Recent Posts Tagged With 'continental'

• The Wreckless Nature of the Media

  Posted on Friday February 13th, 2009 at 12:55 in buffalo, continental, bombardier, q400, 3407, colgan

  This will be short as this entry is coming from my phone. I sat up most of the night trying to understand what happened on flight 3407 into Buffalo NY, and the one thing I am certain of is how irresponsible the media can be. Here we have a very trag...

• Alaska Airlines Questions Virgin America Ownership Status

  Posted on Tuesday February 10th, 2009 at 12:31 in virgin, alaska, earnings, ownership, continental, virgin america, financial data, alaska airlines

  Since the public release of Virgin America’s financial data, Virgin has made itself vulnerable to attacks by critics and competitors a like because of the additional information found in those reports. Of those competitors, Alaska has recently...

• Why Boeing is Cutting 4,500 Jobs?

  Posted on Friday January 9th, 2009 at 14:16 in delta, boeing, united, continental, us airways, job cuts, alaska airlines, iam, machinists

  The official news sites are covering the Boeing layoff announcement well enough that I don’t really feel the need to announce it on this blog, however something I suggest is that this is inline with the aviation industry as a whole. Delta annou...

• Airline Job Statistics for 2008

  Posted on Friday January 2nd, 2009 at 19:47 in american, jobs, alaska, spirit, delta, southwest, northwest, united airlines, jetblue, united, american airlines, continental

  I hate to piggyback off of someone elses blog, especially when the emphasis from the other blog is essentially the same, but I really think it might be worth at least linking to.  Barbara Hernandez, a writer for bnet.com, has some very interesting ...

• Southwest Grows; United Shrinks

  Posted on Thursday December 4th, 2008 at 11:54 in us, philadelphia, southwest, denver, united, continental, newark, us airways, frontier, job cuts, ua, co

  Southwest today was awarded 14 slots at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, which is the closest of the New York Airports to Manhattan.  These 14 slots, or 7 total flights per day, were purchased from the bankrupt ATA airlines in a deal worth roughl...

• The New Delta Airlines

  Posted on Tuesday December 2nd, 2008 at 13:41 in New York City, delta, airbus, merger, boeing, northwest, american express, uniforms, united, continental, pepsi, coke

  Delta has been in the news a bit lately, and I wanted to touch on a couple things that may be of interest.  These are everything from Merger to Anti-trust complaints against the proposed United/Continental alliance. Delta has unveiled a couple of ne...