June 2009 Archives

American Eagle Airlines, the wholly owned subsidiary of American Airlines, today began nonstop jet service to five new cities from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). Flights began to Santa Fe, New Mexico; Tallahassee, Florida; Montgomery, Alabama; Brownsville, Texas and Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Midwest Airlines and Frontier Airlines have announced a new code share agreement Monday, an arrangement that will allow passengers flying from Milwaukee to book Midwest trips to Denver and then book connecting Frontier flights to destinations in the Rocky Mountain region on one ticket.

Frontier Airlines reported its seventh consecutive monthly operating profit Thursday as well as a $1.1 million net profit. It was the Denver-based airline holding company's first monthly operations report, as required under terms of its Chapter 11 filing, since announcing Tuesday that it will be acquired by Republic Airways Holdings

I read a fascinating, if not rather lengthy, article today by William Swelbar on his blog site Swelblog commenting on Republics purchase of both Frontier and Midwest Airlines. Swelbar is a research engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has 25 years of experience consulting with a focus on the airline industry.

For the second time in two days Republic Airways Holdings has bought an airline. Republic made an offer to buy Denver based Frontier Airlines out of bankruptcy on Monday, and Tuesday bought Midwest Airlines.

Becoming a professional aviator provides a pilot with several exciting career paths to choose from. Flying business jets as a corporate pilot is a very satisfying career, and the industry is making a comeback which will open up job prospects as it expands.

Airbus CEO Tom Enders was in high spirits on Friday, saying the unexpected crop of orders placed at the Paris Air Show shows the heart of the aviation industry is still beating despite the recession.

Colgan Air posted higher passenger traffic figures for both April and May of this year compared to the same period last year, according to new data released late yesterday.

Some U.S. airlines may be struggling with rising fuel costs and the economic recession, but not AirTran Airways. The airline is having "one of the best years in the company's history," CFO Arne Haak is quoted as saying today by The Associated Press. Haak was speaking at the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch Global Transportation Conference in New York.

Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Scott Carson said the manufacturer believes "economic conditions have bottomed," making a production cut in 2010 unlikely. Boeing said that commercial aviation is "cyclic and has a long history of declines and upturns".

ATP welcomes seven of its graduates as new CFIs:

• Geoff from ATP Jacksonville
• Mike from ATP Sacramento
• Joe from ATP Phoenix
• Jeremy from ATP Houston
• Joshua from ATP Riverside
• Mark from ATP Jacksonville
• Cody from ATP Dallas

The last few days I have shared the first two parts of a three part series in which airline industry experts discuss the approaching pilot shortage expected in the near future. Today we look at the last of the series.

Yesterday I shared the first part of a three part series in which airline industry experts discuss the approaching pilot shortage that is expected in the near future. Today we look at part two of the series.

I came across this article today which introduces a three part series outlining the pilot shortage which experts are saying is certainly coming relatively soon.

Republic Airways Holdings has agreed to loan an additional $6 million to Midwest Airlines and add 12 more Regional Jets to the flying that Republic current does on behalf of Midwest.

United Airlines has approached both Airbus and Boeing to discuss a replacement plan for its widebody fleet of 747s, 767s and 777s, and is talking with both company's about a possible successor for its 757 transcontinental aircraft.

Republic Airlines injected another $2.5 million into its partnership with Hawaii’s Mokulele Airlines on May 1 and this month plans to send a fourth Embraer E170 to the islands as it stages a more serious effort to raise its profile in the market.

Compass Airlines, a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Airlines, announced that the airline’s permanent aircraft maintenance facility at Louisville International Airport is fully operational.

Mesaba Airlines was founded in 1944 by Gordy Newstrom in Coleraine, Minnesota. It began operations in the same year under the name of Mesaba Aviation. Mesaba, which took its name from the American Indian word for Soaring Eagle, initially operated one airplane, a Piper Cub purchased for $1,300. Mesaba used the Cub to shuttle employees of the Blandin Paper Mill Company from Grand Rapids, Minnesota to Minneapolis.

A new low-cost airline will begin serving mid-sized U.S. cities that it thinks larger carriers have left behind.