Unite Union: British Airways Strikes to not Happen During Royal Wedding Unite union, which represents the thousands of disgruntled British Airways cabin crew workers, stated they will not strike during the week of the royal wedding. That's great news for the hundreds of...
Fuel Prices Expected to Reduce Airlines Profits in 2011 Fuel Costs Expected to Decrease Airlines' Profits The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is predicting that the airlines will make less in 2011 than they did in 2010 due to the...
Las Vegas Continues Slow Economic Recovery Sin City continued to recover slowly as 2010 came to a close The trend of slow economic recovery in Las Vegas continued as 2010 came to a close. The number of people who visited Sin...
Michigan Tourism Advertising Close to Receiving an Additional $10 Million Downtown Detroit A bill dedicated to boosting Michigan’s tourism funding is one step closer to a reality. The Michigan House passed the bill that would allow the Michigan tourism advertising...
WestJet Airlines Resurges Due to Travel Demand WestJet Sees 23 Straight Profitable Quarters WestJet Airlines closed 2010 with their 23rd straight profitable quarter and an increase from 2009 to 2010. The Calgary-based airline reported fourth...
Virgin Atlantic Wins for Most Attractive Flight Attendants Virgin Atlantic Wins for Most Attractive Flight Attendants Virgin Atlantic earned the top spot for most attractive flight attendants in a survey of 1,000 people conducted by the Business Travel and...
O’Hare Airport Deal Could Make Room for Virgin America, JetBlue Budget carriers could soo make inroads at O'Hare Airport After extensive negotiations, Delta is primed to hand over control of the L Concourse in O’Hare International’s...
Survey Reveals Business Travelers Want Adult Only Flights Could adult only flights become a possibility in the future? If business travelers get their way it could. That's because a recent poll revealed business class passengers would use a major airline that...
Obama Calls for $53 Billion High-Speed Rail Project The funding would improve trains and link existing lines to new ones President Barack Obama is calling for a new 6-year, $53 billion spending plan for high-speed rail development in the...
Egypt Tourism Authority Expects Speedy Recovery Following Political Turmoil Will the new political diologue make Egypt more appealing to tourists? Officials from the Egypt Tourist Authority expect the Egyptian tourism industry to recover quickly from the turmoil...
Airline Losses Could Top $600 Million This Winter Due to Snow Nearly constant storms this winter could cost airlines $600 million In what has been a very active winter, airlines have been forced to cancel thousands of flights across the country due...
Etihad Airways, Air New Zealand Reach Codeshare Agreement Air New Zealand to Begin Codesharing with Etihad Airways Etihad Airways has reached a codeshare agreement with Air New Zealand for flights between Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi...
Aircell Secures $35 Million in Private Funding for Gogo Expansion Aircell will expand its Gogo in-flight WiFi service in 2011 Aircell announced yesterday that it was able to raise $35 million from existing investors to expand in-flight internet...
Students Revolt Over Bag Fee on Ryanair Flight All 168 passengers were briefly removed from the flight Spanish police removed 100 students from a Ryanair flight in the Canary Islands this weekend after they staged a mutiny over a bag...
