Delta Airlines has received two doses of bad news in the last couple of days. First, Japan Airlines decided to stick with an alliance with American rather than switch to one with Delta on Monday, and then just yesterday, the Department of Transportation made a ruling on the Delta proposed slot-swap deal with US Airways. [...]
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; [...]
Delta Airlines has announced new non-stop service to Grand Cayman of the Cayman Islands will commence on June 12. The airline will offer once-weekly Saturday flights between the two cities on Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
This new service to the Cayman Islands compliments Delta Airlines current Cayman service out of their hub in Atlanta.
Reports from Japan are that the leadership of Japan Airlines has decided to stick with their One World Alliance instead of jumping ship and joining SkyTeam. This is an enormous coup for American Airlines, a founding airline partner of One World. However, it is a disappointment for SkyTeam member and world’s largest airline Delta Airlines.
Both [...]
Can you say KARMA? The long awaited bankruptcy of Mesa Airlines appears to be here as Jonathan Ornstein’s airline has been forced into Chapter 11. The filing this morning is reported to allow Mesa the ability to restructure debts as well as shed unused aircraft without financial obligations.
Mesa says that the bankruptcy will not affect [...]
Delta Airlines, the world’s largest carrier, was granted permission yesterday by the Federal Aviation Administration to operate the two carriers – Delta Airlines and acquired Northwest Airlines – as one, single airline. This involved the FAA granting Delta Airlines a single operating certificate to use for both carriers.
Delta plans to make some of the internal [...]
Delta Airlines and it’s global airline alliance SkyTeam have offered an aid package of $1 billion to struggling Japan Airlines, JAL. Immediately, though, current OneWorld partner with JAL, American Airlines, said that together with other OneWorld partners British Airways and Iberia, they would top that offer of aid hoping to convince JAL to stick with [...]
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 [...]
United Airlines has let an agreement for regional flying with Mesa to expire resulting in yet another blow to the beleagured regional airline. United Airlines will no longer utilize 26 CRJ-200 50-passenger regional jets operated by Mesa Airlines for their connection service by April 2010.
Bad news continues to work against Mesa Airlines. It seems their string of [...]
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 [...]
Delta Airlines has suspended a group of Pilots for two incidents in two days that occurred near the end of their respective flights.
The first incident was with a Delta Airlines Boeing 767 arriving in Atlanta from Rio de Janeiro in the pre-dawn hours. The pilots were cleared for a normal landing on the usual 27R [...]
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 [...]
Delta Airlines has announced schedule changes for next summer that will increase cooperation with Air France/KLM, Alaska Airlines and capitalize on additional synergies with former Northwest Airlines that it acquired last fall.
This summer schedule and changes is the first fully combined schedule since merging with Northwest Airlines. The new routes will be trans-Pacific, trans-Atlantic & Africa. [...]
Mokulele, owned by Republic Airways and go!, owned by Mesa Airlines joined forces today to cooperate but operate both Hawaiian inter-island carriers as one entity, but under both brand names. Some details of the deal are still uncertain, but the terms include Mesa owning 75% of the combined carrier and Republic owning 25%.
This comes after go! [...]
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 [...]
