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1st quarter 2009 airline industry earnings
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2008 Bailout Package
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2012 economy and US airline industry
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2012 economy and US airport industry
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30 years of Airline Deregulation
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35th Annual Faa Aviation Forecast Conference
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787 Production to South Carolina
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AAir Line Pilots Assciation
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Aer Lingus
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AFA-CWA
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AFL-CIO
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agents of change
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Air Canada
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Air Canada pilots
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Air Canada's international powerhouse strategy
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Air France/KLM
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Air Jamaica
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Air Line Pilots Assciation
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Air Line Pilots Association
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air service cutbacks
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Air Transport Association
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Air Transportation Stabilization Board
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airline alliances
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airline ancillary fees
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airline bankruptcy
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Airline Biz
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Airline Biz blog
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Airline Business
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airline capacity
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airline company earnings
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Airline Congestion
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airline connecting timess
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Airline Consolidation
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Airline Data Project
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Airline Deregulation
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airline economic analysis
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airline executive compensation
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Airline Forecasts Inc.
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airline hubs
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Airline Industry
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airline industry and auto industry
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Airline Industry Capacity Cuts
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airline industry fatigue issues
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airline industry labor - management issues
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airline industry management-labor relations
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airline industry outsourcing
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airline industry performance across the business cycles
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airline industry priorities for 2009
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airline industry stakeholders
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airline industry survivors
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airline issues in 2008
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airline labor
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Airline Labor
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airline labor productivity
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Airline Liquidations
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Airline Management
