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Grupo Aeromexico Reports Three Percent Year-on-Year Increase in April Passenger Numbers

Grupo Aeromexico transported one million 156 thousand passengers in April; a 3% year-on-year increase compared to April 2011, resulting from an 8% increase in international passenger traffic and a 2% increase in domestic passen...


Flexjet and Qatar Airways Launch Marketing Alliance

Marking its second strategic marketing alliance with an international airline, Flexjet has signed an agreement with Qatar Airways to offer its fractional owners premium benefits when traveling through Qatar Airways’ four ...



Republic Airlines to Operate 32 Q400s As United Express

Republic Airways Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: RJET) today announced that its Republic Airlines subsidiary has reached a tentative agreement to operate 32 Bombardier Q400 aircraft under the United Express brand. The Capacity Purchase ...


Airlines Post Record First-Quarter On-Time Performance for First Three Months of 2012

Between January and March this year, the nation’s largest airlines posted their best on-time arrival rate for the first quarter of any year since the Department began collecting comparable flight delay data in 1995, accor...



AMR Pilots See Savings From US Air Merger

    The lead negotiator for AMR pilots said a merger between AMR and competitor US Airways could save USD$130 million a year in cuts to bankrupt airline’s pilots’ union. Neal Roghair, testifying in US Bank...


American Airlines Statement About Collaborative Agreement With Unsecured Creditors’ Committee

AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, Inc. and AMR Eagle Holding Corporation, said Friday that it has a joint protocol agreement under which the Company and the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors agre...