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...Airways) struggle with high costs and dissatisfied passengers, small, low-cost airlines like JetBlue, AirTran, Frontier and Spirit have learned to please customers, make money and grab market share, all at the same time. They have become major players in the industry. Low-fare carriers, including pioneer Southwest Airlines and the improved America West, account for 30% of the market, compared with just 5% a decade...
...Though Southwest actually created the no-frills, low-fare business model 30 years ago, the new-generation carriers have transformed the perception of cheap airlines. Price clearly still matters: airfares are on average 50% lower than they were 25 years ago, allowing for inflation, according to AirlineForecasts, an industry research firm. But passengers also expect better service--even if they do have to bring their own food. JetBlue, which started flying four years ago from its New York base, was the game changer. Its spanking new Airbus jets, live satellite TV and consumer-friendly policy of never bumping a passenger...
...only broad, financial-services behemoth that can give his alma mater a serious run for its money. Although the two banks' retail customers shouldn't immediately experience any changes as a result of the marriage--Bank One's consumer business is centered in the Middle West and Southwest, J.P. Morgan Chase's in the Northeast, with an overlap only in Texas--shareholders are counting on Dimon to boost their fortunes sooner rather than later. Dimon won't get the top job until J.P. Morgan Chase's current CEO, William Harrison, steps down in 2006--at the very same time that...
...Except in the South and Southwest, most students have little contact with minority students,” he said...
...inside the JI camps, one of which is said to be guarded by 150 MILF regulars. That information jibes with details provided by Taufik Rifki, also spelled Taufek Refke, an alleged JI trainer at a camp the Dec. 8 report confirms is located on Mount Cararao in Mindanao's southwest. Rifki, a 29-year-old Indonesian who was captured on Oct. 2, gave Philippine police a detailed description of the JI camp where he was stationed. He said the camp was guarded by MILF fighters from the Iranon tribe and named several MILF contacts who he claimed provide financial...