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airline management - labor relations
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Airline Networks
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Airline Passenger bill of rights
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airline revenue relationship to GDP
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airline seniority
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airline slot swaps
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airline strikes
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airline unit labor costs
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Airlines and Banks as Network Industries
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airlines investing in green technologies
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Airports Council International
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AirTran Airways
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Alan Joyce
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Alaska Airlines
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Alitalia
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Allegheny-Mohawk Labor Protective Provisions
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Allegiant
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Allegis
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Allied Pilots Association
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Aloha Airlines
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ALPA
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Amadeus
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America West Airlines
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America West pilots
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American - jetBlue commercial arrangement
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american - us airways potential merger
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American Airlines
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American Airlines Bankruptcy
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American Airlines Cornerstone Strategy
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american airlines flight attendants
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american airlines places a 787 order
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American Airlines v. Sabre
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American Association of Airport Executives
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American Eagle Airlines
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American ordering new Airbus and Boeing airplanes
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AmericanAirlines
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AMFA
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AMR Bankruptcy
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Ann Keaton
(1)
antitrust analysis of airline markets
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antitrust immunity
(2)
Anti-Trust Immunity
(1)
APA
(6)
APFA
(7)
are airlines too big to fail?
(1)
Arizona Repbulic
(1)
Arizona Republic
(1)
Association of Flight Attendants
(2)
Association of Professional Flight Attendants
(5)
ATA Airlines
(3)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
(2)
Atlantic Southeast Airlines
(1)
auto industry and airline industry
(3)
average airline worker compensation
(1)
aviation agenda for president-elect obama
(1)
Aviation Daily
(3)
Aviation Week
(1)
Aviation Week and Space Technology
(1)
Avondale Parters analysis of AMR
(1)
Bank of America Merrill Lynch airline analysis
(1)
Bankruptcy
(1)
bankruptcy in the airline industry
(1)
banks and airlines
(1)
Barney Gimbel
(1)
Basketaball Hall of Fame
(1)
Ben Bernanke
(1)
Benet Wilson
(1)
Bill Greene
(1)
Bill Musto
(1)
Black Monday
(1)
Bloomberg
(1)
Blue Ribbon Commission to study the US airline industry
(1)
bmi
(2)
Bob McAdoo
(1)
Bob Reed
(1)
Boeing Company
(5)
Bombardier
(1)
booking airline travel
(1)
boom and bust earnings cycles
(1)
Bowl Championship Series
(1)
Boxer-Snowe Amerndment
(1)
Boyd Group International
(1)
Boyd Group International Aviation Forecast Summit
(1)
Boyd International Aviation Forecast Summit
(1)
Boyd International Fleet Forecast
(1)
breakdown of airport system by enplanements
(1)
Brian Pearce
