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...AGGRESSIVE ACCOUNTING] [Strong stench] The telecom boosted its reported profits by "swapping" network capacity with another carrier. Global booked the sales revenue immediately and spread out the cost of purchases...
...Meanwhile, former highflyers have been falling from grace, signaling to some that Malaysia's crony system was on the way out. Halim Saad of Renong and Tajudin Ramli, who piloted the national carrier Malaysia Airlines to record losses during his eight-year tenancy as CEO, have been replaced by professional managers. In January, the new management of Malaysia Airlines filed a police report alleging irregularities in the management of the airline's cargo division during Tajudin's tenure. Police are remaining tight-lipped about the continuing investigation, but according to local press reports they have to date interviewed a dozen...
...that's changing fast. Long Beach is the unlikely scene of the airline industry's fiercest dogfight over passengers and landing slots. Upstart carrier JetBlue Airways cleverly identified Long Beach airport as a back door into the lucrative Southern California market--and a way around the luggage lines and traffic jams that afflict the bigger airports 22 miles north in Los Angeles and 22 miles south in Orange County. It's a fight that features the usual coast-to-coast fare cuts, but it's also one that suggests passengers are changing the way they think about air travel...
...years Long Beach begged major airlines to take advantage of its location, but it was only last summer that interest came from an unexpected quarter: JetBlue, the discount carrier based at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Like Southwest Airlines, JetBlue, with its low fares and aversion to plane-changing hubs, has proved increasingly attractive to passengers in the new era of fewer flights and tighter security--including business travelers, the 15% who provide 50% of an airline's profit. So when JetBlue CEO David Neeleman began seeking a way to capture some of the lucrative transcontinental...
JetBlue's Neeleman wryly asks, "Isn't it ironic that there has been lots of room at Long Beach airport for years, but as soon as one little carrier comes in and develops a market, everyone wants a piece of it?" American defends its newfound interest as part of a push for more cross-country flights. "Our market research also shows high-revenue passengers want to avoid large, complex airports like Los Angeles," says spokesman John Hotard...