Sector Snap: Airlines up as oil falls again The Associated Press Bucking the trend was Southwest Airlines Co., which fell 6 cents to $8.62. Federal Aviation Administration say a maintenance company hired by Southwest used …

FAA panel to develop rules on pilot fatigue by September USA Today By Win McNamee, Getty Images By Alan Levin, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Airlines , pilot unions and federal officials have until Sept. 1 to develop new rules to limit fatigue among pilots, the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday in an unusually …

Fares So Low…You'd Think They're For the Birds PR Newswire (press release), NY Currently in its 15th year of operations, Frontier Airlines is the second-largest jet service carrier at Denver International Airport, employing more than 5000 aviation professionals. Frontier Airlines ' mainline operation has 51 aircraft with one of … Frontier announces low fare sales Peanuts! Low Cost Airline News all 10 news articles

Frontier to stop local service Steamboat Pilot, CO The airline flew to YVRA from December to April on Bombardier Q400 aircraft operated by Lynx Aviation . On Monday, Indianapolis-based Republic Airways Holdings announced that it planned to buy Frontier.

Examiner.com Indy's Republic buys Midwest, seeks Frontier Indianapolis Star, United States By Ted Evanoff Two years after hometown carrier ATA Airlines faded away, Indianapolis-based Republic Airways Holdings is moving into the tumultuous ranks of big-league aviation with separate deals to buy Frontier and Midwest. Taking over the troubled …

Straits Times Airbus delivers first Tianjin A320 as Air China, CEA express A380 … ATWOnline, MD The new aircraft, on lease from Dragon Aviation Leasing, is powered by IAE V2500s, which will be on nine of the first 10 A320s assembled in Tianjin (ATWOnline, June 23).

Straits Times Dreamliner Woes Point to Difficulty of Using High-Tech Materials Wall Street Journal By ANDY PASZTOR and PETER SANDERS Despite the steadily increased use of carbon-fiber composite parts in airlines , Boeing Co.'s disclosure Tuesday of design troubles with its 787 Dreamliner highlights the engineering, manufacturing and maintenance …

China Daily China's East Star Airlines attracts new investors Flightglobal, UK The Civil Aviation Administration of China grounded the Wuhan-based airline in March by after the city government said that the carrier was unable to meet payments to creditors. These include the parent of fuel supplier China Aviation Oil and leesor GE … SIA must forget the flying lemon of Shanghai Cargonews Asia (registration) China East Star Airlines gets offer from investors Reuters India China Eastern gets approval for share placement Interactive Investor all 563 news articles

Straits Times Yet another 787 delay puts Boeing's credibility at risk USA Today But, "Everybody who was there at the rollout, from the representatives of the airlines buying it to people from all the suppliers, knew that it was just a model airplane …" he said. Aboulafia, who is widely followed within the aviation and investment … Boeing damages credibility with decision to delay first flight of …

Figures show US airlines are still losing money etravelblackboard.us, New York In the same month, US airlines passenger numbers fell 9.5 percent whilst in April cargo traffic declined 22 percent compared to the same period in 2008. Commercial aviation contributes $1.1 trillion annually to the US economy and provides over 10 … Passenger numbers, load factors and yields continue to slip: ATA Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (subscription) Air Transport Association Reports Decline in Passenger Demand ..