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- Starbucks Revamps Brewing as More Stores Close
- Barista-in-Chief Howard Schultz has long complained about how Starbucks gave up the "theater" and romance of the coffee house experience as it expanded globally. Now the company is trying to get some of that back, even as it shuts the door on 600 stores, which is 500 more than it...
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- Down on the Farm, Things May Be Looking Up -- A Little
- Last week's Beige Book report from the Federal Reserve had some modestly upbeat news for the farm industry -- fuel and fertilizer costs are falling, and that's making it easier for growers to get financing. Still, problems remain, particularly for Midwest livestock producers, who are faced with...
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- Boeing to Cut 777 Production in 2010
- As predicted, Boeing this week announced a 29-percent cut in production of its 777 widebody jets for next year. Starting next June, Boeing will cut back the pace of 777 deliveries, from seven to five a month. The company also says it has scrapped plans to pick up the pace...
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- Changes Brewing for Tully's, Seattle's "Other" Coffee Chain
- Seattle-based Tully's Coffee has completed the sale of its brand and its wholesale coffee business to Green Mountain Roasters of Vermont, a deal one coffee insider says could make Green Mountain the No. 2 national coffee company behind Starbucks. Insiders expect the $40.3 million deal -- which...
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- Volcano Continues to Disrupt Alaskan Travel
- Alaska Airlines says it's evaluating whether it's safe to fly into Anchorage after Mount Redoubt erupted again overnight. The airline had resumed flights to Anchorage on Wednesday, after the volcano's first eruptions in 20 years burped ash into the sky. But then the eruptions resumed Thursday and...
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- 787 Probably Will Fly by End of June
- Boeing is sticking to its assertion that its long-delayed 787 will take its first flight before the end of the second quarter. That news is attracting Bronx cheers from some quarters of the blogosphere, which after two years of delays is taking anything the company has to say about the...
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- A Few Silver Linings but Many Black Holes in Airline Report
- You can't accuse the International Air Transportation Association of trying to sugar-coat the situation, not after it slapped a title of "Grim Prospects" on its most-recent projections for the global airline industry. You probably saw the headlines from the report, which projects worldwide losses of $4.7 billion...
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- Report Shows Farm Incomes Down in Early '09
- Foreign demand for U.S. farm products -- particularly peanuts -- is down, and that's hurting American farm incomes, according to the Federal Reserve. The Fed, when Chairman Ben Bernanke isn't slamming the phone in outrage over AIG bailouts, tracks all phases of the U.S. economy, including agriculture....
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- CSeries: Once Was Lost, Now is Found
- In case you missed it, Lufthansa today confirmed its long-anticipated launch order for Bombardier's CSeries jets, with a firm order for 30 of them. The deal was given a list price of US $1.53 billion, but it's far more likely the actual price was right around $1...
- Blog posts 2009-03-11
- Boeing Holds to Production Targets as Airlines Idle More Jets
- Boeing Commercial Airplanes chief Scott Carson doggedly insists his company won't have to cut production this year. Boeing's customers have financing lined up to pay for all new jet deliveries planned for this year and into 2010, Carson said Tuesday, speaking at an investor conference in...
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- Allegiant, Horizon Explore Suburban Seattle Service
- As Brett Snyder noted recently, Allegiant Air is looking to expand, and according to local reports, one of the next routes it's likely to add is service between Las Vegas and Everett, Wash., some 30 miles north of Seattle. Allegiant and Alaska Air Group subsidiary Horizon Air...
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- Green Coffee at Starbucks?
- Starbucks aims to have fully recyclable paper cups available by 2012, and has opened its first LEED-certified store. Those are two of the highlights from the company's new corporate social responsibility report, which became available online Monday. Among the others: ...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Flyers Sour on Alaska's Checked-Bag Fee
- Alaska Airlines announced last week it will start charging each passenger $15 for their first checked bag, a move that's not sitting well with frequent passengers of the Seattle-based airline. Alaska was slow to adopt checked-bag fees, and it announced the move after reporting a quarterly loss...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Ooops, He Did It Again
- Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary was back last week, insisting that he was serious about that pay-toilet plan he first floated a couple months ago. Not only that, but O'Leary said his airline might just rip out some lavatories altogether, and replace them with extra seats. "We are...
- Blog posts 2009-06-07
- United Looks at Major Jet Purchase
- United Airlines parent company UAL is in the market for up to 150 new jets and could place an order for them by this fall. This is a HUGE development in the aerospace business. According to a letter to employees from United CEO Glen Tilton, UAL's looking...
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- Jets Could Fly on Green Fuel in 2010
- Bio-fuels made from a range of non-food plants could be powering commercial airliners as soon as next year, a Boeing executive says. [caption id="attachment_2192" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Camelina growing in a Montana field."][/caption] "We've proven the technical capability of biofuel as a drop-in replacement," says Bill...
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- The $9 Airline
- You probably saw something about this: The founder of the recently deceased SkyBus airlines has launched a new venture: JetAmerica. And where SkyBus tried to make a name for itself with tickets as low as $10, Jet America is going to do that one better, with tickets as low as...
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- The Future of First Class
- With passenger numbers in a free-fall, some notable global carriers -- like Qantas -- are cutting back on their first-class seating options. [caption id="attachment_2090" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Premium seating on an Emirates 777."][/caption] But today's New York Times also reports that some airlines are...
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- Boeing Executive: More Regulations Please
- If you listen to talk radio, or to certain oil-state Republicans, or even other bloggers here on BNet.com, you'll hear that the carbon cap-and-trade program that cleared a House Energy and Commerce Committee vote Tuesday is bad for America, bad for our economy, and certainly bad for business. ...
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- Alaska Airlines Settles Pay for Pilots, Execs
- The union for Alaska Airlines' pilots has approved a contract that restores much of the pay cuts imposed on them in 2005, thus ending a long and often-contentious bargaining process. Separately, shareholders of the airline's parent company have approved the pay structure for senior executives in one of corporate America's early "say...
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
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