Frontier Airlines announced preliminary traffic results for June 2008 for both Frontier’s mainline operation as well as its wholly owned subsidiary, Lynx Aviation. Traffic decreased 1.1% for June 2008 from the same period last year, while capacity decreased 1.3%. This resulted in a load factor for June 2008 of 87.2%, an increase of .2 points […]
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WestJet announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding to build a distribution and codeshare agreement with U.S. based Southwest Airlines. This memorandum of understanding is the first step that will see both airlines, by late 2009, have the ability to commence codeshare flights across both networks. In the near future, southwest.com will become a
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Aircell, a leading provider of airborne communications, reported the completion of the third tranche of a package of equity and debt financing now totaling $265 million. The latest step is the closing of a $35 million senior secured term loan facility arranged by Scotia Capital, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, which rounds out the prior
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WestJet announced June traffic results with a 76.5% load factor, a traffic improvement of 17.9%, and a capacity increase of 23.1%. This capacity increase is the largest percentage increase for the airline since November 2006.
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Single Multi-standards Certification has been successfully renewed at Air France Industries (AFI). Bureau Veritas simultaneously validated two new international standards in addition to the existing set. In June 2008, AFI was awarded an extended multi-standards label by Bureau Veritas completing the Certification + project. This covers the same ground as the earlier Single Certification but
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Dubai Aerospace Enterprise Holding (DAE), the global aerospace, manufacturing and services corporation, announced the retirement of its Group Chief Executive Officer, Bob Johnson. Johnson, who became DAE
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Air France/KLM reported that June 2008 traffic rose 2.6% with capacity up 4.1%, compared to June 2007. The load factor amounted to 81.5%, down 1.2 pts compared to the same period last year.
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easyJet reported that June load factors remained strong at 86.9%, compared to 86.8% in June 2007 and passenger numbers, including the effect of the GB Airways acquisition, grew 19.5% compared to the same period last year.
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Finnair traffic increased by 5.3% in June, while the capacity was up by 10.4%, resulting in a passenger load factor of 73.4% or 3.6 points lower than last year. Finnair transported altogether 730 884 passengers, which is 1.1% less than a year ago.
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Ryanair Holdings PLC has confirmed that it has exercised options for delivery of 3 Boeing 737-800 Next Generation aircraft for delivery in June 2010 under the terms of its 2005 Boeing agreement.
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