By RANDOLPH HEASTER The Kansas City Star Besides the former TWA overhaul base near KCI, American has maintenance hubs in Tulsa, Okla., and Fort Worth, Texas, plus many smaller U.S. bases. American Airlines will cut 1,500 jobs in its maintenance division as part of the 6,800 job cuts it announced two weeks ago. It was […]
by Christopher Elliott The airlines need you. In an open letter to customers published late yesterday, the chief executives of 12 domestic airlines urged customers to help them stop the oil speculation and bring fuel prices under control. It sounds like a reasonable request. Until you consider who’s making it. Here’s what the airlines say […]
Question – what is the similarity between the Manchester United football club, the Scuderia Ferrari F1 team, the New Zealand yachting team for the Americas’ Cup and the Dubai Tennis Open? They’re all sponsored by airline companies. What makes this little factoid even more interesting is that all of the airlines in question are Asian. […]
US airlines on-time performance falls to its lowest level since February. Cancellations spike. Summer air travel plagued by higher fares, higher fees, and poor on-time arrival performance. Asian airports continue to set the standard for on-time performance. Portland, OR (PRWEB) July 8, 2008 — FlightStats today released its June 2008 airline and airport on-time arrival […]
(One reason not to plan on flying into Athens on the day of your international flight)Some 150 passengers due to fly to Thessaloniki were stranded at Athens International Airport yesterday after their Olympic Airlines flight was grounded due to technical problems. Passengers complained that they waited more than two hours before being informed their flight […]
BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) – The Court of First Instance (CFI), the European Union (EU)’s second-highest court, has annulled a European Commission request for Greece to recover state aid from Olympic Airways – Services SA. The court annulled a decision by the Commission that aid granted to Olympic, for losses connected with the terrorist attacks of […]
Travellers keen on less-crowded flights should look closely at airline timetables, writes John Burfitt. It is a sight most travellers know only too well as they arrive on a plane, and no matter which way you look at it, it is not pretty. Or for that matter, very comfortable either. A full economy section on […]