(1)
British Airways
(10)
Brookings Institute
(2)
Bruce Ashby
(1)
Brussels Airlines
(1)
Bryan Bedford
(3)
Bryan Pierce
(1)
b-scale wage construct
(1)
B-scale wages in US airline industry
(1)
BTC
(1)
business airline travel
(1)
Business Travel Coalition
(10)
Business Week
(3)
buyer's strike
(1)
Calin Rovinescu
(1)
Capacity Discipline
(1)
capital is global and labor is local
(1)
capital preservation
(1)
Captain David Bates
(1)
Captain Jay Pierce
(1)
Captain John Prater
(2)
Captain Lee Moak
(2)
Captain Paul Rice
(2)
Captain Steve Wallach
(1)
Carl van Clausewitz
(1)
Caroline Salas
(1)
Caroline Van Hasslet
(1)
catalysts for consolidation
(2)
Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation
(1)
charging for checking bags
(1)
Charlie Bryan
(1)
Chicago Tribune
(1)
Chrysler bankruptcy
(1)
Chrysler bankrutpcy
(1)
Citibank - Wachovia
(1)
Cliff Winston
(2)
Colgan flight 3407
(4)
Congressional Hearings
(1)
congressional testimony on airline mergers
(1)
Congressman James Oberstar
(4)
Congressman Jim Oberstar
(14)
consolidation of airlines
(1)
Consumer benefits from airline deregulation
(1)
Continental - United Alliance
(4)
continental airline flight attendants
(1)
Continental Airlines
(19)
Continental Airlines Joins the STAR Alliance
(1)
Continental pilots
(2)
cooling off period
(2)
cost of jet fuel
(3)
cost per available seat mile
(1)
crack spread for jet fuel
(1)
creating a North American airline
(1)
Daily Mail
(1)
Daily Times in Pakistan
(1)
Dallas Love Field
(1)
Dallas Morning News
(4)
Daniel Shurz
(1)
Darwinian theory to airlines
(1)
Dave Bates
(1)
David Duval
(1)
David Field
(1)
David Henry
(1)
Dawn Gilbertson
(2)
Deb Meehan
(1)
Defined Benefit Pension Plans
(1)
deleverage
(1)
Delta - US Airways slot swap
(2)
Delta Air Lines
(34)
Delta Airlines
(8)
Delta-Northwest Merger
(16)
Delta-USAirways Merger
(1)
Department of Justice
(2)
Derek Kerr
(1)
Derek Sadubin
(1)
Detroit News
(1)
Direct Connect technology
(1)
disinflation
(1)
Doug Parker
(9)
Doug Steenland
(1)
Douglas McKeen
(1)
Dr. Amy Cohn
(1)
Dr. Craig Faulks
(1)
Dubai Air Show
(1)
Eastern Airlines
(1)
Eastern Michigan University
(1)
economic impact of air service
(2)
Elizabeth Dougherty
(1)
Embraer
(1)
Emirates Airline
(1)
energy costs and air service reductions
(1)
Envoy
(1)
Eric Reguly
(1)
Essential Air Service Program
(2)
EU Forum on Transatlantic Competitiveness 2011
(1)
events and dates over the 30 years of deregulation
(1)
Executive Compensation
(2)
Export - Import financing of commercial airplanes
(1)
Export Credit Agency
(1)
FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt
(3)
FAA Annual Aviation Forecast Conference
(1)
FAA Call to Action
(1)
FAA Reauthorization 2009
(2)
FAA Reauthorization bill
(1)
failing carrier doctrine
(1)
Federal Reserve Bank
(2)
Federal Revserve Board Beige Book
(1)
Fee Revenue per Available Seat Mile
(1)
Financial condition of US airline industry
(4)
Financial Times
(4)
financing the US airport system
(1)
flight attendant contracts
(1)
flight time duty time rules
(1)
flightglobal.com
(1)
FlightPlan 2020
(1)
Flying Pigs
(1)
Force Majeur
(1)
Force Majeure
(4)
Foregin Ownership Restrictions on Airlines
(1)
foreign ownership
(1)
Fortune Magazine
(1)
fragmentation of airline industry
(2)
Frank Gretz
(1)
Frank Lorenzo
(1)
FRASM
(1)
Fred Gebhart
(1)
Frontier
(1)
Frontier Airlines
(7)
Frontier Airlines; Republic Airways; Republic looks to buy Frontier; Midwest
(1)
Ft Worth Star Telegram
(4)
Future of Aviation Advisory Committee
(1)
Gary Kelly
(2)
Gary Williams
(1)
GDS as a duopolist
(2)
General Accounting Office
(1)
George Hamlin
(1)
Gerard Arpey
(7)
Giovanni Bisignani
(1)
Glenn Engel
(1)
Glenn Tilton
(11)
Global Airline Alliances
(2)
Global Airline Industry
(5)
Global Distribution Systems
(4)
Globalization
(3)
globeandmail.com
(1)
GM Bankruptcy
(1)
government taxing airlines
(1)
Greg Lane
(1)
Greg Principato
(1)
Groundhog Day
(1)
Harry Hoglander
(3)
Harry Reid
(1)
Helane Becker
(1)
Hell No
(4)
Herb Kelleher
(1)
Herbert Stein's Law
(1)
Hirfindahl-Hirschman Index
(1)
History of United Airlines
(2)
Holly Hegeman
(1)
Houston Airport System study on economic benefits
(1)
Houston Chronicle
(1)
Howard Putnam
(1)
Hunter Keay
(1)
IAEE
(1)
IAMAW
(5)
IATA
(3)
Iberia
(1)
ICFAI University Press Analyst
(1)
IFALPA
(1)
immunized alliances
(2)
increased foreign ownership in US airlines
(1)
Institute of Supply Management
(1)
International Aviation
(1)
