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No easy task
Squeezed by their major partners and by rising costs, US regional airlines have tried investing in new ventures at home and abroad with mixed results, but...
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Business: Good Week - Bad Week
Spirit airlines The Florida-based low-cost carrier may be struggling, but it maintains a record of innovation. First it beat US rivals to charge for checked...
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Fuel prices recede but the gloom still lingers
The mid-year predictions that the beginning of the winter season would prove a period of reckoning for the airline industry appear to be coming true. Although...
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JetBlue debuts new terminal
JetBlue Airways today unveiled its new $875 million terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Features of the 26-gate facility include 40...
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Ryanair versus the Screenscrapers
Carriers are starting to fight back against travel sales sites that scrape their fare data and display it themselves
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KC-X contest collapse hits TSAT system
The collapse of the US Air Force's KC-X tanker competition has had an impact on the service's transformational satellite communications system (TSAT), with...
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What has gone wrong at Austrian Airlines?
Air-France-KLM, Lufthansa and Russia's S7 airlines are all in the running to acquire a stake in troubled Austrian Airlines
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Malta's resurgent travel market
In the past two years the Maltese market has boomed, fuelled by a resurgent Air Malta and the arrival of low-cost carriers Often overshadowed by faster...
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Ryanair sees Aer Lingus takeover boosted by Europe consolidation moves
Consolidation spurs Ryanair ambitions The recent rush of airline merger and acquisition activity in the region is prompting Ryanair to step up its...
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Where have all the banks gone?
As the crisis in the world's financial markets unfolds, funds are starting to dry up and are coming from fewer sources The market is set to go through...
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Several airport terminals are opening in the US just as traffic dwindles
US carriers will see four new airport terminals open this autumn in the midst of the worst airline downturn in recent history
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Digging up weeds
While no one wants a return to $150-a-barrel oil, the strong are relishing what a combination of high fuel prices and falling demand will do to market competition,...
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Udvar-Hazy ILFC buy-out reported amid turmoil at AIG
The fall-out from last week's financial turmoil has struck home at the world's largest aircraft lessor International Lease Finance after the US government...
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Is loyalty a luxury?
Even in times of harsh cost pressure, airlines are well advised to continue to invest in gaining the loyalty of their best customers, argues Ravindra Bhagwanani,...
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China Eastern ownership saga continues
The saga regarding the future ownership of China Eastern Airlines, China's third largest carrier, continues to play out, as government officials are looking...
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Airport IT trends 2008
It has taken a long time, but advances in making the traveller's journey through the airport less painful are being made, according to the latest Airport...