Air travel

Skies over Europe is getting busier

by Jarkko on June 14, 2011

in Aviation

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Air traffic is getting significantly busier in Finland and elsewhere in Europe, not least due to the growth of budget airlines. Heavy congestion is predicted for the summer. Airport queues make it hard to mistake the start of the holiday season. The number of passengers this summer is expected to reach, if not exceed, pre-crisis [...]

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Airlines Financial Monitor – April 2011

May 6, 2011
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Airline share prices underperform by 17% so far this year as financial markets take a bearish view; Early Q1 results show a net loss for airlines as profit margins are squeezed by higher fuel prices; Jet prices above $140/b now approaching highs of 2008 but now, unlike then, economy seems stronger; Air travel and freight [...]

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Improving Consumer Confidence Drives Growth in Passenger Volume

January 12, 2010

Image via Wikipedia 2009 has been one of the worst years for the airline industry. Most airlines throughout the world have been in the red, and only in the third quarter of 2009 were there visible beginnings of some passenger airlines returning to the profit zone. Air Cargo carriers have suffered further with reduction in [...]

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Airline Industry Leads in Mobile Web Performance

June 16, 2009

Image via Wikipedia LEXINGTON, Mass., June 15 /PRNewswire/ — Five out of the top ten airline companies scored top marks for their mobile Web performance in May, according to new Mobile Web Experience Benchmark data published today by Gomez, Inc., the leader  in Web application experience management and Web performance benchmarking, and dotMobi (http://dotmobi.mobi/), the [...]

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Ryanair makes money again ;)

February 27, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Money does not smell, said the ancient Romans and meant pay toilets. Now the same logic will follow up in the skies.  Suprisingly, the idea is from Europe’s largest low-cost airline, IrishRyanair. It is considering taking the money from travelers who visits the toilet, said the company’s CEO Michael [...]

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Consumers Dislike Fees, But Are Willing To Pay For Choice

November 16, 2008

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Amadeus today released a new survey that, for the first time, captures sentiment around emerging airline fee-for-service models, also known as ‘a la carte’ flying, from the people who are most impacted by them: air travelers.  The telephone survey of 2,000 random adults in the U.S. (ages 18 or [...]

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