by Charlie Leocha | May 11, 2010
As I write this, I am sitting in the German Alps after my second night in Europe. I remember scores of transatlantic trips where I would awaken at 2 or 3 a.m. and lie awake until 4 or 5 a.m. or face spells of amazing tiredness in the middle of the afternoon as my body...
by Charlie Leocha | May 10, 2010
In a major development on the AA front and its rocky labor relations, management has reached an agreement with negotiators in the Transport Workers Union of America who represents the mechanics and other related workers, the largest labor group at the airline. This...
by Charlie Leocha | May 8, 2010
Baldanza defends cabin bag fee, meets with government officials The CEO of Spirit Airlines came to Washington to defend his airline’s decision to impose carry-on baggage fees. CEO Ben Baldanza met with Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, FAA Administrator...
by Charlie Leocha | May 7, 2010
Searchers combing the Atlantic Ocean between South America and Africa heard a previously undetected phantom ping from a sonar tape that recorded searches made immediately after the Air France A330 disappeared in a thunderstorm over the Atlantic. This development has...
by Charlie Leocha | May 7, 2010
Where United Airlines and Continental Airlines don’t have many routes that overlap, they do have unions that overlap and these unions are sure to be far more difficult to couple than will be the route structures. Anyone who has been involved with airlines knows...
