Archives: October 2008

Farewell to Berlin's Historic Tempelhof

Posted by: Justin Bachman on October 30

With a tinge of sadness, 80 years of history will end on Oct. 31 with the formal closing of Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport, or Zentral Flughafen as it was long...

Delta, Let’s See Those Merger Benefits

Posted by: Justin Bachman on October 30

To the surprise of no one, antitrust regulators did not object to Delta Air Lines’ (DAL) purchase of Northwest (NWA), a deal that closed mere hours after the Justice Dept....

Your Luggage Door-to-Door, from United

Posted by: Justin Bachman on October 29

The Hunt for Ancillary Revenue took an interesting turn today with United (UAUA) announcing a new program in which it has a new deal with FedEx (FDX) to collect and...

Airlines Expand 757s to Europe and Beyond

Posted by: Justin Bachman on October 27

Remember the days when flying across the ocean meant a plane with two aisles? (If not a 747 with a piano?) Those days are long gone. The 757, right, a...

AA.com Plagued a Second Day

Posted by: Justin Bachman on October 24

American Airlines’ (AMR) Web site suffered another complete outage on Friday, a day after technical woes plagued the site and forced many users to call the company to complete their...

Airlines to Public: Time to Get Real

Posted by: Justin Bachman on October 21

A shocking bit of news today as United Airlines (UAUA) reported $252 million in red ink, not counting its unrealized losses on underwater fuel hedges: The fees are here to...

Airlines and a La Carte Pricing

Posted by: Justin Bachman on October 20

On Wall Street, innovation turned out an alphabet soup of new financial products that brought collapse and ruination to the world’s capital markets. Yet we are seeing an arguably more...

Southwest Sees Fuel Hedges' Pesky Side

Posted by: Justin Bachman on October 16

The dark side of fuel hedges cropped up for Southwest Airlines (LUV) this summer, leading to the company’s first quarterly loss since early 1991. Southwest took a $247 million charge...

Airline Earnings: Not So Bleak?

Posted by: Justin Bachman on October 14

I spent a few days off in Texas, and returned to find generally upbeat assessments about the airlines’ pending income reports. Those red-ink recitations – um, I mean earnings releases...

A Ryanair for the Long-Haul?

Posted by: Justin Bachman on October 08

In an industry well-known for wild ideas, here’s one of the zanier ones I’ve heard in weeks: A new trans-Atlantic, budget airline. Or so says Ryanair (RYAAY) CEO Michael O’Leary...

JFK, World's Gateway, Now a Delay Story

Posted by: Justin Bachman on October 03

There are certain delay-plagued airports that make seasoned travelers cringe. Consider O’Hare around 5 p.m on a Friday. Or Atlanta on a Monday morning. Or JFK at, well – OK,...

U.S. Airlines’ Mad Dash for Cash

Posted by: Justin Bachman on October 01

The scramble for liquidity, which most U.S. airlines embarked upon earlier this year, has gone into overdrive. There’s the global credit freeze, which went from chilly to Arctic-blast-frigid in the...