Airline travelers scramble (Airline fares) to get home
DENVER (AP) - Hundreds of flights left Denver's beleaguered airport on Christmas Eve with many passengers who had been stranded when a two-day blizzard shut down the runways last week.
Changes at airports and in the airline industry directly impact both business and leisure travelers. Heightened security, low cost carriers, rising fuel costs, and lower labor costs are all factors directly and indirectly effecting the traveling experience.
For El Al, the skies just got a lot less friendly. The airline created as Israel's national carrier, which recently was privatized, is scrambling to fend off a boycott threat from fervently Orthodox customers angered by its apparent breach of religious law.
ATLANTA - Poor pay, long hours, and the contempt of many employees and customers - that pretty much sums up the job of running an airline these days. The only thing worse, for the management masochists who seek these positions, is living in daily fear that the job might be taken away. That's the life of Edward Bastian and James Whitehurst, the two executives running Delta Air Lines on a ...
Iceland's FL Group hf said on Tuesday it bought a 5.98 percent stake in AMR Corp. , making it the third-largest shareholder in the parent of American Airlines.
Emirates airline is seeking compensation from Airbus for delivery delays of its A380 aircraft, Gulf News reported, citing Arabic daily Al Bayan. The 22-month delay has hit the airline's expansion plans, CEO Sheikh Ahmad bin Saeed Al Maktoum is quoted as saying.
German airline Lufthansa has decided to switch off its wireless broadband Internet links for commercial passengers at the end of the year.
Rather than bother with the formality of Christmas wishes, The Guru will bestow a gift on airline passengers to make next year easier. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition)
Changes at airports and in the airline industry directly impact both business and leisure travelers. Heightened security, low cost carriers, rising fuel costs, and lower labor costs are all factors directly and indirectly effecting the traveling experience.
For El Al, the skies just got a lot less friendly. The airline created as Israel's national carrier, which recently was privatized, is scrambling to fend off a boycott threat from fervently Orthodox customers angered by its apparent breach of religious law.
ATLANTA - Poor pay, long hours, and the contempt of many employees and customers - that pretty much sums up the job of running an airline these days. The only thing worse, for the management masochists who seek these positions, is living in daily fear that the job might be taken away. That's the life of Edward Bastian and James Whitehurst, the two executives running Delta Air Lines on a ...
Iceland's FL Group hf said on Tuesday it bought a 5.98 percent stake in AMR Corp. , making it the third-largest shareholder in the parent of American Airlines.
Emirates airline is seeking compensation from Airbus for delivery delays of its A380 aircraft, Gulf News reported, citing Arabic daily Al Bayan. The 22-month delay has hit the airline's expansion plans, CEO Sheikh Ahmad bin Saeed Al Maktoum is quoted as saying.
German airline Lufthansa has decided to switch off its wireless broadband Internet links for commercial passengers at the end of the year.
Rather than bother with the formality of Christmas wishes, The Guru will bestow a gift on airline passengers to make next year easier. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition)
