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AMR Says First Quarter Revenue Improving
Last Updated: April 24, 2008
On Monday AMR, parent of American Airlines, said it expected its unit revenue to increase between 6.9 percent and 7.9 percent year-over-year in the first quarter. The company, which saw its mainline unit revenue up 4.Click here for full story

British Airways Denies Iberia Bid Imminent
Last Updated: April 24, 2008
British Airways said today it had no current plans to bid for Iberia, after a newspaper speculated it was preparing an offer for the Spanish carrier. BA said last week it had bought about another 3 percent of Iberia, taking its stake to 13.15 percent.Click here for full story

Aloha Airlines Files For Bankruptcy
Last Updated: April 24, 2008
Aloha Airgroup, parent of Aloha Airlines, has filed for bankruptcy protection and blamed "predatory pricing" by competitor Mesa Airlines for its troubles. The company, which employs 3,500, had emerged from bankruptcy protection about two years ago.Click here for full story

Qantas Flights Aborts Takeoff At LAX
Last Updated: April 24, 2008
A jetliner carrying hundreds of passengers blew four tires while trying to take off at Los Angeles International Airport and got stranded on the runway, an official said Tuesday.Click here for full story

It's Official, All U.S.A. International Airlines Have Raised Their Fuel Surcharges To Europe Now As High As $242 Roundtrip
Last Updated: April 24, 2008
Last Friday, March 21, 2008, eight international airlines raised their fuel surcharges to Europe. The most expensive add on fuel surcharge today is to England at an extra $242 roundtrip. Germany still offers the lowest fuel surcharges at $190 roundtrip.Click here for full story

Update: March 26, 2008 - United Airlines Rolls Back $10 Fuel Surcharge
Last Updated: April 24, 2008
Last week Delta Airlines attempted to raise their domestic airfares on non-competitive routes by an additional $10 roundtrip. If this airfare fuel surcharge hike would have stuck, it would have been the fifth consecutive weekly airfare hike.Click here for full story

United Airlines Retests Some 747 Equipment
Last Updated: April 24, 2008
United Airlines said on Thursday that it is retesting the altitude indicators on seven of its Boeing 747 jumbo jets after determining that test equipment at a maintenance facility in South Korea needed to be checked for calibration.Click here for full story

Delta Airlines Becomes The Third Major Carrier To Charge For Second Piece Of Checked Luggage
Last Updated: April 24, 2008
Delta Airlines has joined United Airlines and US Airways in charging $25 for a second piece of checked luggage (Delta Airlines change is effective May 2008). But it doesn't stop there.Click here for full story

Update: March 20, 2008 - United Airlines Matches $10 Price Hike
Last Updated: April 24, 2008
As of 8:00 a.m. (Central Time) United Airlines is the only major airline to match the $10 increase to domestic flight fuel surcharges that Delta added yesterday.Click here for full story

Delta Adds $10 To Domestic Fares
Last Updated: April 24, 2008
On Wednesday Delta Air Lines said it added another $10 to US domestic round-trip fares to offset rising jet fuel prices. A spokeswoman for Delta said the $10 is an increase to the fuel surcharge.Click here for full story

Delta Airlines Raises Fares Again! This Time An Extra $10
Last Updated: April 24, 2008
It looks like Delta Airlines wasn't satisfied with last weekend's unprecedented -up to $50- increase. All the legacy airlines joined in on that last increase, which was initiated by United Airlines.Click here for full story

American Airlines and Northwest Airlines Raise International Fuel Surcharges By $20 Roundtrip
Last Updated: April 24, 2008
Travelers wishing to travel to Europe this summer are being hit from all sides with new higher airfares, new higher fuel surcharges and a much higher euro - the triple whammy of high-cost travel to Europe.Click here for full story

Delta Airlines To Charge For Second Checked Bag
Last Updated: April 24, 2008
Beginning in May, Delta Air Lines plans to join United Airlines and US Airways in charging passengers for a second checked bag, Delta president and CFO Ed Bastian told investors at a JP Morgan aviation conference in New York this morning.Click here for full story

