Recent content by whlinder

And with that long-term view, Direct-Connect distribution is where the industry is going long-term. AA is trying to reclaim the pricing power they had prior to widespread internet use and IMHO they will ultimately be successful because of the current industry dynamics.

I don't know everything about flight scheduling either, but it appears that US might be copying some of the things UA does with their IAD hub (Maybe CO does this at EWR too but I haven't looked). Which is having major intercontinental connections flowing through every hub bank. US has that in...

Hooray

http://atwonline.com/news/other.html?issueDate=6%2F27%2F2008 US Dept. of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics Office of Airline Information yesterday rejected a request by Virgin America for confidential treatment of financial, traffic and O&D survey data filed with BTS. The...

The rumors on Flyertalk were that the schedules would be loaded this week.

AirTran was outbid by TPG/NW for Midwest. TPG/NW presented a higher, all-cash offer for existing Midwest stock than AirTran did, and AirTran's bid was part cash/part AAI stock. After what has happened to the airline stocks not named LUV since then I would say Midwest stockholders made out like...

Yeah, I don't know how I missed that. Duh. :oops:

Considering trying to non-rev on WN IAD-MDW and back in August. Am I insane for considering this in the peak travel season? I was always under the impression that IAD-MDW posted fairly low load factors (compared to the rest of WN's system) and with 6 flights a day I figure it should be doable...

Closed at 2.54, a 52-week low. But rockets back up to 2.58 in afterhours trading!

Every airline sans Southwest is well on their way to bankruptcy unless they figure out how to increase their revenues very quickly or oil prices retreat rapidly.

That will happen but the technology and back end processing is still being built.

The rumors on IAD-PEK were that it would downsize to a 777 and also possibly reduce to less than daily service. Additionally ultra long hauls are getting hurt the most economically these days. However HKG would not shock me as it would strengthen the noon bank at IAD, which is the weakest bank...

http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/20600494.html 25 717s left in the fleet after 12 MD80s are parked.

As part of this announcement there is probably a plan in place for US to take over UA in some new iteration of "project minnow" or whatever and then US/CO will have a partnership and anti-trust immunity. Surely. The question is how valuable are CLT/PHL and the shuttle to *A? I'm quite certain...

http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/tdame...4-F2885D4DA48A} Looks like they will try to join in the UA/LH anti-trust exemption. Where does this leave US in the alliance?