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; [...]
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 [...]
Air Canada has announced new flight service connecting Western Canadian city Calgary, Alberta and Tokyo Narita Airport in Japan.
The new flights will commence on March 27, 2010 and will be operated on 211-seat Boeing 767-300 ER aircraft. Air Canada also will focus on connections in Tokyo to a number of Star Alliance partner airline flights [...]
United Airlines just last week cancelled an agreement for regional flying under the United Express brand with Mesa Airlines ending flying with that regional carrier for 20 plus regional jets. Now, this week, United has announced a new regional flying partnership with ExpressJet, a much more efficient and ethical operation than Mesa.
ExpressJet will operate 22 [...]
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 [...]
Untied Airlines today announced the early 2010 start of new flights from its hub at Chicago O’Hare International Airport to four new cities in the mid-west. United is adding Muskegon, Michigan; Paducah, Kentucky; Eau Claire, Wisconsin; and Hancock/Houghton, Michigan to their route network. These new flights will be operated by United Airlines regional partner SkyWest [...]
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 [...]
United Airlines, already serving Brussels, Belgium from their hub at Washington Dulles International Airport, will add a daily flight beginning March 28, 2010 from Chicago O’Hare.
The Brussels flight is time to connect well with Brussels Airlines, a new Star Alliance member after being acquired by Star Alliance founding member Lufthansa. Connections are available in Brussels [...]
United Airlines has announced a spring International expansion into three new countries. United will fly non-stop between Washington Dulles Airport, their east coast hub, and Accra in the western African nation of Ghana. From there, the Boeing 767 will fly on to Lagos, Nigeria. The return flight to Washington Dulles will stop again in Accra, [...]
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 [...]
Today United Airlines flew the last of its Boeing 737’s into retirement. In the last year, United Airlines has grounded and moth-balled all 94 of their Boeing 737’s – once a staple of their fleet. The aircraft will be stripped down at a San Francisco maintenance hangar and then shipped for storage to the desert.
United [...]
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 [...]
United Airlines has announced the addition of one-daily round-trip flight between San Francisco and St. Louis. American Airlines announced last month that they would substantially dismantle the remnants of the TWA St. Louis hub that it acquired years ago leaving many key destinations without non-stop service.
Just yesterday, Southwest announced an addition of flights to various [...]
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 [...]
TAM Airlines of Brazil today was inducted into the Star Alliance adding to existing members like United Airlines, US Airways, Lufthansa and their family of airline partners. Just last week, TAM entered into frequent flyer cooperation with Lufthansa owned bmi and Austrian Airlines in an effort to expand cooperation and integration with the global airline [...]
