Delta To shift Chicago-New York shuttle
Delta will start a new shuttle service between New York LaGuardia and Chicago O’Hare on June 10.
The Delta Shuttle service, with 11 daily roundtrip flights departing between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m., will replace existing service between LaGuardia and Chicago Midway that currently is offered nine times a day between the same hours. Even with 11 flights the service will not quite be hourly throughout the time period, with a two-hour gap before and after the 11 a.m. flight out of both cities and another two-hour gap later in the day.
Continental says bookings flat to 1 pct down
Continental Airlines said that bookings stayed flat. Despite that, they are still expecting delivery of six 787s in 2011.
Executives at Continental and other airlines have made cautiously upbeat comments in recent weeks about a return of business travelers. But Continental’s comments Thursday indicated travel demand is still sluggish.
Airport wars escalate with attack ads aimed at rivals
Think you’d see attack ads only during the elections? Think again. Now airports are taking off their gloves to make sure that passengers choose them over others.
Welcome to the new world of airport advertising.
“There’s been a lot of playful, amicable banter between airports like this for years,” says Kevin Schorr of InterVISTAS, a strategic aviation and tourism consulting firm. “This SFO campaign on YouTube is a little bit more in your face than we’ve seen in the past. But nowadays, this is the way you have to do things.”
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