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AMR (NYSE: AMR) hit the market with two pieces of bad news after the close. The parent of American Airlines announced that it fuel costs would rise well above projections made by the company two...
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Aloha Airgroup has filed for Chapter 11 citing high fuel prices and falling fares. With oil at $100 and both competition and a poor economy warring with ticket prices, the question is "who is next?"...
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Forget about mergers. The US airline industry just has to stay afloat. Rising fuel costs and a recession that will keep people off airplanes like a SARS epidemic have hit the industry mercilessly in...
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The fight over pilot seniority at Delta (DAL) and NWA (NWA) has threatened to kill a merger again. A strike by pilots would do substantial damage to the finances of a new company. Maybe pilots are...
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Southwest Air (NYSE: LUV) responded today to preliminary findings of its internal investigation over safety allegations. It looks like the allegations over safety and inspection incidents had some...
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The airline industry has periods when more big carriers seem to be in Chapter 11 than not. Another such period may not be that far off. Right now, the news about the industry centers around...
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Late word is that Delta (NYSE: DAL) and Northwest (NYSE: NWA) pilots have re-started talks about seniority in a combined airline. Failure of negotiations helped kill earlier merger talks between the...
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The captain of a commercial airline is in charge, no matter what. If things don’t work out, the blame often falls to him. Airline pilots have taken that principle all the way to controlling the...
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Japan Airlines management is so upset about delays in the Boeing (NYSE: BA) 787 that it may turn to Airbus for planes. According to Reuters "JAL, which had planned to buy 55 787 planes, favoring...
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The pilots fly the planes and it looks like they also set the course for big airline mergers as well. A combination of Northwest Airlines (NYSE: NWA) and Delta (NYSE: DAL) is being held up because...
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Depending on which rumor is true, Delta (NYSE: DAL) may merge with Northwest (NYSE: NWA), or United (NASDAQ: UAUA). The math behind airline mergers doesn’t add up, and the fact that the two most...
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Northwest (NYSE: NWA) and Delta (NYSE: DAL) are getting very close to announcing a merger. According to the FT "the airlines may clinch the landmark accord as early as mid-February, the people said,...
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Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) has not been doing well as a stock. Over the last two years its stock has lost nearly one-third of its value. Even over the last 5-year period, its stock has...
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Late delivery of the Dreamliner is catching up with Boeing (BA). According to the FT "Qantas’s contractual arrangements with Boeing provided for the ability to claim damages in certain...
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Perhaps the people at Delta (DAL) did not get the memo. The reasons for airline mergers seem to be a bit soft. While there may be come savings in cutting ground crews and reservations people,...
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