Airline cutbacks could lead to return of profits
New travel fees have been introduced by most airlines during the past several months as a means of counterbalancing the rising cost of jet fuel. The fees are turning into hundreds of millions of dollars of new income for airlines ...
by Dave Smith July 24th, 2008
Airlines to sell ads on their boarding passes
Several major airline companies have decided to sell display ads on boarding passes that their customers print out when checking in online and printing their boarding passes at home. Passengers will also have the option of printing their boarding ...
by Andrew Bones July 17th, 2008
Airlines taking addition measures to save costs on flights
Virgin Atlantic and British Airways have announced plans to modify air craft in an effort to make them more fuel efficient as the price of oil continues to rise. Some things the airlines are considering doing are replacing particular ...
by Andrew Mayer July 11th, 2008
US Airways plans cuts and new charges
The US Airways Group Inc. ha announced sweeping cuts in services and increases in fees to offset the sky-high costs of jet fuel that are plaguing the industry. The carrier has said that it will cut domestic flights, reduce the ...
by Andrew Mayer June 16th, 2008
US Airways makes wing repairs
After a wing-fastener on a US Airways Boeing 757 jet fell off and hit a passenger window last month in the air over Maryland, investigators have been pursuing the issue and have just announced that other faulty fasteners have been ...
by Dave Bess April 23rd, 2008
US Airways inks union deal
A tentative three-year agreement has been reached between US Airways and its 40 maintenance training instructors belonging to the International Association of Machinists union. The deal, which is subject to ratification, sets down better wages for workers, among other improvements ...
by Darren Robinson April 17th, 2008
New US Airways route to Montreal announced
Starting July 3rd of this year, US Airways will be adding a new service to its daily flight schedule, a direct flight from its home base in Charlotte, North Carolina to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The flight is offered by Airways ...
by Andrew Mayer April 16th, 2008
Open Skies means Philly flies to Heathrow
The new Open Skies agreement between the European Union and the United States came into effect this weekend, and with it, a slew of new routes from airlines that scramble to get routes into previously unavailable airports, on both sides ...
by Jennifer Jones April 1st, 2008
Gun-firing pilot identified
The pilot who inadvertently fired his gun in the cockpit of a US Airways airplane he was preparing to land in Charlotte, North Carolina has been identified as 55-year old James Langenhahn, a Pittsburgh-based former Air Force pilot. The pilot ...
by Neill Zerk March 28th, 2008
New info on cockpit gun firing
As was reported a couple of days ago, a US Airways plane that was ready to land in Charlotte, North Carolina experienced a peculiar incident of a gun going off in the cockpit. No one was injured in the incident ...
by Emily Welch March 27th, 2008