internet's effect on airline pricing
(1)
InterVISTAS Consulting
(1)
itchell Schnurman
(1)
J. Lynn Lunsford
(1)
Jack Ginsburg
(2)
Jacksonville Aviation Authority
(1)
Jad Mouawad
(1)
JAL
(2)
jamaica
(1)
Jamie Baker
(2)
Jared Wissinger
(1)
Jason Goldberg
(1)
Jay Pierce
(1)
Jeff Bailey
(1)
Jeff Smisek
(6)
Jessop and Lamont
(1)
jetBlue
(7)
jetblue Airways
(3)
Jim Little
(2)
Joe Jenkins
(2)
John Conley
(2)
John Heimlich
(3)
John Maynard Keynes
(1)
John Prater
(2)
Johnny Cash
(1)
Josh Gotbaum
(1)
JP Morgan
(1)
Julie Johnnson
(1)
Justin Bachman
(1)
Justin Baer
(3)
Kari Hernandez
(1)
Karl West
(1)
kate hanni
(3)
Kathryn Mikells
(1)
Kevin Crissey
(3)
Kevin Mitchell
(8)
labor arbitrage in the airline industry
(1)
Labor Department
(1)
Labor Leadership
(1)
LAN Airlines
(2)
Larry Kellner
(2)
Laura Glading
(4)
Laura Wright
(1)
law of unintended consequences
(1)
Lee Moak
(7)
legacy costs
(1)
lending to the airline industry
(1)
Linda Puchala
(3)
Liquidity Trap
(1)
Lisa Caruso
(2)
Liz Fedor
(3)
Lloyd Hill
(3)
lock out
(1)
Lori Ranson
(1)
Low Cost Carriers
(1)
lower airline fares
(1)
Lucas Glover
(1)
Lufthansa
(7)
Lufthansa/Swiss
(2)
mainline pilot scope
(1)
mainline pilot scope as a regulator
(1)
majority rule
(1)
manic monday
(1)
market power
(1)
Martin Broughton
(1)
Maryland basketball
(1)
Maryland Men's Basketball
(1)
Maryland Terrapins
(2)
Matthew Goldstein
(1)
McCaskill-Bond legislation
(1)
Melanie Trottman
(1)
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
(1)
Mexicana bankruptcy
(1)
Michael D. Wittman
(2)
Michael E. Levine
(4)
Midwest Airlines
(3)
Mike Ambrose
(1)
Mike Boyd
(3)
Mike Esterl
(1)
Milton Friedman
(1)
Minneapolis Star Tribune
(3)
MIT Airline Data Project
(5)
MIT Airline Industry Research Consortium
(2)
MIT ICAT
(1)
Mitchell Schnurman
(1)
monopoly power
(1)
Montie Brewer
(4)
Morgan Stanley
(6)
NAMA
(1)
Nathan Hurst
(1)
National Journal
(1)
National Journal Transportation blog
(1)
National Mediation Board
(18)
NCAA Final Four
(1)
negotiation put on ice
(2)
New York Times
(2)
New York Times editorial column
(1)
Nicholas Calio
(3)
Nikkei Global Management Forum
(1)
NMB changes voting rules
(1)
no charge for soft drinks
(1)
Norhtwest - Republic
(1)
North Carolina Tar Heels
(1)
Northwest - Delta Merger
(3)
Northwest Airlines
(15)
Norwegian Airlines
(1)
nprm
(1)
NYU Stern School
(1)
obama and organized labor
(2)
Obama's Secretary of Transportation
(1)
Oberstar
(1)
Oil and the Airline Industry
(2)
oil at $100 per barrell
(1)
oil era
(1)
oil price impact on the airline industry
(2)
Oil Price Speculation
(1)
Olympic Airlines
(1)
On War
(1)
oneworld
(1)
oneworld alliance
(4)
online travel agencies
(1)
Outlook for US commercial aviation in 2009
(1)
outsourcing
(1)
PAFCA
(1)
PAR Capital
(1)
Pardus Capital
(2)
Pat Friend
(1)
Pattern Bargaining in the Airline Industry
(2)
Paul Krugman
(1)
Paulo Prada
(3)
PBGC
(1)
PBS Frontline
(1)
Pearl Harbor Day
(1)
Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation
(1)
Pete Robison
(2)
Peter Coy
(1)
Peter Goodman
(1)
pilot compensation
(1)
Pilot Fatigue
(1)
pilot scope clauses
(7)
Pinnacle Airlines
(2)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
(1)
Planebuzz.com
(5)
Potential bidders for AMR
(1)
President Bush
(1)
President Obama
(1)
President-elect Obama and the auto industry bailout
(1)
Presidential Emergency Board
(3)
Private equity captial in the airline industry
(1)
private equity investing in US airlines
(1)
Professor Amy Cohen
(1)
Professor Robert Lamb
(1)
put it on ice
(1)
Qantas labor issues
(1)
RAA 36th Convention
(1)
Railway Labor Act
(4)
Ray Neidl
(1)
Raymond James' Jim Parker
(1)
Regional Airline Association
(1)
regional airline consolidation
(1)
Regional Airline Industry
(6)
regional airline mechanic shortage
(1)
regional pilot shortage
(1)
regonal jet
(1)
Republic Airlines
(3)
Republic Airways
(3)
Republic Airways Holdings
(4)
Republic Airways pilots voting on tentative agreement
(1)
Republic buys Frontier and Midwest
(1)
Republic looks to buy Frontier
(1)
restoring the profession
(1)
Reuters Travel and Leisure Summit
(1)
Richard Anderson
(8)
Richard Branson
(4)
Richard Thaler
(1)
Rick Schifter
(1)
Rigas Doganis
(1)
Ro Dhanda
(2)
Rob Norton
(1)
Robert Crandall
(5)
Roger Cohen
(1)
Romy Stilwell
(1)
Ron Gettelfinger
(1)
rooselvelt policies; american airlines; united airlines; usairways
(1)
Ross Fisher
(1)
Routes News Magazine
(1)
Russell Grantham
(1)
Sabre
(1)
Sabre Inc.
