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on July 29, 2010
German flagship airline Deutsche Lufthansa AG recently predicted its 2010 operating profits to increase based on second quarter gains that have gone beyond market expectations. Despite higher fuel cos...
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on July 28, 2010
Manifesting the improving economic conditions of airlines, domestic fares have seen a 4.7% rise that reached its highest for a nine-year period. This was announced recently by the Department of Transp...
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on July 28, 2010
Southwest Airlines - the biggest passenger carrier within the United States - recently surprised analysts with their second quarter profits at $112 million, up by 23% from last year. This reflects a $...
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on May 3, 2010
Well after what amounted to a week-long hiatus from publishing this blog, I'm back. And I picked the right time... Because today, United and Continental announced their long rumored merger. This w...
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on April 26, 2010
Today American Airlines announced that their highly anticipated Chicago- O';hare- Beijing non-stop route was being postponed. In the official directive posted on their website, they cited a lack o...
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on April 21, 2010
Well today, American Airlines' holding company AMR announced its financial results for 2010's first quarter. Now while American made plenty of strides in the past year: such as keeping Japan A...
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on April 19, 2010
Well JetBlue seems to be feeling left out by all the merger talk, because they decided to announce a couple of new routes. Most airlines generally add new routes earlier in April or in late March, whe...
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on April 19, 2010
Anyway, so this guy named Shashank Nigam, who writes the SimplFlying Blog, has set up a really cool forum for ideas. The process is known as a Twebinar. What is a Twebinar? Well in the words of Shasha...
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on April 17, 2010
After all the strikes that shut down European airlines in the past few weeks, you'd think Mother Nature would have the sense not to kick somebody while they're down. But apparently the Eyjafja...
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on April 15, 2010
Well guess what, United and Continental are now merging. Gee, who could have seen this coming. Well, as you know, I just sent a letter to the Wall Street Journal supporting US/UA, so that is pie on my...
