Low Cost Airline News.For more airline data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/professional.htm May 22, 2006 Some bargains are still available for summer fliers. Travelers can still find bargains on air fares even as high oil prices increase costs. Families should consider trips in June or September when travel is more affordable as well as starting travel in the middle of the week instead of on a weekend. May 18, 2006 Discounters move in on business travelers. Discount and startup carriers have increased service to New York's LaGuardia Airport LaGuardia Airport (IATA: LGA, ICAO: KLGA, FAA LID: LGA) is an airport serving New York City, New York, United States, located on the waterfront of Flushing Bay, and borders the neighborhoods of Astoria, Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst in the borough and other airports in large cities, USA TODAY's David Grossman
EasyJet EasyJet said it will cancel all Olbia service for the rest of the year and the capacity will be switched to Naples and Ibiza. It said the EC is investigating the ruling and that it should "soon end this abuse of these subsidized monopolies in Italy." May 15, 2006 Flyglobespan Tenerife seems to be much in favour with flyglobespan, the airline division of the Edinburgh-based travel group, who already serve the Spanish Atlantic island with daily flights from both Glasgow and Stansted. Also going daily is a new service from Liverpool's John Lennon Noun 1. John Lennon - English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980) Lennon International Airport to Tenerife in November. This is flyglobespan's second move into the north west of England The West of England is a loose term given to the area surrounding the City and County of Bristol, England. It is increasingly used - e.g. by the West of England Partnership - as a synonym for the former Avon (county) area. . They recently announced the November launch of a three-days-a-week service from Manchester to Cape Town - a first for that airport. May 21, 2006 Germanwings Germanwings will launch thrice-weekly Cologne-Belgrade service from Sept. 2. May 18, 2006 JetBlue Airways JetBlue 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. sees profits for next three quarters. JetBlue Chief Executive David Neelman said the carrier will post profits for the next three quarters. However, Neelman did not change JetBlue's forecast for an annual loss in 2006. May 19, 2006 JetBlue Airways JetBlue Airways named John Harvey executive VP and CFO See Chief Financial Officer. effective immediately. He replaces John Owen, who served in the position since the airline's formation in 1998. Owen will assume the newly created post of executive VP-supply chain and information technology. Harvey, who will join the JetBlue board, had been serving as senior VP-corporate finance and treasurer. He joined the carrier in 1999 as VP and treasurer but left in 2003 to join SkyWorks Capital, an aircraft finance company. He returned to JetBlue in 2004. May 15, 2006 Ryanair Ryanair was ordered by a Paris court of commerce to pay [euro]250,000 ($321,000) to Air France-KLM over misleading and disparaging dis·par·age tr.v. dis·par·aged, dis·par·ag·ing, dis·par·ag·es 1. To speak of in a slighting or disrespectful way; belittle. See Synonyms at decry. 2. To reduce in esteem or rank. advertising. Ryanair claimed in an ad to be "391% cheaper" than AF-KLM, which the court concluded was unjust. It also ruled that the corruption of AF-KLM's slogan "Making the sky the most beautiful place on earth" to "Making the sky the cheapest place on earth" was unacceptable. The court provisionally enforced the fine regardless of whether the Irish carrier lodges an appeal. May 19, 2006 Ryanair Ryanair said it will appeal the decision of the regional administrative court of Lazio banning the Irish 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. and its competitor easyJet from operating flights from the Italian mainland to Sardinia. The case went before the court after the Italian Transport Ministry and Civil Aviation Authority Civil Aviation Authority civil (Brit) n → Behörde f für Zivilluftfahrt placed the route under PSO PSO - Oracle Parallel Server protection. Ryanair operated Rome-Alghero service while easyJet flew between Milan Malpensa and Olbia. Air One and Meridiana also operate to Sardinia. "We have instructed our lawyers to appeal this decision to the European courts to ensure that low fares and competition are allowed in Italy. It is astonishing a·ston·ish tr.v. as·ton·ished, as·ton·ish·ing, as·ton·ish·es To fill with sudden wonder or amazement. See Synonyms at surprise. that while Ryanair has been blocked from offering low fares between mainland Italy and Sardinia, Alitalia is being allowed to sell its high fares on PSO routes that it did not even apply for," Ryanair Head of Communications Peter Sherrard said. May 15, 2006 Southwest Airlines Longtime employees stick with Southwest. About 17 Southwest Airlines employees have been with the airline since its first days. Each employee is a millionaire, and all say they remain at their jobs because they like to work. May 16, 2006 |
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