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Industry Links |
| 05.31.02 |
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US
Airways to Revive, Rename Potomac Air [Associated Press]
•
Aer
Lingus Dispute Escalates [Reuters UK]
•
Airlines
Secure but Slump Deep-Official [Reuters]
•
BA
Targets Business Class in Wake of Slump [Budapest Sun]
•
Aeroflot
Meeting Sides with the State [The St. Petersburg Times]
• UAL
Flight Attendants Win $48 Mln in Arbitration [Reuters]
•
Qantas
Still Keen on Stake in Air NZ [The Canberra Times]
•
American
Express Launches Corporate Travel Venture in China [FinancialTimes]
•
In-flight
Meals for All to See [CNN]
•
Growing
Number of Travelers Ship Their Luggage [USA Today]
•
New
Offer to Halt Aeromexico Strike? [Airwise News] |
| 05.29.02 |
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Labor
Dispute to Halt Most Aer Lingus Flights [New York Times]
•
Plan
Sharply Tightens Airport Screening [New York Times]
•
JetBlue
Flights to Link Oakland, Long Beach California [San Francisco
Chronicle]
•
Videoconferencing
Eliminates Many Routine Trips [Washington Post]
•
City
Council OKs Land Purchase for O'Hare Expansion [Chicago
Tribune]
• United
Air CEO Sees Replacement Soon [Reuters]
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Airlines
Do the Bump More Often, But Fliers Cashing In [USA Today]
•
US
Airways Chief: Sacrifice to Survive [MSNBC]
•
Qantas
May Buy Air New Zealand Stake [CNN Europe]
•
Report:
Government to Give Cash to Airlines that Start New Services
to Malaysia
[AP] |
| 05.28.02 |
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Aviation
Industry Agrees on Uniform Safety Code [Dow Jones Newswire]
•
FAA
to Test Smart Cards [MSNBC]
•
Wide
Range of Possibilities in China Airlines Crash [Air Transport
World]
•
Leblanc
launches another no-frills airline in Canada
[Air Transport World]
•
Pilot
Strike Grounds Aer Lingus [BBC]
• Delta
Airlines Deal with Taiwan CAL Postponed [Fox News]
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Taiwan
Crash Revives China Air Privatisation [Financial Times]
•
Vanguard
Airline's Loan Request Rejected [Associated Press]
•
Disney
World Hotel Workers Strike [Associated Press]
•
Air
New Zealand Cuts the Frills [Airwise News]
•
Air
France Posts €153m Advance [Financial Times]
•
Expedia
Hopes to Woo One-Stop Shoppers [CNET] |
| 05.28.02 |
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Crash
is Fresh Blow for Taiwan Airline [Reuters UK]
•
Crisis
Deepens at China Airlines [BBC]
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US
Investigators Join Probe of China Airlines Crash [Voice
of America News]
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US
Airways Labor: 'Airline Wants Too High' [Associated Press]
•
FAA
Tries to Reduce Airline Delays [Associated Press]
• Security
Upgrades Strain Airports' Space, Budgets [USA Today]
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U.S.
