Japan Airlines aims to conclude tie-up talks soon

Struggling Japan Airlines Corp. said Tuesday it aims to conclude tie-up talks with foreign carriers by mid-October and announced plans to slash 14 percent of its workers under a major restructuring plan. Delta Air Lines Inc., the world’s biggest airline operator, and its rival American Airlines are vying to buy a stake in JAL, which [...]

Airlines offer lightest fall schedules since 2001

The U.S. airline industry is shrinking to a size not seen since the months after the 2001 terror attacks. The airlines have been trimming flights for the past two years, matching the falling demand for air travel. Additional capacity cuts are under way at American, the nation’s second-largest carrier, and at No. 3 United. It [...]

Airline traffic continues to decline

Summer has come and gone without giving much lift to the nation’s airlines. The carriers offered fewer flights than a year ago, and they slashed prices to fill even that reduced supply of seats, according to August traffic reports released over the past week. Discount airlines fared relatively better in the recession, as they lured [...]

Pinnacle Airlines says August traffic fell 3.5 pct

Regional airline operator Pinnacle Airlines Corp. said its August traffic fell 3.5 percent. Pinnacle, which hauls passengers under contract for big-name carriers, said on Tuesday it flew almost 408.7 million revenue passenger miles in August, or one paying passenger flown one mile. That’s down from 423.7 million revenue passenger miles flown in August 2009. Pinnacle [...]

Airlines improve on-time arrival ratings in July

Airline passengers got to their destination on time a little more often in July. The Transportation Department said on Tuesday that 77.6 percent of airline flights arrived on time, up from 75.7 percent during the same month last year. July’s showing was also an improvement over the 76.1 percent on-time rate in June. Airlines have [...]

DOT releases airline delay list for July

The percentage of airline flights in July that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, according to the U.S. Transportation Department: 1. Hawaiian, 93.6 percent 2. Alaska, 87.2 percent 3. SkyWest, 83.6 percent 4. Southwest, 80.7 percent 5. US Airways, 80.6 percent 6. United, 79.6 percent 7. ExpressJet, 79.6 8. Mesa, 78.6 percent 9. Pinnacle, 78.6 [...]

Relief for airlines as fall in traffic slows

Airlines and their suppliers are reporting tentative signs that a severe industry recession is bottoming out, sending shares higher on Tuesday. Airbus, the world’s largest producer of passenger jets, said airline traffic had possibly seen “the trough of the recession” and could start to rebound from next year. “In 2009 we believe total traffic is [...]