Low Cost Airline News.For more airline news, data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/professional.htm Aug 21, 2006 Air Berlin Air Berlin has acquired 100% of dba, the former British Airways British Airways in full British Airways PLC International passenger airline based in London. In 1936 British Airways Ltd. was founded through the merger of three smaller airlines. offshoot. Whilst still to be approved by the German cartel office the route networks of the two carriers complement each other very well. Air Berlin says that it can integrate dba's domestic routes into its European network without any problems. The dba slots at Munich and Dusseldorf are also very useful. dba is to continue to operate as an independent company under the umbrella of Air Berlin. Martin Gauss and Peter Wojahn will remain as managing directors. However, in future the company will be marketed as Air Berlin ("powered by dba"). The flight schedules for the coming winter months will be harmonized har·mo·nize v. har·mo·nized, har·mo·niz·ing, har·mo·niz·es v.tr. 1. To bring or come into agreement or harmony. See Synonyms at agree. 2. Music To provide harmony for (a melody). where possible. A joint summer schedule will be in operation from April 1, 2007. In the last financial year 2005/2006 dba, with its 29 aircraft, carried 4.3m passengers whilst Air Berlin counted 13.5m and operated 58 aircraft. Dba acquired LTU LTU Luleå Tekniska Universitet (Luleå University of Technology; formerly Luleå Tekniska Högskola) LTU Lithuania LTU La Trobe University (Australia) LTU Lufttransport-Unternehmen GmbH German Airlines just two months ago and that carrier is expected to follow its new parent under the Air Berlin umbrella. http://www.airberlin.com Aug 19, 2006 Air Berlin Air Berlin and dba expect to transport 20 million passengers this year and AB has no plans to cancel dba's order for 25 737NGs scheduled to begin delivering in 2008, 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. the spokesperson, who said that "dba got a very good price for that deal from Boeing and we need those aircraft for further growth." AB earned a [euro]30 million ($38.4 million) profit in the second quarter, Hunold said, following a first quarter in which it lost [euro]31 million. It operates 58 aircraft and expects a profitable year. Dba operates 29 aircraft and transported 4.3 million passengers in its last fiscal year with turnover of [euro]404 million. Aug 18, 2006 Air Berlin and dba schedules should be integrated fully with the summer timetable starting April 1, 2007 with dba's domestic routes folding into AB's European network. Dba's slots at Munich and Dusseldorf, where AB could not grow any further, were a critical component of the deal. Additional synergies will be implemented through joint orders, yield management, logistics and the entree for dba to 13,000 German travel agencies. Aug 18, 2006 Air Berlin transported 1.6 million passengers in July, up 15.4% over the year-ago month. Load factor rose 1.8 points to 85.7%. Aug 17, 2006 v AirAsia AirAsia secured a $230 million loan to be used to finance the acquisition of six A320s, according to press reports citing Deputy 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. Kamarudin Meranum. The carrier increased its commitment to the type last month with an order for 40 firm and 30 options. The loan was arranged largely by Kuwait Finance House and adheres to Islamic financing principles. AirAsia will lease the aircraft from the lender for 12 years, at which time it will purchase them. Aug 16, 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 announced that it reached a tentative five-year labor deal with 40 mechanics and ground service employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Teamsters large, powerful union of U. S. truckers. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2703] See : Labor . Ratification is expected within 10 days. Aug 17, 2006 AirTran Airways said operations were "actually going very smoothly" and that it had no security-related cancellations. "Passengers are adjusting to the new regulations and many are checking bags, so we have had a slight increase in checked baggage This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. ," a spokesperson said. Aug 14, 2006 Bmibaby Bmibaby announced that its 189 pilots represented by the British Air Line Pilots Assn. voted not to strike, with just 47% voting in favor of a work stoppage. BALPA BALPA n abbr (= British Airline Pilots' Association) → sindicato de pilotos de líneas aéreas BALPA n abbr (= British Airline Pilots' Association) → syndicat des pilotes de ligne began balloting pilots earlier this month. "BALPA have requested a meeting with us to attempt to find a way through the dispute and we are reflecting on that proposal," the carrier said. "Bmibaby's offer of negotiations for a multiyear pay deal for 2007 onwards remains on the table." The result of voting by mainline pilots will be announced Aug. 24. Aug 17, 2006 EasyJet EasyJet Keeps Profits Forecast. European low-cost airline easyJet retained its pretax profit growth forecast of 40-50 percent this year despite recent travel woes, its chief executive said. Andrew Harrison told German weekly magazine WirtschaftsWoche that flights had largely returned to normal since Thursday, following a week when airlines had cancelled flights as security was tightened after UK police said they had foiled a plot to blow up trans-atlantic airliners. Harrison reiterated the airline would increase pretax profit to GBP GBP In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the British Pound. 