September 2009

Mexicana to become part of oneworld on 10 November

September 21, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Mexico and Central America’s leading airline Mexicana will become part of oneworld, airline alliance on November 10. Finnair has been a member of oneworld for ten years. Along with Mexicana, its subsidiaries MexicanaClick and MexicanaLink will join oneworld at the same time. “From 10 November 2009 members of Finnair frequent flyer programme [...]

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Delta TechOps to be Provider for LAN Airlines Boeing 767 Winglet Installations

September 19, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife ATLANTA, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Delta Air Lines’ maintenance division, Delta TechOps, today announced it has penned a one-year contract with Latin American leading airline, LAN Airlines to install winglets and provide airframe maintenance services on some of LAN’s Boeing 767 fleet. Winglets, which are wing-tip extensions designed to [...]

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UAL Corporation Names Jane F. Garvey to Board of Directors

September 18, 2009

CHICAGO, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — UAL Corporation, the holding company whose primary subsidiary is United Airlines, announced today that Jane F. Garvey, former administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, is joining the UAL Board of Directors effective September 23. Garvey is the chairman of Meridiam Investment Fund NA. She also serves on the Bi-Partisan Policy [...]

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Finnair and SLSY reach stabilisation agreement

September 16, 2009

Finnair and the Finnish Flight Attendants’ Association SLSY today reached a fixed-term stabilisation agreement. The agreement covers the EUR 12.3 million cost-cutting target specified in 2009. The cost-cutting target is part of a previously announced cost-cutting programme. “The agreed solutions are not easy, but they are necessary. Through fruitful co-operation we reached an outcome by [...]

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Hotel Prices Fall in Helsinki

September 16, 2009

Prices of hotel rooms have fallen sharply in the Finnish capital this year. According to figures put out by the Hotels.com website, the decline has been nearly 20 percent. Lodging rates have come down in other large cities as well, but in Helsinki the fall was steeper than in the rest of the country. The [...]

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Deeper Losses Forecast Falling Yields, Rising Fuel Costs

September 16, 2009

Image via Wikipedia The International Air Transport Association (IATA) today announced a revised global financial forecast predicting airline losses totaling US$11 billion in 2009. This is US$2 billion worse than the previously projected US$9 billion loss due to rising fuel prices and exceptionally weak yields. Industry revenues for the year are expected to fall by [...]

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TSA Issues Rule to Achieve 9/11 Act Air Cargo Screening Mandate

September 16, 2009

Image via Wikipedia WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today announced an Interim Final Rule (IFR) implementing the Certified Cargo Screening Program (CCSP) – a system TSA will use to fulfill the air cargo security requirements of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (9/11 Act) that mandates [...]

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Delta Air Lines Named One of the Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality in 2010

September 15, 2009

Image via Wikipedia ATLANTA, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Delta Air Lines today announced it has earned a perfect 100 percent rating in the 2010 Corporate Equality Index, an annual survey administered by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). The rating distinguishes Delta as one of the country’s best places to work for lesbian, gay, bisexual and [...]

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