| French strike grounds hundreds of flights
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AP - Hundreds of Air France flights were canceled Tuesday — including 40 percent out of Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport — and the disruption is expected to get worse during a union strike over labor rights. |
| American Airlines traffic rises from a year ago
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AP - Consumers seem not to care whether the airline they fly is under bankruptcy protection. |
| China bars its airlines from paying EU carbon tax
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AP - China announced Monday it will prohibit its airlines from paying European Union charges on carbon emissions, ratcheting up a global dispute over the cost of combatting climate change. |
| New $2 Fee from Spirit Airlines Takes Things Too Far
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ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | When the new U.S. Department of Transportation regulations took effect that made a few changes to how airlines do business, some degree of unhappiness on the part of the airlines was expected. After all, nobody likes change, and no industry likes to have to change current practice. However, Spirit Airlines is taking things a bit too far. |
| Analysis: No check-in queue as global airlines wary of India
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Reuters - Just because foreign airlines may soon be allowed to invest in India's battered carriers doesn't mean they will. |
| American Airlines aims to cut 13,000 jobs
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 AP - The parent of American Airlines wants to eliminate about 13,000 jobs — 15 percent of its workforce — as the nation's third-biggest airline remakes itself under bankruptcy protection.
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| Tulsa jobs to be slashed among airline's plan
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AP - American Airlines is expected to slash about 2,100 jobs at its maintenance facility in Tulsa under a bankruptcy reorganization plan released by its parent company, a spokesman for the airline said Wednesday. |
| Airlines: Passenger demand grew 6 percent in 2011
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AP - The International Air Transport Association says passenger demand grew 5.9 percent last year but lagged behind capacity increases. |
| Feds pressure American Airlines to save pensions
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AP - The federal pension-insurance agency filed $91 million in liens against American Airlines property in a bid to pressure the company to save its retirement plans instead of dumping the obligations on the agency. |
| AMR wants to cut 13,000 jobs, pensions
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Reuters - AMR Corp, the parent of bankrupt American Airlines, wants to slash 13,000 jobs and terminate employee pension plans as part of a cost-cutting strategy the carrier says is necessary to compete with rivals. |
| AMR lost $904 million in December
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 AP - American Airlines' parent company says it lost $904 million in December — more than in the first nine months of 2011 combined.
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| US Airways, flight attendants reach tentative deal
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AP - US Airways Group Inc. says it has a tentative agreement with negotiators for the union representing 6,700 flight attendants across its main network. |
| Alaska Airlines retiring meal tray prayer cards
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 AP - Alaska Airlines is ending decades of giving passengers prayer cards with their meals, saying Wednesday the decision was made out of respect for all passengers.
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| Delta, US Airways learn to stay profitable
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 AP - Delta and US Airways are learning to stay profitable.
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| US Airways 4Q income falls as fuel prices climb
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AP - US Airways Group Inc. expects ticket prices and passenger demand will continue their upward climb this year, overshadowing stubbornly higher fuel prices. |
| Summary Box: Etihad to invest in Air Seychelles
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AP - ISLAND CONNECTION: Etihad Airways, the fast-growing Gulf airline, will spend $20 million to buy 40 percent of the national carrier in the island nation of Seychelles, off the eastern coast of Africa. |
| Delta 4Q profit soars on higher fares, demand
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AP - Delta Air Lines' quarterly profit soared as higher fares offset a bigger fuel bill.
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| Summary Box: Norwegian airline buys 222 jets
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AP - HIGH FLIER: Budget carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA on Wednesday said it has ordered 222 new aircraft from Boeing and Airbus in separate deals with a combined worth of $127 billion in list prices. |
| Summary Box: US Airways 4Q income falls
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AP - GOOD AND BAD: US Airways moved more passengers and charged higher prices in the fourth quarter, but neither was enough to counter a steep increase in fuel. |