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US Airways is refocusing on its three major hubs, handing back its Beijing route, cancelling five transatlantic routes, reducing its Las Vegas service and generally rearranging its network.
The 1,000 jobs eliminated as part of the changes would repr...
Southwest Airlines has launched a distance-based fare sale, ranging from $25 one way for trips under 375 miles, up to $100 for trips of more than 1,000 miles.
"Southwest Airlines saw great success with our wild 48-sale fare sale in July and wanted to...
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Dallas-based Southwest Airlines Co. has confirmed a $170 million bid for Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc. after indicating its initial bid would be $113.6 million two weeks ago. A formal auction f...
Southwest Airlines Co. said today it earned $54 million in the second quarter, its first official profit after three quarters of losses.
"In, without a doubt, one of the worst revenue environments for the airlines, ever, this is an enormous ach...
Nothing makes an airline look worse than having passengers stranded on board their planes for hours because of weather. Ask Northwest Airlines (OK, now part of Delta Air Lines) about snow in...
Without bad weather in North Texas to mess things up, the airports seem to be moving reasonably well. The important number to consider is arrival times.
As of 11 a.m., Dallas/Fort Worth International has seen 74 percent of its flights depart on time...
DMN reviewer Michael Merschel has taken a look at the William Langewiesche's book, Fly By Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24).
Langewiesche praises the pilot, the airplane and the man responsible for...
To go along with the airport ratings, we've got Zagat's survey results for airlines. Southwest Airlines finished at the top in four categories, and Virgin America was top-rated in three.
Winning in two categories were Continental Airlines, JetBlue...
As we noted the item lower down, the Daily Beast has issued its ratings for U.S. airports. Zagat on Tuesday released its ratings of airlines and airports, based on "opinions of 5,895 frequent fliers and travel professionals (e.g. travel agents) who...
The U.S. Department of Transportation lays out Mesaba Airlines' defense in the Aug. 8, 2009, incident in which passengers were held aboard an ExpressJet airplane despite repeated requests to a Mesaba ground agent that the passengers be allowed to get...
