Airlines launch industrywide fare hike
October 23, 2009 ·
Major U.S. airlines have matched a domestic fare increase initiated by Delta Air Lines and Continental Airlines, marking the fifth industrywide fare hike in 2009, a top fare analyst said on Friday. The $10 round-trip increase is the second hike in two weeks as carriers struggle for pricing power during the economic downturn, said Rick [...]
Southwest Airlines adds more flights in Denver
October 22, 2009 ·
Southwest Airlines Co. is adding flights and new destinations from Denver, where it has grown rapidly in three years to compete against United and Republic’s Frontier Airlines. Southwest said Thursday it would add 13 more daily flights in Denver, its fastest-growing location. The discount airline currently operates 112 flights in Denver. That will jump to [...]
Airlines still looking for business travelers
October 21, 2009 ·
Airlines value premium travelers above other customers, letting them board first, eat a meal, and order a cocktail without whipping out a credit card. Many of them are business travelers who fly frequently and often pay higher last-minute fares than the jeans-and-T-shirt crowd on the way to see grandma. Anyone who questions why airlines treat [...]
Low-cost airlines all a-Twitter with customers
October 12, 2009 ·
A Seattle woman tweets from an airport that JetBlue’s birthday present to her was forgetting to put her wheelchair on her flight. Seven minutes later, an airline official tweets back that the crew will work quickly to make things right. On a Facebook page used by Delta Air Lines, a traveler suggests Delta wrap its [...]
Airlines improve on-time arrivals in August
October 6, 2009 ·
Arriving on-time was just a little bit easier for airline passenger traveling in August. The Transportation Department said on Tuesday that 79.7 percent of flights arrived on time in August. That was an improvement from 78.4 percent in August 2008, and 77.6 percent in July. Dallas-based Southwest Airlines Co. was the most punctual of the [...]
Frontier Airlines emerges from bankruptcy
October 1, 2009 ·
Frontier Airlines emerged from bankruptcy protection on Thursday, under new ownership but still facing a tough competitive situation at its Denver base. Frontier is now a subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings Inc., which beat out a bid from Southwest Airlines Co. Denver-based Frontier filed for bankruptcy protection in April 2008. It shrank while in bankruptcy [...]
Southwest Airlines announces new fare sale
September 29, 2009 ·
Southwest Airlines Co. on Tuesday launched a new fare sale for late fall and winter, although it includes plenty of limits and blackout dates around the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s holidays. The airline said seats to some destinations would start at $59 each way, but seats are limited. The sale prices apply to travel [...]
