United States airline January traffic statistics as released by each carrier. The main statistics released on a monthly basis illustrate the carriers traffic illustrated here as a percentage increase or decrease from the same month one year earlier; carrier capacity illustrated here as a percentage increase of decrease from the same month one year earlier; [...]
Continental Airlines, based in Houston, has announced that on March 27, 2010, the airline will launch daily non-stop transatlantic service between their New York hub at Newark Liberty International Airport and Munich, Germany.
This service comes just after Continental is officially integrated into the Star Alliance and is further evidence of their full participation in the [...]
Although airline mergers are always percolating in the industry rumor mill, there has been a noticeable uptick in recent weeks as analysts talk about possible tie-ups. With the acquisition last year of Northwest Airlines by Delta Airlines looking like it should be a success, creating the world’s largest airline, and capacity still over-pacing demand, the [...]
September 2009 proved to be a good month for the nation’s airlines posting the best on-time rate in six years. Combined, the airlines achieved a 86.2 percent on-time rate with that percentage of flight arriving at their destination within 15 minutes of their scheduled time. The ratings and airline rankings are provided by the United [...]
The airlines continue to struggle to fill planes and keep fares high enough to make money. October saw low-cost airlines continue to post traffic and capacity increases with AirTran, Allegiant, and JetBlue the only carriers that grew in size and traffic.
Allegiant continues to grow at very strong rates. Allegiant Air is a low-cost model airline [...]
Houston based Continental Airlines starts three new non-stop markets from their Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport today in recognition and support of their new entry into the Star Alliance that occurred earlier this week.
The three new routes will better match Star Alliance partners Air Canada, United and Lufthansa. Continental will augment connecting possibilities with Air [...]
Continental Airlines, just inducted into the Star Alliance yesterday, has announced that they have signed alliances with two Asian airlines that are also Star Alliance members. The new alliances with Asiana of South Korea and ANA of Japan will commence in 2010.
The new alliances will include full partnership benefits such as code-sharing, frequent-flyer benefits, operational [...]
Continental Airlines officially leaves SkyTeam and becomes a member of the Star Alliance today joining United Airlines, US Airways and other International carriers including Lufthansa.
By landing in the Star Alliance Continental will bring a much needed emphasis on two markets for that global airline alliance. Many have said for some time that the Star Alliance [...]
The third quarter had few surprises with the smaller, low-cost centric airlines posting profits, and the bigger guys posting losses. Some of the losses were smaller than expected, and some were rather large and foreboding.
WINNERS
Alaska – Net Income $83 million
Hawaiian – Net Income $31 million
Frontier – Net Income $16 million (consolidated July/August only)
JetBlue – Net [...]
Continental Airlines announced today an expansion of their Hawaii service. The airline will add new service between Los Angeles and Maui and between Orange County and Honolulu. Also, the airline will expand the Los Angeles to Honolulu service with a second daily non-stop flight.
The new flights will all be operated with Next Generation 737’s and [...]
Below is a recap of U.S. airlines September operational performance. There was a delay since Southwest did not release their figures until this morning.
AirTran – Capacity up 7.2%; Traffic up 11.0%; Load Factor 77.0%
Alaska – Capcity down 1.4%; Traffic up 1.4%; Load Factor 77.9%
Allegiant – Capacity up 50.2%; Traffic up 46.1%; Load Factor 85.2%
American – [...]
The Depart of Transportation has released the August 2009 on-time report for U.S. airlines. The rankings are as follows:
Hawaiian – 94.7%
Alaska – 85.8%
SkyWest – 84.4%
Frontier – 83.8%
ExpressJet – 83.4%
Southwest – 82.8%
Continental – 82.4%
US Airways 81.4%
United – 80.1%
American Eagle – 79.6%
Mesa – 79.2%
Pinnacle – 79.2%
Delta – 78.6%
American – 77.2%
JetBlue – 76.0%
Northwest – 74.4%
AirTran – 74.2%
Atlantic Southeast [...]
Now that the U.S. SkyTeam partner has changed with the Delta Airlines acquisition of Northwest Airlines last year, we thought it would be good to take a look at the current make-up of the SkyTeam airline alliance. No longer a Northwest/KLM venture, SkyTeam has been changing as the face of the global airline industry has [...]
American Airlines, aware of the Delta Airlines possible investment and tie-up with Japan Airlines, has entered the equation. American is in talks now with JAL on a possible minority stake in the airline to give JAL much needed cash. This is similar to the deal announced Friday that Delta is working on with JAL. The [...]
Here are some key numbers from US Airlines posted performance for August 2009…
AirTran – Capacity down 3.4%; Traffic down 6.1%; Load Factor 84.9%
Alaska – Capacity down 2.9%; Traffic down 0.8%; Load Factor 84.3%
Allegiant – Capacity up 50.9%; Traffic up 45.8%; Load Factor 90.2%
American – Capacity down 9.4%; Traffic down 8.1%; Load Factor 84.7%
Continental – Capacity [...]
In another effort to better coordinate with Star Alliance partners operations as it enters the airline consortium later this year, Continental Airlines has announced new flight service to Washington Dulles International Airport from both the Houston and Cleveland hubs for the airline.
This move will allow Continental passengers better access to United and Lufthansa flights operated [...]
Delta Connection carrier Mesaba was blamed by the Department of Transportation initial findings as the airline to blame for ExpressJet’s Continental Express flight that suffered a 6-hour tarmac delay last week in Rochester, MN.
The report stated that the ExpressJet captain made repeated efforts to obtain assistance from the Mesaba ground personnel that refused to service [...]
