Alaska Air Group -– the parent company of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air –- today reported a net third-quarter profit of $85.8 million ($2.11 per share). The company credited lower costs, higher occupancy and fuel hedges, The Associated Press reports....
That's the headline from a story today in the Times of London. The newspaper writes British Airways "is backing down on controversial charges for second bags and extra bag weight introduced in February, reducing the cost of taking an extra...
Starting Feb. 13, United will add nonstop service from its Los Angeles hub to both Austin, Texas, and Des Moines, Iowa. United Express affiliate SkyWest will fly one daily round-trip flight on both routes using 66-seat Canadair CRJ-700 regional jets....
US Airways reported today a third-quarter profit of $177 million ($1.87 per share) this morning. The company lost $78 million (88 cents per share) during the same quarter a year ago. US Airways' profit topped most Wall Street expectations as...
Officials at the nation's priciest big airport appear ready to reach out to JetBlue in the hopes of bringing down fares. JetBlue just announced plans to pull out of another Ohio market, saying it would end service to Columbus on...
Singapore Airlines completed its first commercial A380 flight this morning "with 455 passengers, some of them ensconsed in luxury suites and double beds," The Associated Press reports. The seven-hour flight –- appropriately numbered Singapore Airlines Flight 380 -– went from...
From USA TODAY reporter Roger Yu's Airport Check-in column: "Los Angeles International will begin using smaller buses in December for its FlyAway program, a public transportation system that links the airport to three stations in Southern California. The larger buses...
United yesterday reported a profit of $334 million ($2.21 a share) for the July-through-September quarter, surging nearly 76% from the same quarter a year ago "thanks largely to pared-down costs, reduced capacity and a boost in passenger revenue at United,"...
United said during its third-quarter earnings call (see above) that it will continue to ramp up international operations in 2008. Could that mean overseas routes for the carrier's Denver hub? A story in today's Denver Post seems to raise that...
Does JetBlue's dropped cities hint at a problem? Is US Airways ever going to improve? What's the latest with Skybus? Did Skybus factor in JetBlue's decision to leave Columbus? How's Delta's New York expansion going? The answer from last week's...
JetBlue reported a third-quarter profit yesterday of $23 million (12 cents a share), a number that handily beat Wall Street expectations. The Associated Press says the result was JetBlue's "first third-quarter profit in two years" and comes as both "capacity...
JetBlue will end service to Columbus, Ohio, and Nashville on Jan. 6, dropping service to those cities just more than a year after it began flying to them. "The New York-based low-cost carrier made the decision after a detailed review...
From USA TODAY reporter Roger Yu's Airport Check-in column: "Ted Stevens Anchorage International closed its nine-gate Concourse B in the South Terminal last week for a renovation project that will take two years. Several flights by Northwest and Alaska Airlines...
That's the headine from a story in today's Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, which writes about the latest expansion of its hometown carrier Skybus. The Dispatch writes: "Greensboro put out the welcome mat for Skybus Airlines yesterday, as the Columbus-based startup named...
