Increase in passenger traffic reported by US Airways
June 4, 2010
U.S. Airways Group Inc. reported an 1.8 percent year-over-year increase in traffic last month and passenger traffic was up close to 1 percent.
U.S. Airways Group Inc. reported an 1.8 percent year-over-year increase in traffic last month and passenger traffic was up close to 1 percent. Almost 4.46 million passengers were on US Airways flights during May, a 0.9 percent increase compared to 4.42 million in May 2009, the airline said Thursday.
The airline, one of six carriers at Piedmont Triad International Airport, flew 5.2 billion revenue passenger miles last month, up 1.8 percent from May 2009. Revenue passenger miles are a key airline industry gauge of a carrier’s traffic.
MINNEAPOLIS US Airways is cutting 600 ground jobs this fall as it continues to struggle with the slow economy.
MINNEAPOLIS US Airways is cutting 600 ground jobs this fall as it continues to struggle with the slow economy.
The airline said on Tuesday that the biggest cut will be 340 customer service agents around the country, who will lose their job on Sept. 14. Other layoffs come from closing its Las Vegas US Airways Club on Sept. 13 and reducing staffing at its club in Phoenix.
The airline will also shut its walk-up ticket counter at its headquarters in Tempe, Ariz., its last counter outside an airport.
Absurd and crazy might describe the ticket prices charged by US Airways Group Inc. to fly nonstop from Philadelphia to Boston.
Absurd and crazy might describe the ticket prices charged by US Airways Group Inc. to fly nonstop from Philadelphia to Boston. The airline’s Web site yesterday had $550 one-way coach fares, or $1,100 round-trip, for current travel on its 16 weekday nonstop flights.
Why so expensive for a trip that is 280 air miles and takes five hours on Amtrak?
In a word: monopoly. No one else flies there from here.
After AirTran Airways stopped flying the route in 2007, ticket prices crept up. Then, in August, Delta Air Lines Inc. dropped the route, and fares rose again.
TEMPE, Ariz. US Airways Group Inc. said Wednesday that severe winter storms on the East Coast in February cost it $30 million in lost sales as the carrier had to cancel thousands of flights and suspend operations for six days at three major airports.
The airline said it canceled 7.1 percent of its flights last month because of the storms the highest cancellation rate since it was acquired by America West in 2005.
US Airways, which has more departures on the East Coast than any other airline, said its traffic fell to 3.85 billion revenue passenger miles from 4.04 billion a year earlier. A revenue passenger mile represents one paying passenger flown one mile.
Could baggage fees be in the Southwest Airlines’ future?
Southwest CEO Gary Kelly did not rule out fees for first and second bags during a Tuesday conference call on Southwest’s earnings.
Could baggage fees be in the Southwest Airlines’ future?
Southwest CEO Gary Kelly did not rule out fees for first and second bags during a Tuesday conference call on Southwest’s earnings.
Dallas-based Southwest has not followed other airlines with such fees as the sector struggles with weak consumer and business demand. It does charge $50 for a third bag.
“We’ve got to be open minded to anything quite frankly,” Kelly said. Southwest is looking at bag charges, their revenue benefits and what impact it might have on airline’s discount image, he said.