http://flyingcolors.onewavemedia.com/blog Flying Colors Airline Industry Blog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:00:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The pilots of Continental and United Airlines have decided to throw a whopper on the table and see if the stink gets them anywhere in their negotiations for a unified pilots' contract for the proposed ContiUnited merger.  They want an end to all outsourcing of flights.  In other words, they ... http://flyingcolors.onewavemedia.com/blog/?p=1244 Ryanair's Michael O'Leary has done it again and raised the ire of pilots, agencies and even the public by suggesting that not every flight needs 2 pilots.  He made his suggestions in this Bloomberg Business Week story. O'Leary suggests that by eliminating one pilot and ensuring that a flight attendant was ... http://flyingcolors.onewavemedia.com/blog/?p=1242 British Airways CEO and soon to be chairman of the International Airlines Group, the holding company for the merged BA and Iberia airlines, says he and his company have a large list of acquisition and merger targets as part of a strategy to become the world's largest airline. It's a strategy ... http://flyingcolors.onewavemedia.com/blog/?p=1240 Steven Slater says he quit jetBlue.  jetBlue says he's no longer with the company and comments no more on the subject.  Regardless of the circumstances behind Slater's official departure from jetBlue, it was time for him to go.  It was time for him to go because he clearly had reached a point ... http://flyingcolors.onewavemedia.com/blog/?p=1237 In an interview with TheStreet.Com, jetBlue CEO Dave Barger says that jetBlue has earned the right to grow.  His justification for that comes from jetBlue having positive cash flow, steady earnings and it's contrarian nature that has lead to success at difficult airports. Personally, I think all airlines have a "right" ... http://flyingcolors.onewavemedia.com/blog/?p=1234 When Delta decided to sell off several subsidiary regional airlines recently, we all noticed that Comair didn't receive any takers.  It's costs are higher and its equipment is more dated and now Comair is slimming down to reduce costs in the hope that it might become attractive enough to find ... http://flyingcolors.onewavemedia.com/blog/?p=1231 American Airlines CEO Gerard Arpey has hinted that his company may well use their new 787s (when they arrive) for replacing 767's and that they would make a good fit for flights between New York City and London.   This is in stark contrast to announcements we've heard from airlines such ... http://flyingcolors.onewavemedia.com/blog/?p=1229 JAL is considering setting up a budget airline with some of the money it was given by the Japanese government to compete against the budget offerings of other airlines in Japan.  For the past 20 years, a number of airlines have conceived of this idea that an airline within an airline ... http://flyingcolors.onewavemedia.com/blog/?p=1227 So, yesterday I ran across this story online by Bloomberg that you can read HERE.  The short version is that Tim Clark of Emirates denied that Emirates had any interest in purchasing a stake in American Airlines' holding company, AMR. Huh? No, I don't think they would be interested in that.  Why ... http://flyingcolors.onewavemedia.com/blog/?p=1222 Mexicana Airlines ceased all operations after spending a few weeks trying to restructure and begin to figure a way out of bankruptcy.  It doesn't really come as a giant surprise that one of the world's oldest airlines stopped operating.  Unexplicably, Mexicana had stopped selling seats on their flights but kept ... http://flyingcolors.onewavemedia.com/blog/?p=1219