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; [...]
Frontier Airlines announced new seasonal flights to their second non-stop destination between their low-fare hub of Denver to Alaska. Frontier will begin flights to Fairbanks, Alaska four times weekly on Airbus A319 aircraft between May and September.
This new Alaska service will complement current seasonal fligths Frontier operates between Denver and Anchorage. Also this week in [...]
US Airways launched two brand new destinations from their Charlotte hub this week. Daily service to both Honolulu, Hawaii and Rio de Janiero, Brazil began earlier this week.
The Hawaii service to Honolulu is the first ever from Charlotte and a break into the east-coast to Hawaii market for US Airways that has seen success with their [...]
For the first time, US Airways will connect their hub at Philadelphia Airport with the largest city in Alaska – Anchorage. The flights will be operated by Boeing 757 aircraft and will fly on a seasonal basis. The flights begin on June 1, 2010 and operate daily through September 7, 2010. This new service complements [...]
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 [...]
US Airways has announced that it will resume flight to Florida’s Space Coast connecting Melbourne, Florida with their primary hub at Charlotte, North Carolina. It has been twelve years since US Airways last served Melbourne Airport and the return is a welcome addition to service for the local community. The new flights will begin on [...]
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 [...]
US Airways has announced a number of efforts over coming months that will result in a realignment of flying focusing on its three major hubs as well as Washington DC National Airport. These changes will also result in the loss of about 1,000 jobs throughout the US Airways network. The changes are detailed as follows:
Focus [...]
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 [...]
Republic Airways, in an effort to retire the Boeing 717’s currently operated by their newly acquired Midwest Airlines, will purchase 10 Embraer 190’s from US Airways as that airline tries to unload about 25 of the 99-seat regional jets.
The acquisition of these 10 jets will give Republic Airways a total of 145 Embraer Regional Jets. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A New Mexico Judge upheld the states request to pull the state liquor license of US Airways following a drunk driving crash that killed six people in 2007. The judge determined that US Airways was under state jurisdiction and therefore is no longer permitted to serve alcohol on flights while the aircraft is over the [...]
