DALLAS — Southwest is well-positioned in tricky times for the airline industry and will launch new service to Minneapolis-St. Paul in March 2009, Southwest Airlines chief Gary Kelly said today. The Twin Cities are the first new Southwest market since 2006, and the first planned service will be nonstop to Chicago’s Midway Airport.
The announcement of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘open skies’
“Wild times”: Southwest’s Gary Kelly announces service to MSP, discusses challenges in airline industry
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged airports, budget airlines, business, delta, faa, network airlines, northwest, open skies, southwest, travel, usa on October 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Aviation08: The McCain aviation record
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged air traffic control, Aviation08, competition, congress, faa, labor, open skies, politics, regulation, travel on September 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t had any luck getting the McCain campaign to fill me in on the details of his aviation plan (if he has one). His website has one mention of aviation, and it’s a throwaway press release on the air traffic control communications outage in August with a boilerplate call for reform in Washington. However, [...]
Wide open skies
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged competition, europe, open skies, usa on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, the Financial Times carried an editorial on expanding “open skies” between the U.S. and Europe. After heralding the decline of flag carriers (even more marked with the proposed merger of BA and Iberia), the editors write: “Governments . . . must deal with the remaining obstacles to effective global airline consolidation.”
The US once [...]
What Open Skies can do, and what it can’t: the case of St. Louis
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged airports, network airlines, open skies, prestige on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Airline Hub blog links to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch story wistful for transatlantic flights to Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. Now, if you click on the “prestige” tag below, you’ll see that I have had some scathing opinions about airports that go out of their way to secure transoceanic airline service that’s not supported by [...]
The “homegrown” fallacy
Posted in Evan's Debates, tagged aerospace, asia, competition, environment, europe, nationalism, open skies, prestige, regulation, usa, world on December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My exchange with Daniel Hall earlier this week made it onto The Economist’s Free Exchange, which was in turn picked up by Megan McArdle’s Asymmetrical Information.
The Economist writer brings in the intervention dimension:
[S]o politicised an industry as air travel need not fear dislocations in any case; governments would react incredibly quickly to pull back on [...]
Seriously, this is news?
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged competition, open skies, regulation, travel, world on December 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Well, I’m back from a little-longer-than-usual Thanksgiving break. My day job has been busy and I have a couple of side editing projects that have been butting into my blogging time. But I was rousted from my bloggy slumber by this piece of non-news from Reuters:
New pact could shake up airlines: Barron’s
New pact? Why, what [...]
Open skies to Oz
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged australia pacific, competition, open skies, regulation, travel on October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The U.S. and Australian governments will “conclude a comprehensive open-skies aviation agreement” early next year, according to The Age, opening up competition on U.S.-Australia nonstops. Qantas currently controls 75 percent of that market, and the only U.S. airline to fly nonstop to Australia is United. The article claims that the route is one of the [...]
A whole lot of not much
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged asia, open skies, regulation, travel on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Travel Weekly reports that after four years of talks, the U.S.-Japanese bilateral aviation agreement has been amended for the first time in ten years, with minimal changes: a minor codeshare rule change, more flexibility in setting fares (“While that provides more fare freedom in theory, the U.S. government never blocked fares, and it was not [...]
Winners all in China grab bag
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged asia, competition, network airlines, open skies, regulation, travel, world on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Department of Transportation has awarded new China route authority (see my earlier post on this), and all the major airline applicants took home a prize. Delta goes first, with immediate approval for Atlanta-Shanghai. The 2008 route is for Guangzhou only, and only United submitted a bid, for service from San Francisco. Finally, in 2009, [...]
Thought leaders on aviation trends
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged budget airlines, business, consumer advocacy, delays, network airlines, open skies, southwest, travel on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
DALLAS — Our lunchtime entertainment here at Southwest headquarters was provided by a panel of five airline industry thought leaders who offered their thoughts on the future of the industry. Rick Seaney of FareCompare.com kicked off the discussion. Some of the trends he noted include a “decline in human interaction” through the increasing utility of [...]
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