Warns Against Travel to India, Pakistan [Reuters]
•
Government
Paying Bonuses to Airport Screeners [USA Today]
•
Spain's
Iberia Adds Three Flights a Week to New York [Reuters]
•
Loan
Guarantee Program Status Unclear [Air Transport World]
•
Face
Recognition Kit Fails in Florida Airport [The Register]
•
Jet
Firm Veteran to Launch Discount Airline in Eastern Canada
[Toronto Globe and Mail]
•
One-Day
Strike Looms As Ireland's Troubled Airline Suspends Pilots
[AP] |
| 05.27.02 |
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US
Airways Wants Pilots to Absorb $595 Mln in Cuts-Wall Street
Journal [Reuters/iwon]
•
Continental
Holding Talks on a Link to US Airways [New York Times]
•
Cops:
New Orleans Airport Shooter Acted Alone [CBS News]
[Air Transport World]
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Cathay
to Restore Flights, Bring Back Grounded Planes
[Bloomberg News]
•
Incheon
Int'l Airport to Become Hub for N.E. Asian Air Traffic
[Korea Herald]
• INTERVIEW-Swiss
Airline Says Oneworld Sole Option Now [Reuters]
•
US
Airways Rejects Planned Delay in US Loan Program [Reuters]
•
World
Airlines Welcome Ruling Not to Arm Pilots [Reuters]
•
ATS:
Long Distance Air Travel May Cause Blood Clots [Doctor's
Guide] |
| 05.23.02 |
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Carriers
Balance Supply and Returning Demand [Financial Times]
•
Fierce
Battle for Air Dominance [Financial Times]
•
American
Airlines Wants Changes in Staff Screening at Airports
[Air Transport World]
•
Firecrackers
Found on United Airlines Jet in HK
[Reuters]
•
Boeing
CEO Says Air Travel Facing a Long Trip Back to Health
[AP]
• High-Security
Cockpit Doors Approved by EU [AP]
•
New
Low-Cost Airline to Be Launched in France [Les Echos]
•
A
Secret Service For Safer Skies [International Herald Tribune]
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Some
Still Support Guns in Cockpits [MSNBC]
•
American
Airlines Urges Standardized Screening Process for Airline
Flight Crews [PR Newswire]
• Airport
Executives Want Congress to Push Back Baggage Screening Deadline
[PR Newswire]
• National
Airlines to Begin New Service to Seattle-Tacoma International
Airport [Business Wire]
|
| 05.22.02 |
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FAA
Nixes Pistol-Packing Pilots [United Press Int'l]
•
UK's
National Air Traffic Service in New Crisis [Eye for Aerospace]
•
Airline
Association: Post Sept. 11 Trans-Atlantic Air Traffic Down
22.6 Percent, Slowly
Returning to Previous Levels [Associated Press]
•
SideStep
Soars To Profitability [Internet Wire]
•
Can
Sabre Slice Up Its Travel Rivals? [Business Week]
• Super
8 Brings Cheap Sleep (and More) to Manhattan [USA Today]
•
SAS
to Introduce Biometric at Check-In [worldroom]
•
Canada
Sweeps Away Airline Restrictions [worldroom]
•
Wanted:
57,500 Airport Workers [MSNBC]
•
Airlines
Ease Saturday-Night Rule [International Herald Tribune]
•
Continental
Airlines Wins INFORMS Best Practices Award [Canada NewsWire
via COMTEX] |
| 05.21.02 |
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More
Woes for UK Air Traffic Control [BBC]
•
Senate
Panel Seeks Air Safety Answers [CNN]
•
Inside
Track: New Terminal Drives Detroit Ahead [Financial Times]
•
Orbitz
Announces Stock Offering, Warns Of Continuing Losses
[Air Transport World]
•
New
Air-Security Measures Examined [MSNBC]
• New
Twist in Booking Airline Tickets [New York Times]
•
No
Ticket Needed for Continental Airlines Airport Clubs [New
York Times]
•
Survey:
Air Travelers More Satisfied [MSNBC]
•
Orlando,
Fla., Airport, Two Hotels May Test Remote Airline Check-In
[Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News]
•
US
Airline Revenues Down 21% In April [Air Transport World]
•
American
Airlines Grounds Jet Over Fumes [CNN]
•
Jury
finds for Boeing Co., Honeywell in toxic fumes lawsuit
[Associated Press] |
| 05.20.02 |
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US
Airways, Carriers Discussing Alliances; Seeks USD$1 Billion
[Washington Post]
•
BA
Posts Worst Loss Since Privatization [CNN]
•
Qantas
Airways to Spend 300 Mln on Business Class Relaunch [AFX
Press]
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Orbitz
To List Fares Offline [E-Commerce
Times]
•
Security
Agency Mulls 911 for Airplane Passengers [Associated Press]
• Hunt
For Stolen Airport Uniforms Continues [airwise news]
•
UAL
Shareholders Propose Management Measures [Chicago Sun
Times]
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U.S.