(1)
Sam Stilwell
(1)
SAS
(1)
scope clause restrictions on regional jets
(3)
Scott Brown
(1)
Scott Kirby
(1)
Seabury
(1)
Sean Menke
(1)
second bag charges
(1)
Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood
(5)
Section 1113 of the US bankruptcy code
(1)
self help
(2)
Senaror Barbara Boxer
(1)
Senate Commerce Committee
(1)
Senator Arlen Specter
(1)
Senator Bob Corker
(1)
Senator Charles Schumer
(1)
Senator Snowe
(1)
Seniority Integration
(3)
Seth Schofield
(1)
Sharon Pinkerton
(1)
Shield and Company
(1)
similarities between auto and airline industry
(1)
Singapore Airlines
(1)
Single Carrier Determination
(1)
Sir Richard Branson
(2)
Sky Talk
(2)
Skybus
(1)
SkyTeam
(1)
SkyTeam Alliance
(3)
SkyWest
(1)
SkyWest Airlines
(5)
Sloan Industry Fellow
(1)
small community air service
(5)
Soren Hansen
(1)
Southwest acquires AirTran
(1)
Southwest Airlines
(33)
Southwest Effect
(2)
Southwest looks to buy Frontier Airlines
(1)
Southwest's route network
(1)
Spirit Airlines
(2)
St Louis Lambert Field
(1)
St. Lous hub
(1)
stagflation
(1)
STAR Alliance
(5)
Starbucks
(1)
Stephen Roach
(1)
Stephen Wolf
(1)
Steve Wallach
(1)
Steven Pearlstein
(1)
Sully Sullenberger
(2)
Summer from Hell
(1)
Sun Country Airlines
(2)
Susan Carey
(9)
SWAPA
(1)
swelbar debunking myths
(1)
swelblog on labor and jet fuel
(1)
Swelblog.com
(1)
Tarmac Delay Rule
(1)
TARP Funds
(1)
taxes on the US airline industry
(1)
Teamsters
(2)
Ted Reed
(2)
Terry Maxon
(8)
The Australian
(1)
The Drive on Washington
(1)
The Economist
(1)
the price of jet fuel
(1)
The Southwest Effect
(4)
the Street.com
(1)
the Teamsters
(1)
TheStreet.com
(2)
Things With Wings blog
(1)
Thomas K. Merton
(1)
three hours or more
(1)
tipping point
(1)
Tom Horton
(5)
tomorrow's airline industry
(1)
too many commercial air service airports in the US
(1)
Top 10 List for 2007
(1)
Top 100 list of people
(1)
TPG
(1)
TPG Capital
(1)
Transport Workers Union
(5)
Transportation Trades Department
(1)
travel agent commissions
(1)
travel agents
(1)
Travel Market Report
(1)
Travelport
(1)
Trebor Banstetter
(3)
TWA
(3)
TWU
(3)
UBS
(3)
unbundling
(1)
Unintended Consequences
(2)
Union Representation elections
(2)
unionization in the airline industry. IAMAW
(1)
Unite Auto Workers
(1)
United - Continental Holdings Labor
(1)
United - Continental merger
(4)
United - US Airways merger talk
(2)
United Air Line Pilots Association
(2)
United Airlines
(47)
united airlines flight attendants
(1)
United ALPA
(2)
United Auto Workers
(3)
United States Gof Association
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United/Contineental Holdings
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United/Continental pilots
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United-Continental- Air Canada antitrust immunity
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University of Michigan
(1)
US - EU Open Skies
(6)
US - Japan Open Skies
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US Airline Industry
(7)
US airline pilot labor
(1)
US airline stocks
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US Airways
(37)
US Airways - America West merger
(4)
US Airways - American labor issues
(3)
US aviation competition policy
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US Congress
(3)
US Congress oversight of US airline industry
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US Department of Justice
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US Department of Transportation
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US DOJ review of potential US Airways - American merger
(1)
us domestic airline market evolution
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US Economic Stimulus Package
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US Government Aviation Policy
(4)
US pilot productivity
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US regional airline industry
(1)
USA Today
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USAPA
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US-EU Phase II Talks
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variable compensation in the airline industry
(2)
Vaughn Cordle
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Virgin America
(6)
Virgin Atlantic
(6)
Wall Street Analysts
(1)
Wall Street Journal
(16)
Washington Post
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William Greene
(4)
William Swelbar
(2)
Willie Walsh
(5)
winners and losers from deregulation of the US airline industry
(1)
Wittenberg University Men's Golf
(1)
Wolfe Trahan Global Transportation Conference
(1)
wright amendment debate
