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...amenities, a fresh flock of new and expanding niche carriers is rushing to fill the gap with wildly varying routes and styles of service. Indigo and an unprecedented transatlantic Boeing Business Jet service offered by Germany's Lufthansa Airlines are aimed at executive travelers. Others, like JetBlue Airways and AirTran Airways, are profitably targeting bargain hunters. Some are even more offbeat: Want to fly among skimpily clad hostesses from Atlanta or Newark, N.J., for a golf weekend in Myrtle Beach, S.C.? Try Hooters Air. Feel the urge to disrobe once you're airborne? Fly Naked...
...proposal is being fiercely opposed by seven smaller carriers, including such moneymakers as Southwest, JetBlue and AirTran, which have filed formal complaints with the DOT. They claim that such alliances give too much market power to the large carriers and could drive smaller ones out of business and hurt consumers. Says Southwest CEO Jim Parker: "This alliance is really a de facto merger that is likely to result in less competition and higher prices." Airline observers are also concerned about how the DOT is reviewing the deal. Unusually, for a case with such large implications for U.S. travelers, the department...
...public has responded. JetBlue, Frontier, AirTran and that big small airline, Southwest, are flying full planes and making money. Clearly, consumers will pay for a sense of security...
...flight to make a game--caused the airport to be shut down for three hours. Lasseter's sprint into a secured area has already earned him a criminal charge of disorderly conduct. Now it looks as if the civil courts will get a piece of the scurrying banker too. AirTran Airways, which says it lost $1 million when air traffic across the East was disrupted, is suing Lasseter for $100,000. Delta Airlines, which has not followed suit--yet--claims to have lost up to $8 million. Lasseter, whose attorney calls AirTran's suit "irresponsible," says he was only dashing...
...huge economic hit the industry has taken in the last week, Ornstein and Mesa?s president will take huge pay cuts of 50 per cent, and the rest of the carrier's management will see their salaries cut by 20 per cent. Likewise, executives at Atlantic Coast Airlines, AirTran and Frontier Airlines also announced pay cuts for its top officials...