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 [...]
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 [...]
American Airlines has announced the closing of a maintenance facility in Kansas City, Missouri that it acquired with other assets in the TWA bankruptcy liquidation.
The closing of the base is to better match maintenance facilities with fleet size as the American fleet is shrinking as are other network airlines. The American Airlines fleet is now [...]
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 [...]
Southwest Airlines, on the heels of American Airlines reductions in St. Louis, has announced new service there. Southwest will add nine daily flights to six new destinations from St. Louis. The new flights will begin in May and will be available for sale sometime this December.
The new St. Louis flights include:
Two daily flights to/from Nashville, [...]
American Airlines is under more pressure from FAA investigators who continue to look into fuselage issues with the large fleet of AA’s MD-80 series aircraft.
Newspapers reported an incident in which an American Airlines MD-80 was found to be in such poor condition that it was not permitted to fly its scheduled flight and was ferried [...]
American Airlines, seeing a threat from both JetBlue and AirTran, has announced the addition of Washington Dulles flights to and from San Juan, Puerto Rico. This service used to operate before cutbacks at San Juan for American. The new service will launch on November 19 and operate daily using Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
JetBlue recently launched daily [...]
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 – [...]
Japan Airlines has decided to put current discussions about investment and cooperation with Delta Airlines and American Airlines on hold. JAL is struggling to implement an aggressive but much needed restructuring to stave off continuing record breaking losses.
This is good news for American Airlines and the Oneworld airline alliance as it keeps JAL in their [...]
Mexicana Airlines of Mexico said today that they intend to join the Oneworld global airline alliance this November. Oneworld currently does not have a Mexican airline partner but features British Airways and American Airlines. Iberia Airlines of Spain was the sponsor airline for Mexicana to join Oneworld.
The other large carrier in Mexico, AeroMexico, is a [...]
The stakes just got raised in the Japan Airlines partner negotiations. Until now, it was Delta Airlines, the world’s largest, combined with fellow SkyTeam partners Air France/KLM that seemed to hold many of the cards in their quest to get JAL to jump ship from OneWorld and join SkyTeam. But now, American, for a while [...]
Aimed at improving their balance sheet moving forward, American Airlines has announced a number of actions designed to improve operational efficiency, maximize revenue, and inject much needed cash into their operation.
Brought in $1 Billion in cash from Citibank in a deal where the bank paid in advance for AAdvantage Frequent Flyer Miles to be used [...]
Since the announcement earlier today that Air France/KLM were working with Delta on a possible investment in Japan Airlines, it was expected that British Airways would join their OneWorld partner American Airlines to try to sweeten their offer to attempt to keep JAL in OneWorld.
It is possible, if the Delta & Air France/KLM offer of [...]
Joining the talks with Japan Airlines about possible cash infusion, stake buying and code-sharing, Air France/KLM have upped the ante. The European airline group is looking to also infuse much needed cash into Japan Airlines in return for a stake of the company as well as an agreement to coordinate through code-share and SkyTeam alliance [...]
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 [...]
American Airlines continues to be investigated by the FAA over potential improper maintenance of their fleet of 244 MD-80 aircraft that makes up nearly 50% of American’s fleet. You probably remember this going on for some time with very damaging groundings of MD-80’s for American and other airlines late last year.
American is also being investigated [...]
