U.S. airlines improved on-time rates in July

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: September 12, 2011
Tags: airline delays, airlines, airplanes, airport, complaints, continental, department of transportation, miami, on-time, philadephia, u.s. airlines

NEW YORK — U.S. airlines curbed long delays in July and improved their overall on-time rates compared with both a month and year earlier, the Department of Transportation said Monday. Only one plane got stuck on the tarmac for more than three hours in July — a Continental flight from Miami to Newark, N.J. It [...]

This time, airlines’ efforts to raise fares do not hold

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: March 28, 2011
Tags: airlines, Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, continental, delta, fare increase, frontier, jetblue, southwest airlines, travel
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The airlines’ latest effort to broadly raise U.S. fares by $10 per round trip has crumbled as discount carriers like Southwest Airlines decided not to raise their prices. After several successful price increases from December through February, two efforts to raise fares this month have died, raising questions about how much consumers are willing to [...]

United, Continental raise many US fares by $10

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: March 21, 2011
Tags: airfares, airline prices, airlines, american airlines, continental, continental airlines, dallas, farecompare.com, jet fuel, jet fuel costs, u.s. airlines, united, united airlines

DALLAS — United and Continental airlines are raising fares on many U.S. routes by $10 per round trip. The increase was confirmed Monday by Mike Trevino, a spokesman for the airlines. U.S. airlines have raised fares at least a half-dozen times this year as they try to offset rising jet fuel costs. The last attempt [...]