AirTran is trying to manage a story today about how a three-year-old and her parents were kicked off a flight because the girl was throwing a temper tantrum.
AirTran is arguing that the plane was already late, and in fairness to the other 112 passengers on the plane, they requested that the family get off the […]
In testimony today to the Senate committee reviewing airline consolidation, Dr. Mark Cooper, Director of Research for the publishers of Consumer Reports, summarized his speech saying:
“In sum, the antitrust authorities cannot approve mergers, like Delta-USAir or similar mergers and pretend that competition will protect consumers in the large number of markets that are presently […]
IAG Blog has some unique pictures of a Chinese 747 freighter with an engine in great need of repair.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Gordon Bethune has advised Delta creditors to pass on the latest US Airways bid to merge with Delta.
The report goes on to say that the Northwest-Delta merger is still looking promising, but that it would occur after both companies emerge alone from chapter 11 protection.
A senate committee will […]
The Beat is reporting that Travelport is considering a possible IPO for Orbitz including the other online assets of CheapTickets and eBookers.
Orbitz’s first IPO was back in the fall of 2003 when it was majority-held by the carriers.
Orbitz was purchased by Cendant in September 2003 for $1.25 billion.
In June, 2006 Orbitz became part of Blackstone […]
This morning Delta rolled
back 16,948 fares by $5 one-way and United rolled back 13,879.
Continental also pulled back 4,088 fares.
Last night Northwest reduced 8,007 fares by $5. US rolled back its
increase yesterday afternoon. American was the first to retreat
yesterday morning.
This round of increases of $5 one-way was started on Friday, January 19
by United.
Atlanta, GA (PRWeb) January 23, 2007 — A majority of industry watchers
predict Delta Air Lines will emerge from bankruptcy alone or merge with
Northwest Airlines. Few believe that US Airways’ hostile bid will
prevail, according to preliminary results of a poll conducted by The Air Travel Channel.
Industry watchers from influential blogs such as IAG Blog and Upgrade: […]
Tonight Northwest filed 8,007 fare reductions of $5 one-way, rolling back the majority of its earlier increases on Sunday.
This afternoon Delta scaled back on it’s earlier $5 increase (one-way), by filing 19,218 fare reductions.
US Airways also pulled back, filing 7,907 fare reductions of $5 (one-way)..
In this morning’s fare update, American filed 14,905 reductions of $5 one-way and United filed 8,033 reductions of $5.
Delta and Continental also tweaked their increases reducing 1,979 and 1,137 fares by $5 respectively.
United filed 19,095 increases on Friday so today’s rollback only represents about a 50% reduction. In the case of American, they filed 19,212 […]