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. 114 million pounds (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. $214.5 million) this year. He said the airline would double its profit margin to 15 percent in 2008 and earn at least GBP4 (USD$7.50) per passenger. Launched by entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, KBE (born 14 February 1967 in Athens) is a Greek-Cypriot born British entrepreneur and is best known for setting up easyJet, a low-cost airline. Early days in 1995, easyJet floated in London in 2000, bought the low-cost carrier A low-cost carrier or low-cost airline (also known as a no-frills or discount carrier / airline) is an airline that offers generally low fares in exchange for eliminating many traditional passenger services. Go in 2002 and has since grown rapidly, with around 170 planes expected in the air by 2008. Aug 20, 2006 EasyJet intended to operate a full flying program by Saturday and maintained extended check-in hours to allow passengers to deal with intensified security checks. Ryanair advised passengers booked to travel over the weekend on flights from the UK to bring only one bag and offered those who did not wish to travel on Aug. 11-12 a rebooking free of charge via a special Web link, a policy it introduced on Aug. 10. Aug 14, 2006 FlyGlobespan FlyGlobespan seems to have got the Transatlantic and long haul Long distance. Long haul implies traversing a state or a country. Contrast with short haul. bug in a big way. After successfully introducing daily Boeing 767 flights from Glasgow International to Orlando for this summer, and announcing Toronto services for the winter from Belfast, Cardiff, Gatwick, Manchester and Stansted, the airline now says it will operate Glasgow - Boston next summer. It is also committed to Liverpool - Newark 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 at the same time and has previously confirmed Manchester - Cape Town Cape Town or Capetown, city (1991 pop. 854,616), legislative capital of South Africa and capital of Western Cape, a port on the Atlantic Ocean. It was the capital of Cape Province before that province's subdivision in 1994. . Glasgow to Barbados 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. will have limited services. Both two and three - class aircraft are used on the services. http://www.flyglobespan.com Aug 19, 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 has launched up to six daily nonstop flights between New York/John F. Kennedy International Airport Noun 1. Kennedy International Airport - a large airport on Long Island to the east of New York City Kennedy Interrnational, Kennedy Long Island - an island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end (JFK) and Washington, D.C./Dulles International Airport breaking into a market dominated by the US generic carriers. Services will be operated by JetBlue's Embraer 190 fleet, featuring 100 leather seats, generous legroom leg·room n. Room in which to stretch the legs while seated. legroom Noun space to move one's legs comfortably, as in a car legroom n → , 36 channels of onboard TV and more than 100 of satellite radio. The new services complete the JetBlue New York - Boston - Washington triangle. http://www.jetblue.com Aug 19, 2006 JetBlue Airways yesterday launched six-times-daily (five on Sunday) New York JFK-Washington Dulles service aboard Embraer 190s. Aug 18, 2006 JetBlue Airways said operations at New York JFK were going well and that it was relieved to get permission to continue offering to passengers traveling overnight its Shut-Eye amenity kit that includes lotion and lip balm balm, name for any balsam resin and for several plants, e.g., the bee balm. balm Any of several fragrant herbs of the mint family, particularly Melissa officinalis (balm gentle, or lemon balm), cultivated in temperate climates for its fragrant . US Airways told this website that Friday featured "some delays, but not much more than normal," while Continental Airlines said the 34-min. average delay at Newark was due to high winds and that security screening was "not a big factor." Aug 14, 2006 Norwegian Norwegian flew 535 million RPKs in July, up 67% on the year-ago month. Capacity rose 70% to 595 million ASKs and load factor fell 1 point to 90%. Aug 18, 2006 Ryanair Ryanair Says Security Won't Derail de·rail intr. & tr.v. de·railed, de·rail·ing, de·rails 1. To run or cause to run off the rails. 