Delta Airlines To Cut Jobs, Airlines Look To Streamline
Last Updated: April 24, 2008
On Tuesday Delta Air Lines unveiled plans to cut 2,000 jobs and scale back flights, leading efforts by US carriers to cut costs in the face of rising fuel prices and a weakening economy.Click here for full story

Alitalia Airlines Sale Meets New Trouble
Last Updated: April 24, 2008
Alitalia's agreement to a takeover offer from Air France-KLM over the weekend has sent the Italian airline flying into political and union turbulence.Click here for full story

All Major Airlines Raise Business And Leisure Airfares Up To $50 Including Northwest Airlines
Last Updated: April 24, 2008
Today Northwest Airlines, the last holdout of the legacy airlines, matched the $10 to $50 airfare hike initiated by United Airlines on March 13, 2008.Click here for full story

All Major Airlines Raise Airfares Except Northwest Airlines. Is This Fare Hike A Bust?
Last Updated: April 23, 2008
On the evening of March 13, 2008, United Airlines raised both leisure and business domestic airfares by $10 roundtrip on flights up to 500 air miles, $20 on flights 501 to 1000 air miles, $30 on flights 1001 to 1500 air miles, and a whopping $50 roundtrip on domestic flights over 1,500 air miles one-way.Click here for full story

United Airlines And Continental Airlines Attempt To Raise Airfares Up To $50 Roundtrip
Last Updated: April 23, 2008
On the evening of March 13, 2008, United Airlines raised both their leisure and business airfares by $10 roundtrip on flights up to 500 air miles, $20 on flights 501 to 1000 air miles, $30 on flights 1001 to 1500 air miles, and a whopping $50 roundtrip on domestic flights over 1,500 air miles one-way.Click here for full story

Recession Worries Drive Down Airline Stocks
Last Updated: April 23, 2008
Shares in US airlines fell on Wednesday, with Northwest Airlines and Alaska Air Group dropping more than 10 percent, after JP Morgan cut its ratings on those carriers and several others due to recession concerns.Click here for full story

Southwest Airlines Grounds Some Planes
Last Updated: April 23, 2008
Let’s start off with what we DO know:

Southwest Airlines has one of the best safety records of ANY commercial airline.Click here for full story

Three Suspended In Southwest Airlines Safety Probe
Last Updated: April 23, 2008
Southwest Airlines suspended three employees in response to government allegations it knowingly flew planes that had not been properly inspected for potential structural flaws, the carrier said on Tuesday.Click here for full story

Southwest Airlines Faces Largest Civil Penalty Ever Imposed By Feds
Last Updated: April 23, 2008
Federal regulators will seek a civil penalty of $10.2 million against Southwest Airlines for failing to inspect older planes for cracks and then flying them before inspections were done.Click here for full story

US Airlines May Shrink To Save Money
Last Updated: April 23, 2008
Major US airlines are beginning to shrink their operations as they battle unrelenting increases in fuel prices, a weakening economy and a sharp decline in their share prices.Click here for full story

Open Skies May Result In Transatlantic Mergers
Last Updated: April 23, 2008
The next round of US/EU "open skies" talks set to start in May could lay the groundwork for trans-Atlantic airline mergers, but proponents of greater European involvement in US carriers must overcome hurdles in Washington.Click here for full story

Southwest Airlines Rethinks Operating Plans
Last Updated: April 23, 2008
Southwest Airlines is reconsidering some of its operating plans in the wake of maintenance lapses, including the pace of retiring older aircraft and outsourcing maintenance overseas, a newspaper reported on Monday.Click here for full story

Eight International Airlines Raise Fuel Surcharges To Europe
Last Updated: April 23, 2008
On Wednesday, March 19, Northwest Airlines and American Airlines raised their international fuel surcharges on flights to Europe by $20 roundtrip. "Currently, the fuel surcharges to Germany have increased from $170 to $190.Click here for full story