(2)
WWilliam Greene
(1)
www.airliners.net
(1)
www.swelblog.com; US Airline Industry
(1)
Yoda
(1)
October 2014
(1)
April 2014
(1)
March 2014
(1)
January 2014
(2)
December 2013
(1)
October 2013
(1)
August 2013
(1)
June 2013
(1)
March 2013
(1)
February 2013
(1)
December 2012
(1)
November 2012
(1)
October 2012
(1)
September 2012
(1)
June 2012
(1)
May 2012
(1)
April 2012
(1)
March 2012
(1)
January 2012
(3)
December 2011
(3)
November 2011
(2)
October 2011
(2)
September 2011
(2)
August 2011
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July 2011
(3)
June 2011
(3)
May 2011
(2)
April 2011
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March 2011
(3)
February 2011
(2)
January 2011
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December 2010
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November 2010
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October 2010
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September 2010
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August 2010
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July 2010
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June 2010
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May 2010
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April 2010
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March 2010
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February 2010
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January 2010
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December 2009
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November 2009
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October 2009
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September 2009
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August 2009
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July 2009
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June 2009
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May 2009
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April 2009
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March 2009
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February 2009
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January 2009
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December 2008
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November 2008
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April 2008
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March 2008
(9)
February 2008
(9)
January 2008
(9)
December 2007
(6)
November 2007
(7)
October 2007
(9)
Swelbar Writes Op Ed; Stilwell Wins; and the Wissinger Flop
Message to Joe Sharkey: At Least Tell More of the Story
Republic Pilots: Forget the Leaks and Prepare to Change Vessels
A Race to the Bottom
A Walk Across the Last Five Business Cycles
Not the Last Swelblog -- Swelbar to Join InterVISTAS Consulting
US and AA Labor: Stop Hiding Behind the Idea of Consumer Benefits
FINANCING THE AIRPORT SYSTEM SHOULD REFLECT A CHANGING NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
WITTMAN AND SWELBAR: DESPITE SMALLER INDUSTRY, NETWORK CONNECTIVITY REMAINS
US and AA: AIRLINE MERGER and SMALL COMMUNITY AIR SERVICE MEET AT LGA AND DCA
THE END GAME: IT’S ULTIMATELY ABOUT RETAINING THE CUSTOMER
We The People: Does BTC (Business Travel Coalition) Really Stand For Bamboozling The Consumer?
Stuffing the Turkey
Is The Union Leadership at American Really Representing the Membership’s Best Interests?
Facebook: Will American Friend US Airways?
US Airways And American And The Elephants In The Room
Musings From the Last Five Weeks
US Airways at the Masters: Trying to Win on Thursday?
Swelbar Interview With Emirates' Open Sky Journal
Swelbar: Pondering More of American’s Bankruptcy “News”
Swelbar: Just Thinking About A Few Things
How the Weeks Ahead Will Shape AMR In The Years To Come
If History Is A Lesson – American’s Labor Cuts Will Be Large
Airlines and Airports: Two Different 2012 (and Beyond) Stories
American Airlines, Labor Leverage, US Airways and Chicken Little
FORT WORTH, Texas: The Longer It Goes, The Worse It Will Get
“An Unpleasant Situation That Continually Repeats”
The Ultimate Unintended Consequence: Government Proposals Will Kill Small Community Air Service
The UAW Gets It; U.S. Pilot Unions Don’t
Scope Yet Again; Commenting to a Commenter
American: Limited Options, Pain Likely
It Shouldn’t Be About Scope This Time – Rather Benefiting More Than One Stakeholder Is Key
Global Distribution Systems and the Pretense of Consumer Protection?
