http://thedailyrecord.com Maryland's trusted source for business and legal news Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:16:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/06/13/airlines-on-time-performance-falls-u-s-says/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/06/13/airlines-on-time-performance-falls-u-s-says/#comments Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:25:22 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=241634 The nation’s airlines struggled to stay on schedule in April, with nearly one in four flights arriving late, according to new government figures. The airlines blamed furloughs of federal air traffic controllers and bad weather. A nationwide computer outage at American Airlines added to the slowdown. The Transportation Department said Thursday that among the 16 [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/06/13/airlines-on-time-performance-falls-u-s-says/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/05/16/airlines-lose-552-million-in-1q-better-than-12/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/05/16/airlines-lose-552-million-in-1q-better-than-12/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 16:46:55 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=239930 NEW YORK — U.S. airlines say they improved their financial performance in the first quarter, although they still lost money in what is traditionally the year’s toughest travel period. The airlines lost $552 million — or $3.30 per passenger — in the first three months compared with a loss of $1.7 billion a year earlier, [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/05/16/airlines-lose-552-million-in-1q-better-than-12/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/05/15/airlines-on-time-rating-falls-below-80-percent/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/05/15/airlines-on-time-rating-falls-below-80-percent/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 20:00:22 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=239865 WASHINGTON — The Transportation Department says fewer flights arrived on time and more were canceled in March than a year ago. On the other hand, fewer passengers are lodging formal complaints against the airlines. The government said Wednesday that 79.8 percent of flights arrived within 14 minutes of schedule in March. That’s down from 82.2 [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/05/15/airlines-on-time-rating-falls-below-80-percent/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/05/06/faa-safety-oversight-of-aircraft-repairs-faulted/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/05/06/faa-safety-oversight-of-aircraft-repairs-faulted/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 18:33:05 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=239188 WASHINGTON — The government’s oversight of hundreds of domestic and overseas repair stations that service U.S. airliners is ineffective and doesn’t target the factors most likely to present safety risks, the Department of Transportation’s inspector general said Monday. The Federal Aviation Administration’s supposedly risk-based safety inspection system “falls short of being truly risk-based,” especially for [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/05/06/faa-safety-oversight-of-aircraft-repairs-faulted/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/25/higher-fares-help-southwest-airlines-profit/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/25/higher-fares-help-southwest-airlines-profit/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:58:21 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=238430 DALLAS — Higher fares helped Southwest Airlines make more money than Wall Street expected in the first quarter, but the company said Thursday that automatic federal spending cuts could hurt revenue in April. The average passenger fare on Southwest is now more than $150 one-way, 4 percent higher than a year ago. The airline also [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/25/higher-fares-help-southwest-airlines-profit/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/23/lawmakers-urge-delay-in-control-tower-furloughs/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/23/lawmakers-urge-delay-in-control-tower-furloughs/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:59:13 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=238253 WASHINGTON — As airport delays spread across the country, members of Congress on Tuesday urged the administration to postpone the furloughing of air traffic controllers to give the White House and Congress time to find a less painful way of handling automatic spending cuts. Two senators, Republican Jerry Moran of Kansas and Democrat Richard Blumenthal [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/23/lawmakers-urge-delay-in-control-tower-furloughs/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/19/airlines-pilots-sue-government-over-furloughs/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/19/airlines-pilots-sue-government-over-furloughs/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:37:09 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=238093 WASHINGTON — Predicting a nightmarish air travel snarl that will stretch from coast to coast, the airline industry and the nation’s largest pilots union joined forces Friday to sue the Federal Aviation Administration over its decision to furlough air traffic controllers in order to achieve spending cuts required by Congress. Two airline trade associations and [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/19/airlines-pilots-sue-government-over-furloughs/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/11/airlines-lagging-in-on-time-performance/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/11/airlines-lagging-in-on-time-performance/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:28:16 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=237519 NEW YORK — Airlines are struggling this year to get planes to the gate on time. The government said Thursday that 80.3 percent of flights by U.S. carriers arrived on time in January and February. That’s down from a record 84.9 percent during last year’s storm-free winter. Mother Nature hasn’t been as cooperative. The percent [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/11/airlines-lagging-in-on-time-performance/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/08/virgin-america-best-u-s-airline-performer-in-2012/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/08/virgin-america-best-u-s-airline-performer-in-2012/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:51:37 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=237190 WASHINGTON — Virgin America did the best job for its customers among leading U.S. airlines last year, a report said Monday, as carriers overall had their second best performance in the more than the two decades since researchers began measuring quality of service. The report ranked the 14 largest U.S. airlines based on on-time arrivals, [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/08/virgin-america-best-u-s-airline-performer-in-2012/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/01/supreme-court-leaves-in-place-rule-for-ads-on-airfares/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/01/supreme-court-leaves-in-place-rule-for-ads-on-airfares/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:32:38 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=236725 WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is refusing to review a federal rule that requires airlines to include taxes in their advertised fares, a practice that carriers say violates their free-speech rights. Under a Transportation Department rule that was upheld by a federal appeals court, airlines must display the total cost of a ticket in the [...]

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