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• Airline Finance News - North America

  - 2008-10-13

  Oct 13, 2008 U.S. carriers are going deeper than expected, according to OAG, and 33 airports around the country are expected to lose commercial service altogether. "The scale of the decline in the U.S. market is worse than the previous schedule analysis showed, with airlines taking 265,000 flights out...

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• Airline Finance News - North America

  - 2008-09-08

  Sep 8, 2008 Safety Compliance Gaps Noted For Some US Airlines. Three major airlines were among 11 US carriers that failed during an unprecedented industry review to demonstrate full compliance with government safety directives, regulators said on Friday. The Federal Aviation Administration did not disclose the carriers or their...

  Tags: American Airlines, carrier, Continental Airlines Inc., finance, Midwest, Republic, Southwest Airlines Co., United Airlines

• Airline Finance News - North America

  - 2008-09-01

  Sep 1, 2008 Air Canada Air Canada and Jazz flew a combined 5.02 billion RPMs in July, down 0.6% year-over-year, against a 2% fall in capacity to 6.05 billion ASMs. Load factor rose 1.2 points to 83%. Aug 28, 2008 American Airlines American, British Airways and...

  Tags: carrier, Delta Air Lines Inc., FINANCE, Investment, Midwest, Northwest Airlines Corp., Southwest Airlines Co., United Airlines

• Southwest to trim 190 flights this winter

  - 2008-08-27

  DALLAS -- Southwest Airlines Co., which had resisted the kinds of capacity cuts being made by other carriers, will eliminate nearly 200 flights early next year as it struggles with high fuel costs and a weakening economy. The move raised doubts about the company's publicly stated goal of...

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• Airline Finance News - North America

  - 2008-07-14

  7/14/2008 US airlines asked customers on Thursday to lobby Congress on legislation to curb speculation in energy markets, which carriers blame for a 50 percent jump in fuel costs this year. Skyrocketing fuel prices have forced airlines to slash jobs and capacity, raise fares, retire planes and introduce luggage...

  Tags: American Airlines, carrier, Continental Airlines Inc., Delta Air Lines Inc., finance, Frontier, job, Manufacturing, Midwest, Northwest Airlines Corp., RPM, Southwest Airlines Co., United Airlines, US Airways Group Inc.

• Company Watch - Southwest Airlines

  - 2008-06-30

  6/30/2008 Southwest Airlines is adding service in high-demand markets to take advantage of other carriers' capacity cuts. The carrier's fuel-hedging program is allowing it to pay less for fuel than most of its rivals. "We are trimming our flight schedule, frequently and continually, of unproductive flights, while we continue...

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• Airline Finance News - North America

  - 2008-06-23

  Jun 23, 2008 The political debate over energy policy gained sharper partisan focus this week as President George W. Bush lined up with Republican presidential candidate John McCain in calling for more oil and gas exploration off the U.S. coasts and in oil-shale regions of the West. Democrats, meanwhile,...

  Tags: aircraft, AirTran, alliance, carrier, Continental Airlines Inc., Delta Air Lines Inc., finance, RPM, Southwest Airlines Co., United Airlines, Virgin

• Airline Finance News - North America

  - 2008-04-21

  Apr 21, 2008 Airlines are permitted to self-report compliance through an US Federal Aviation Administration system, the reliability of which has been questioned in the past. It crunches data, tracks trends, and helps to identify risks and safety priorities. Airline self-reporting underpins much of FAA oversight, and the agency...

  Tags: American Airlines, carrier, Continental Airlines Inc., Delta, Delta Air Lines Inc., FINANCE, Frontier, Investment, merger, Northwest Airlines Corp., Seniority, Southwest Airlines Co.

• FAA Air Carrier Audits Criticized at Senate Hearing

  - 2008-04-14

  The Federal Aviation Administration FAA was subjected to a fresh salvo of stinging criticism in the wake of revelations that an FAA supervisor in the Dallas field office intentionally ignored missed maintenance inspections at Southwest Airlines. The central FAA employee in the matter was relieved of...

  Tags: audit, carrier, FAA, Southwest Airlines Co., U.S. Senate

• Air travelers pay for tougher safety policies

  - 2008-04-11

  WASHINGTON -- The air travel misery will probably get worse. Massive flight cancellations by American Airlines are likely to spread to other carriers as federal regulators step up their scrutiny of aircraft inspections after years of more lenient enforcement. As oversight tightens and Congress...

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