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Wednesday: Southwest Adds Msp-chicago Route - Minneapolis Star Tribune
s outhwest airlines, long coveted by minnesota travelers, will begin flying out of minneapolis-st. paul international airport in march. the low-fare airline, which now carries more u.s. passengers than any other airline, will initiate service here ...
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Business Plan Challenge Winners
now in its ninth incarnation, the miami herald business plan challenge received 135 entries -- and a major overhaul this year.
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Southwest To Boost Benefits For Business Travelers
southwest airlines will continue its increased focus on business travelers, chief executive gary kelly said, as the airline announced plans to provide priority security lanes for these customers.
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Us Airways Pilot 'sickout' Plan Fizzles - Businessweek
expectations for a "sickout" by some us airways pilots fizzled as the union warned members that it's illegal to try to put pressure on management by staying home from work. some pilots who wanted to protest in support of a co-worker scheduled to be ...
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British Airways Keen On Partnership With Alitalia - Gulf News
rome/sydney: british airways is interested in forming a partnership with a revived alitalia but does not want a stake in the italian flagship, a leading italian daily reported on thursday. "[investor group] italian air company's plan is satisfactory ...
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How To Protect Yourself If An Airline Goes Bankrupt
what are the airline equivalents of lehman brothers and goldman sachs? will governments bail out failing carriers in a similar way? if not, what can i do if i have booked a ticket with an airline that collapses?
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Us Airline Stocks Turn Lower After Brief Early Rally
airline stocks turned south early in the session thursday as pressure from a three-digit decline in the broader market ended a brief, oil-fueled rally.
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How To Protect Yourself If An Airline Goes Bankrupt - International Herald Tribune
what do airlines and banks have in common? answer: they can go bust overnight. what are the airline equivalents of lehman brothers and goldman sachs? will governments bail out failing carriers in a similar way? if not, what can i do if i have booked ...
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Regional Airports 'should Be Open To Competition' - Gulf News
sharjah: adel ali is credited with successfully building air arabia into a major airline. air arabia listed its shares on the dubai financial market last year. at the end of june this year, it had flown 10 million passengers since starting operations ...
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Business & Economy - Most Relevant News
belgrade -- izit experts believe that serbia needs to find a strategic partner for jat airways as soon as possible, as otherwise, the airline could go under.
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Lenders Tighten As Vote Looms
the credit markets remained choked yesterday ahead of last night's anticipated senate vote on the government's financial rescue plan, keeping key lending rates and demand for treasurys at lofty levels. there was more evidence that some large companies are having trouble getting loans at reasonable costs in the current environment, and as a result are altering business plans.
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Frontier Airlines Reaches Tentative Long-term Concession Agreement ... - Forbes
denver, oct. 2 /prnewswire/ -- frontier airlines today announced that it has reached a tentative agreement with one of its unions for long-term wage and benefit concessions. leaders of the transportation workers union (twu), which represents the ...
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Stocks End Lower Amid Bailout, Buffett News - Businessweek
u.s. stocks finished lower wednesday, though well above session lows as investors nervously awaited the senate vote wednesday night on the u.s. financial rescue plan. trading was choppy, with stock prices fluctuating sharply intraday while the credit ...
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Airline Group Adds Its Voice To Call For Bailout Action
airlines are joining the business and wall street chorus calling for federal action to help ease tightening credit markets, banks hit by mortgage debt and teetering securities markets. (lcc)
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Frontier Reaches Accord With One Union
frontier airlines and the transportation workers union entered a tentative concession agreement thursday, outlining wage reductions through 2012 for airline dispatchers, which will save the carrier roughly $400,000, according to bankruptcy court documents.
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British Airways Mulling Partnership With Alitalia: Report - Economic Times
rome: british airways is interested in forming a partnership with a revived alitalia but does not want a stake in the italian flagship, a leading italian daily reported thursday. "(investor group) italian air company's plan is satisfactory to us, it ...
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Interview-westjet Ceo Says Bookings Drop Amid Crisis - Forbes
calgary, alberta (reuters) - westjet airlines ltd has seen short-term travel demand drop in the past 10 days as the financial crisis has intensified, but canada's no. 2 carrier is still confident in its longer-term growth plans, its chief executive ...
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Microsoft Has A New Payback Plan For Searchers
the searchperks program gives consumers points for using live search that can be redeemed for prizes.
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Rescue Plan Afoot For Alitalia
air france-klm chairman jean-cyril spinetta has confirmed that the european giant is interested in acquiring a minority stake in italian carrier alitalia, a source says.
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Aer Lingus To Brief Impact On €100m Cost-cutting Plan - Independent
share aer lingus management is due to meet representatives from the impact trade union today to discuss details of the airline's latest cost-cutting plan. yesterday, management briefed siptu officials on the plan and the union is now arranging ...
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