All The Major Airlines Have Raised Coast To Coast Airfares By $190 Roundtrip In Four Months
Last Updated: April 23, 2008
"In the past 24 hours, United Airlines, Delta Airlines, Northwest Airlines, US Airways, Continental Airlines and American Airlines have raised airfares again, adding up to as much as $190 roundtrip in airfare increases in just four short months," says Tom Parsons, CEO of BestFares.com.Click here for full story

FAA Plans New Safety Technology At LAX
Last Updated: April 22, 2008
Los Angeles International, the airport with the most near accidents and runway safety violations, will be getting new technology designed to prevent these problems.Click here for full story

European Union And Israel Discuss Open Skies Agreement
Last Updated: April 22, 2008
On Wednesday Israel and the European Union signed a preliminary agreement that would greatly ease restrictions on air travel between Israel and European states, Israel's transport ministry said.Click here for full story

AirTran Airways Imposes Second Checked Bag Fee
Last Updated: April 22, 2008
This morning AirTran Airways became the latest airline to introduce a fee to check a second bag, though the carrier plans to charge $10 compared with the $25 fee adopted by most legacy airlines. AirTran said it plans to assess the charge for travel beginning May 15, 1008.Click here for full story

British Airways Plans New Airline For US-Europe Route
Last Updated: April 22, 2008
British Airways plans to launch an airline serving the United States from continental Europe in June. In a nod to the historic agreement that makes an operation outside its home country possible, the new carrier is to be called OpenSkies. It will be run by industry stalwart and U.S.Click here for full story

Travelers Alert: Frontier Airlines Serves 70 Destinations, Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Last Updated: April 22, 2008
On April 10, 2008 Frontier Airlines filed for reorganization under chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Frontier took this action because their credit card processing company held back funds owed to Frontier for ticket sales.Click here for full story

United And Continental In Merger Talks
Last Updated: April 22, 2008
United Airlines and Continental Airlines are in the "very initial stages" of merger talks, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.Click here for full story

Want To Get Belligerent On A Flight? Be Ready To Serve Time
Last Updated: April 22, 2008
Ten months in prison is the sentence for an airline passenger who last June threatened the crew of a JetBlue flight. Jose Roman Jr., of Texas, became belligerent when flight crew members stopped serving him alcohol during a Houston-to-New York City flight.Click here for full story

JetBlue Airlines To Charge For Extra Legroom
Last Updated: April 22, 2008
JetBlue is going to charge passengers extra for more legroom as part of a plan to boost non-core revenue by 60 percent this year, according to the head of the low-cost carrier. Chief Executive David Barger said JetBlue, based in Forest Hills, N.Y.Click here for full story

Open Skies Treaty Brings More Changes To Heathrow Than Just Added Flights
Last Updated: April 22, 2008
With the opening of London Heathrow Airport's new terminal (T5), British Airways has moved the bulk (over 70%) of its flights into the new digs.Click here for full story

Delta Airlines To Charge For Second Checked Bag
Last Updated: April 22, 2008
Beginning in May, Delta Air Lines plans to join United Airlines and US Airways in charging passengers for a second checked bag, Delta president and CFO Ed Bastian told investors at a JP Morgan aviation conference in New York this morning.Click here for full story

As Fuel Costs Rise Airlines Look For Savings
Last Updated: April 22, 2008
The need for US airlines to control costs is greater than ever with losses creeping back onto balance sheets and shares slipping, but carriers are simply running out of fat to trim after years of restructuring. The main culprit undercutting profits is high fuel prices.Click here for full story

Delta Faces Antitrust Scrutiny On Proposed Merger
Last Updated: April 22, 2008
Delta Air Lines would face an unprecedented airline antitrust review if it decides to propose a merger with either Northwest Airlines or United Airlines parent UAL.Click here for full story

Mice On A Plane!
Last Updated: April 22, 2008
The United States, concerned about tainted imports from China, has exported its own batch of potentially harmful goods to Beijing in the form of mice on a flight from Washington, Chinese state media said on Tuesday.Click here for full story

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