Thinking About American’s Contrarian Path to Transformation
Congress Considering More Taxes On The Airline Industry Is A Sin
LaHood Protecting Consumers? Pretending To Protect Consumers?
If Greece Is The G in PI(I)GS, Then U.S. Unions Are The P, Government Is Part Of The S’s And The GDS Are One of the I’s
Autos, Airlines and the Question of Union Relevance
In The Airline Business We Just Do Not Talk About Balance Sheets Enough
Regional Airline and Small Community Air Service: It’s Time to Regionalize, Not Marginalize, the System
Air Canada: Hypocrisy and Competition at the Same Time
Pithy Ramblings On The Past 24 Days
To The GDS's: Either Evolve Or Dissolve -- It's That Simple
Jet Fuel and Labor Part II: Commenting on the Comments
Oil and Water; Jet Fuel and Labor
Wisconsin, Herbert Stein and US Airlines
Nature Abhors A Vacuum - Proving True At The Allied Pilots Association
A Flight Attendant Representation Inflection Point?
Unbundling, Rebundling and Now De-Commoditization
Time to Look Forward – Not Back
Will Restrictive Foreign Ownership Finally Lose Its Virginity?
The United and Continental Pilots Engage In MISInformational Picketing
A Post Election Thought: Just How Many Commercial Air Service Airports Do We Really Need?
Swelblog: On Election Morn
Analyst Engel Does RJ Math; Swelbar Opines
Southwest Puts Its Money to Work – Announces Intention to Buy AirTran
Giving Thought to the Export – Import Bank Issue; Not to Protectionism
Dear Chairman Oberstar: What Do You Mean This Is Not What You Voted For?
Time to Rethink the Virtuous Circle
Market Realignment: Labor, Mexico and the U.S. Regionals
Time to Sustain to Avoid the Inevitable Pain
Ramblings on Meddling and the “Public Good”
THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: UNDERSCORING THAT THE MARKETPLACE IS NOW ABOUT GLOBAL FLOWS
Buried Alive: Signed Tentative at American Declared Dead
my testimony on the continental - united merger before the house judiciary committee
Mirror Mirror on the Wall: What about American after All?
Consolidation Is the Logical Next Step in the Industry’s Evolution
The NMB Finally Issues Its Representation Rule: What’s Next For The US Airline Industry?
Mirror, Mirror On the Wall: What About US Airways After All?
Mayday! Mayday! NOT.
Swelblog's First Guest Column: Dr. Amy Cohn on Tarmac Delays
What Would Yoda Say to the APFA?
United and US Airways: Third Time a Charm? I Say “Do No Harm”
Pondering American and jetBlue: Most Interesting
Dear Southwest: Grab Your Bag of Fiction; It’s On
Continental Makes a Most Interesting Proposal to Its Pilots: Delta plus $1
Mainline Pilot Scope: Will Regional Carriers Be Permitted to Fly 90+ Seat Aircraft?
How 'Bout Those Maryland Terrapins
Airline Stuff: A Little of Last Week; A Little of This Week; A lot of Cynicism
Patience and Perseverance: Tilton Walks It Like He Talks It
February 2010: Short on Days, Long on News
Pondering Washington Politics and Dilemmas over Airline Strikes
A Battle for JAL or the Threat of Competition?
Let’s Make Today’s Unions Tomorrow’s Source for Labor
Swelblog’s 12 Airline Industry News Items of 2009
Sacred Cows and Fatigue
Montie Brewer: Five Reasons Why the Airline Industry Will Never be Profitable
Self-Help or Self Sacrifice or Self Fulfilling Prophecy? What Will This Accomplish?
Is the Proposed NMB Rule Change Wright or Wrong?
