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Like most other airlines, Virgin America is eager to extol the virtues of its jets. A snack-packed minibar at the rear of the cabin. Personal TVs that let you order dinner and share MP3 playlists with other passengers. Mood lighting, tinted windows, music in the bathroom. And, of course...
For more than a year, Virgin America's application at the Department of Transportation (DOT) has been enmeshed in a cantankerous debate about who, exactly, controls the airline. Richard Branson, the British entrepreneur who has plastered the Virgin logo on everything from record stores to cell phones, longed to start...
Virgin America is also taking a page from the playbook Southwest developed during the years it spent trying to repeal the Wright Amendment. That bit of legislation was roundly criticized as anticompetitive for keeping Southwest bottled up at Dallas' Love Field--and as less of a threat to American Airlines...
Flight 574's disappearance and the so far fruitless search have raised questions about the safety of Indonesia's booming airline industry. Since the aviation industry was deregulated in 1999, allowing private firms into a sector previously open only to government companies, 19 new carriers have taken to the skies...
Every year, more than 30 million passengers fly with small Indonesian carriers like Adam Air, which launched in 2003. Many have spotty safety records. A Boeing MD-82 operated by Lion Air crashed in Solo in 2004, killing 25 of the 141 people on board, and a Mandala Airlines Boeing...