2. Low-Cost Travel. Heightened airport security will not derail the rapid growth of budget airlines, Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O'Leary said on Friday. However, the boss of Europe's largest low-cost airline threatened to sue the British government for compensation if it did not scale back security measures in seven days, saying recent transport chaos had cost it some GBP2 million pounds (USD$3.8 million). Air travel in Britain has been severely disrupted since police said last week they foiled a plot to bomb transatlantic airliners. Since then, travellers have faced tighter security, long delays and restrictions on hand luggage, and airlines have cancelled more than 750 flights from London's Heathrow Airport alone. Aug 18, 2006 SkyEurope Airlines SkyEurope Airlines said it has appointed UBS UBS Union Bank of Switzerland UBS United Bible Societies UBS United Blood Services UBS United Buying Service UBS Used Bookstore UBS University Business Services UBS Universal Building Society (UK) UBS Ulaanbaatar Broadcasting System Investment Bank and CA-IB Corporate Finance to "examine a range of financing options" that may include the flotation of new shares in order to "finance the fleet and continued network expansion." The carrier raised [euro]60 million ($76.4 million) from an initial offering of 12.98 million shares last fall. It reported a loss of [euro]33.8 million in the fiscal first half ended March 31. Aug 17, 2006 SkyEurope Airlines transported a record 346,597 passengers in July, up 44% over the year-ago month. Load factor fell 5.5 points to 84.2%. It also named Karim Makhlouf chief commercial officer, Lane Zirnhelt finance manager and Benjamin Djiane communications manager. Aug 17, 2006 Southwest Airlines Southwest to add five flights at Dallas Love Field This article is about the airport. For the neighborhood, see Love Field, Dallas, Texas (Neighborhood). Dallas Love Field (IATA: DAL, ICAO: KDAL, FAA LID: DAL . Southwest Airlines in October will add five round-trip flights at Dallas Love Field. The airline will add flights to St. Louis, Kansas City, New Orleans and Albuquerque, N.M. Aug 18, 2006 Spirit Airlines Spirit Airlines launched service Tuesday from Boston to Detroit (twice-daily) and Myrtle Beach (daily) aboard A319s. Aug 17, 2006 Sterling European Danish LCC (Leadless Chip Carrier, Leaded Chip Carrier) See leadless chip carrier, CLCC and PLCC. 1. LCC - Language for Conversational Computing. Written at CMU in the 1960's. Sterling, acquired officially by FL Group in the first quarter, reported a pre-tax loss of ISK ISK In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Iceland Krona. 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. 2.53 billion for the first half but pre-tax income of ISK320 million for the three months to June 30. "The Sterling turnaround is moving according to plan while record high fuel prices and increased competition remain challenging," Smarason said. Aug 16, 2006 Virgin America Virgin America secures additional $53M in financing. Virgin America has signed a new financing agreement for an additional $53 million to help offset legal costs. Several large U.S. carriers are challenging Virgin's plan to start U.S. service. The company did not disclose who provided the financing in a filing made with the Department of Transportation. Aug 18, 2006 Virgin America Causing US Airline Turbulence. Start-up US air carrier Virgin America has not flown a plane or even got its license to operate, but it is already creating turbulence in the US airline industry. Incumbent carriers, led by Continental Airlines, have lobbied hard to keep Virgin America from getting off the ground. Those efforts, which have slowed Virgin America's efforts to gain US government approval to start flying, show how intense competition is in the US airline industry and how fragile its recent recovery may be. Aug 15, 2006 Vueling Airlines Vueling Airlines will begin daily Santiago de Compostela-Paris Charles de Gaulle service on Sept. 18 aboard an A320. Aug 18, 2006 WestJet Airlines WestJet will launch the following routes on Oct. 29: Toronto-West Palm Beach (thrice-weekly); Edmonton to Phoenix (four-times-weekly) and Palm Springs (thrice-weekly); Montreal to Orlando (four-times-weekly) and Tampa (thrice-weekly), and Ottawa to Orlando (four-times-weekly) and Tampa (thrice-weekly). It also will increase frequencies on 19 other transborder routes. Aug 17, 2006 Wizz Air Not all companies have suffered from the London airport chaos. High-speed train operator Eurostar has seen a 27% increase in passengers since the introduction of tougher security measures across Europe, carrying an extra 28,000 travelers over the past four days. Central Europe's Wizz Air said it experienced "no flight cancellations" during the peak of the crisis Aug. 10-14, operating 130 flights to and from the UK and carrying more than 22,000 passengers, including a significant number rebooked from other airlines' cancelled flights. Aug 16, 2006 Wizz Air Wizz Air will extend its twice-weekly service from Katowice to Girona-Costa Brava bra·va interj. Used to express approval of a woman, especially for a performance. n. A shout or cry of "brava." [Italian, feminine of bravo, bravo; see bravo1.] , originally scheduled to end next month, to Oct. 28. Aug 14, 2006 |
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