reliability, Availability, Scalability and Manageability (Red Hat, Inc.) RASM Rear Admiral Submarines (UK) RASM Recorded Announcement Systems Manager increased 15% year-over-year as it flew 2.51 billion RPMs, a 13.4% gain over the year-ago month. Capacity rose 9.8% to 2.91 billion ASMs and load factor improved 2.7 points to 86.4%. Sep 10, 2007 Southwest Airlines In classic Southwest Airlines flair, CEO Gary Kelly on Sept. 14 made a public apology to one of its Customers whose trip several months ago has become the subject of recent television and newspaper commentary. Sep 14, 2007 Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines says 609 employees accepted buyouts. Southwest Airlines says 7% of eligible employees have accepted a buyout offer that includes a $25,000 cash payment plus health and dental benefits. The offer had been extended to 8,500 workers as part of a larger company effort to cut costs. The airline said the program's intention was to lower costs by encouraging senior high-paid employees to take voluntarily leave. It said staff totals will stay relatively static as it plans to replace nearly all of the bought-out workers with younger employees earning lower wages. The majority of the departing employees (395) worked in reservations. Pilots and mechanics were not offered buyouts. The workers who have decided to participate in the program will leave their jobs between Sept. 30 and April 30, 2008. Sep 12, 2007 Southwest Airlines, Boeing Southwest flight forced to land after landing gear failed to retract TO RETRACT. To withdraw a proposition or offer before it has been accepted. 2. This the party making it has a right to do is long as it has not been accepted; for no principle of law or equity can, under these circumstances, require him to persevere in it. . A Southwest Airlines flight returned to Oakland International Airport
Oakland International Airport (IATA: OAK, ICAO: KOAK, FAA LID: OAK), also known as after its nose landing gear of the Boeing 737 failed to retract. FAA officials say Southwest flight 614 was en route to San Diego Wednesday morning, but the pilot couldn't get the landing gear to come up after taking off. The plane turned around and landed safely at Oakland several minutes later. Sep 13, 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 our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com AirGuideFlightTracker is a new real-time service that keeps travelers informed on flight and airport status, delays, security wait times via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Pyramid Media Group / Air Travel Media. All rights reserved. |
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