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A new study by a team of aviation consultants, which claims the government’s new tarmac delay rule will cost the flying public $3.9 billion during the next two decades, is making waves in the aviation industry and beyond. Is it self-serving airline propaganda?
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Is the Department of Transportation starting to go soft on airlines? Where are the fines this so far this year?
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced this week, that “international traffic on North American airlines grew nearly 11 percent in June.” At the same time virtually every airline reported earnings surprises to the upside in this still troubled economy.
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There are a lot of pieces to the airline puzzle, but almost none of them are now owned by airlines. The modern “airline” is more of a management company that owns as few assets (such as planes) as possible.
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Tits ‘n’ ass at the Tate, Golden age of flight wasn’t always golden, Glacier Express derails between Zermatt and St. Moritz.
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Chris Elliott takes a look at the airlines’ big profits and find all the income comes from fees, fees and more fees — just the part of their pricing that they want to hide from the public.
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Pro-airline researchers produced shows that cancellations for May, due to the new regulations, were 3 times the number of cancellations DOT predicted for the entire year. They go on to argue that their analysis doesn’t include second order cancellations.
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From a travel agent perspective, these mergers do have some advantages for clients, especially when it comes to fare combinability. But like many airline innovations, alliances can create as many problems as they solve.
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Alitalia lost Carole Pollack’s luggage, and it stayed lost for five days. It’s been more than five months since she submitted her expenses to the airline, and she’s wondering if she’ll ever be reimbursed for the incidentals she had to buy for herself and her teenage daughter.
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The airlines can claim a massive victory with their latest victory in the antitrust immunity grant to American, British Airways and Iberia as well as their other partners in Oneworld. They may now compare notes, fares, schedules and costs for their international routes.
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