National Transportation Safety Board Calls For Fuel Modifications
[Aviation Now/Associated Press]
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UK
Flights Delayed After Air Traffic Computer Fails [Financial
Times]
•
Travel
Agents Deal With Cutbacks, Changes [Atlanta Constitution]
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Hawaiian
Airlines CEO Resigns [Associated Press] |
| 05.17.02 |
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Easyjet
Buying Rival Carrier Go [MSNBC]
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UK
Flights Delayed After Air Traffic Computer Fails [Financial
Times]
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US
Airways Presents Restructuring Plan [Financial Times]
•
US
Airways Pins Hopes on Labor's Help [USA Today]
•
Frontier
Makes Profit During a Tough Year [Denver Post]
• AirTran
Considering Reducing Commissions [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
•
China
Southern Airlines Adds Service to Major Asian Capitals [worldroom]
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FBI:
No Clues in Stolen Airport Uniforms Case [CNN]
•
Plane
Worker Charged in Bomb Threat [Associated Press]
•
Delta
Self-Service Kiosks Check-In One Million Customers [eyefortravel.com] |
| 05.16.02 |
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Lufthansa
to Launch EWR - DUS Nonstop All-Business Class Flight
[Eye for Travel]
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America
West Airlines Offers Luggage-less Travel Option [Eye for
Travel]
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EasyJet
Gets Go to Take Top Market Spot [Reuters]
•
American
Airlines Focused on Cost-Cutting, Chairman Says
[Philadelphia Inquirer]
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Navigant,
Orbitz to Link Up on Fare-Search Software [Reuters]
• Strike
Vote By Baggage Handlers at Edinburgh Airport [The Scotsman]
•
Sabre
Selects Siebel eBusiness Application to Coordinate Communications
Across
Multiple Channels [m-travel.com]
•
Firms
Gain Access to Web Airfares [USA Today]
•
America
West and Continental End Their Codeshare [Worldroom] |
| 05.15.02 |
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Star
Alliance Looks to Expand [Air Transport World]
•
Singapore
Takes Top Airline Title [Airwise News]
•
Heathrow
Car Charge Proposal: £5 Fee to Take Taxi to Airport
[Evening Standard]
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Replacing
Airport Screeners Proves Tough
[Washington Post]
•
U.S.
Airlines Increasingly Seeking Corporate Meetings Travel
[Business Travel News]
• Off-Airport
Baggage Check-in Proposed to Handle Security Demands
[Aviation Now]
•
US
Airways to File for Guarantee on Thursday: Union [Reuters]
•
Airlines
Won't See Profit Until 2005, Conference Told [Philadelphia
Inquirer]
•
Boeing
Exec: Air Traffic Back to Normal by August [Associated
Press]
•
Good
News, Bad News: Fewer People Fly, Which Means More Flights
Leave
on
Time [Associated Press]
•
EU
Parliament Clashes with EU Governments Over Who Pays for New
Airport Security
Measures [Associated Press]
•
Jonathan
M. Tisch Named New Chairman OF NYC & Company [Hotel
News Resource] |
| 05.14.02 |
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IAM
Mulls Airline Concessions [CNN]
•
National
Airlines Expanding Network, Considering 737s [Aviation
Daily]
•
Airline
Crews Learning to Fend Off Unruly Passengers
[Nando
Times/Scripps Howard News Service]
•
Swiss
Airline Predicts Recovery [BBC]
•
Travel
Agents Enlist Congress in Orbitz War [BizJournals.com]
• FAA
Wants to Reduce Plane Spacing [Associated Press]
•
Details
Awaited on United Recovery Plan [Reuters]
•
EasyJet
Still Talking with Go [Airwise News]
•
Russian-U.S.
Small Airliner Planned [Reuters]
•
Budget
Airlines Are Not Always the Cheapest [London Daily Telegraph] |
| 05.13.02 |
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US
Airways Seeks Talks with Unions About Cuts [Financial
Times]
•
'Progress'
in EasyJet-Go talks [Financial Times]
•
Boeing
Gets FAA Approval for Connexion [Computer
Weekly]
•
Justice
Department Asking Airlines About Orbitz in Deepening Probe
[USA Today]
•
E-tickets
Cause Confusion at Airport Checkpoints [USA
Today]
• Thousands
Expected to Be Stranded in Italian Air Traffic Controller
Strike
[Associated Press]
•
Starwood
to Guarantee Best Rates on Its Branded Websites
[Hotel
News Resource]
•
House
Committee Blocks Plan for Doubled Ticket Tax [Associated
Press]
•
Chicago
Police Set to Take Over for Guard at Airports [Chicago
Tribune]
•
Fingernail
Clippers, Files Return to Air; Metal Cutlery Still Barred
[Chicago
Tribune]
•
United
Airlines Ground Workers Approve Contract [Chicago
Tribune] |
| 05.10.02 |
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China
Says Crash May Delay Airline Mergers [Reuters]
•
House
Committee Kills Plan to Double Security Tax Added to Airline
Ticket Prices
[Associated Press]
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Food
on the Fly Is New Air-Travel Risk [USA Today]
•
EasyJet
Challenges Lufthansa [Handelsblatt]
•
Continental
Airlines to Equip Cabin Monitoring System [Access Control
& Security
Systems]
• Radisson
SAS Joins Lufthansa's Corporate Programme [AME Info Online]
•
Airlines
Sell Economy to the Business Class [The Times]
•
U.S.
Government Outlines Plan For Private Operations At Washington
National [Aviation
Now]
•
Cathay
Pacific to Create 1,300 Jobs [Washington Post]
•
Millennium
Launches an M Hotel in Singapore [Worldroom] |
| 05.09.02 |
•
Inquiry
into EgyptAir Crash Opens
•
EasyJet
to Take Over BA's German airline
•
Verdict
Expected Soon on Toxic Air Aboard Jets
•
Airport
Resorts: Pampering for Tired Travelers
•
European
Airline March Traffic Figures Down 8%
• Cendant's
Hotel Group to Introduce Satellite Communications
•
United
CEO Wants Wage Concessions
•
Hong
Kong Airport the World's Best for the Second Year Running
•
Southwest
to Go Cross-Country
•
Reduced
Schedules Rev Regional Airlines, Jets |
| 05.08.02 |
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Easyjet
Sees Go-Fly Deal by Friday
•
Easyjet
Eyes Up Deutsche BA
•
Egyptair
Crash Claims 18 Lives
•
China
Airline Says No Survivors from Dalian Crash
•
Bill
Would Rescind U.S. Loan Program
• SAS
Plane Makes Emergency Stopover in Greenland After Bomb Scare
•
Charter
Flights: No Security Goes Along with No Lines
•
Despite
Two Air Crashes, Experts Say China's Carriers Safer than Ever
•
Singapore
Airlines Suspends Flights to Pakistan Following Bombing
•
Air
Marshals Train for Terror Threats
•
Southwest
Set to Begin Nonstop Transcontinental Flights |
| 05.06.02 |
•
Airlines'
On-Time Rate Drops
•
FAA
Hopes New Technology Will Help Reduce Airline Delays
•
Watchdog
Takes Qantas to Court
•
Airline
Security Fee Hike Sought
•
United
Fined for Violating Contract
• Prosecutor:
Airport Security Flawed
•
Airbus
Optimistic on Travel Recovery
•
Delay
in EasyJet Deal for Go
•
Cathay
Pacific Management Condemned by Int'l Pilots' Association
Over
Union Dispute
•
U.S.-Asia
flights See Strong Signs Of Rebound |
| 05.06.02 |
•
Airlines
Struggle with Cutbacks in Business Travel
•
Branson
Sets Aside £68m to Launch No-Frills Airline in US
•
Cathay
Pacific Airways to Expand Fleet with New Boeing 777s
•
Easyjet
in Talks to Buy Go
•
Virgin
Express Hopes To Co-Operate with EasyJet
• Singapore
Airlines to Introduce In-Flight SMS Messaging
•
Frequent
Flier Card Clashes with ID Fears: Airports Consider
'02
"Trusted-Traveler Card" Tests
•
Hotels
Follow Airlines into Online Bookings
•
Smuggling
of Passengers by Airline Guards Feared
•
Airline
Says Four on Plane Survived Nigeria Crash |
| 05.03.02 |
•
Airbus
in Talks for Key Plane Deal with Go
•
KLM
April Passenger Traffic Falls 11%, Reversing Recovery
•
Air
Canada Sees First-Quarter Improvement from Continuing Operations
•
U.S.
Lawmakers Add Pressure to Let Pilots Have Guns
•
Luggage
Bomb Scanning Could Prompt New Searches
• Airline
Lowers Size of Loan Request
•
MeriStar,
Interstate Hotels to Merge
•
Ansett
Administrators Sell Sydney Terminal
•
Howard
Johnson Beijing Opens in China
•
Runway
Foes in Boston Claim a Victory |