The National Mediation Board: From Honest Brokers to K Street Politicians
Swelbar on Airlines: Just Thinkin’; Just Sayin’
US Pilot Unions’ Dirty Little Secrets
Two Years Ago Today: No Swelblog.com
Airline Industry Eyes on the National Mediation Board
Nibbling on a Little Crow While Watching Eagles Fly
“Go Ahead, Bite the Big Apple; Don’t Mind the Maggots”
US Airline Labor Says Cyclical; Reality Says Secular
Again Dear Richard: You Are Not A Virgin Anymore
Pondering Southwest’s Potential Play on Frontier
Propagating Harm: Senators Boxer and Snowe; and Kate Hanni
Let’s Just Get It Out There: Would You Loan To a (Union) Labor Intensive (Airline) Industry?
Are Some US Airlines Too Big to Fail? Hell No!
In the Spirit of LAN: Another Emerging Strategy?
Neither Ponzi nor Pyramid, but an End Game Nonetheless?
Is Republic Changing the Face of the US Domestic Market?
Meanderings on US Open Golf and the US Airline Industry
Frontier and Republic; Republic and Frontier
Aboard UA #2: Reading Captain Wallach’s Latest Half Truths
Colgan 3407: Fatigue, Commuting and Compensation
Former America West Pilots Prevail in Phoenix District Court
Can Autos Learn from Airline Bankruptcies?
Capital, Labor and Seniority in the News
1st Quarter Earnings Calls: Unbungling; Unbundling But Not Unshackled
Liquidity, Labor and Legislation
Empathy for Ron Gettelfinger
The United – Aer Lingus Venture: The Chicago Tribune Perpetuating the Past
Thinking about the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book
Jim "Hell NO”berstar and Thomas K. Merton
Sullying the Airline Safety Story
Mumblin’, Bumblin’ and Stumblin’ for Something to Write
A Look at US Airline CEO Compensation Through a Different Lens
Disequilibrium Everywhere; Stimulus Nowhere
In Dallas/Ft. Worth: Compare and Contrast; Contrast and Compare
“South by Southwest”: A Theme of Mistaken Identity; Deception; or the Airline’s New Reality?
Part Trap(ed); Part T.A.R.P.(ed)
Prioritizing US Airline Industry Needs for 2009
In Reality, There Was Only One Airline Story in 2008
AA’s Labor Negotiation Scenarios Get Even More Interesting
PRASM, TRASM and now FRASM? Oh My
Musing on Cars, Planes and Readers
Planes and Automobiles: Why?
Stuffing Romy's Thanksgiving “Turkey”
Delta's Singular Focus: Executing Its Singular Vision
Autos & Airlines: Similarities are Frightening
Airline Labor Relations’ Eyes on Southwest
The Dinosaurs Are Extinct ... Right?
05. The Swelbar Deregulation Index
04. It’s Airline Deregulation Bday Week: Stakeholder Winners & Losers
03. It’s Airline Deregulation Bday Week: Management & Labor; Boom & Bust
02. It’s Airline Deregulation Bday Week: Triangulating Southwest to the Point of Indifference
01. It’s Airline Deregulation Bday Week: Economic Impact of Commercial Aviation
Aviation News Just Breeds Itself in the Dallas Metroplex
Just Who Will Inherit the US Domestic Market? Don’t Forget Today’s “Regional Carriers”
Just Another Manic Monday
One Year Ago Today…….No Swelblog.com
Memorializing Yet Another Date in 2008
“Capital Is Global, Labor Is Local”
These Really Are Dynamic Times
Dynamic, Dynamic, Dynamic; Bless Air Canada; and the Education of Stakeholders
Olympic, Alitalia, American and the Wings Club
Dear Richard: You Are Not a Virgin Anymore
The Global Airline Industry and Its Interdependencies
Horton Says American Means It
STEEEEEE….rike 1
Autos and Airlines: 30 Years Later - No Time for Bailouts
Begging ……. The Questions
Campaign Season: Little Substance and Fewer Facts
The Summer of 2008 ……..
Leverage Detoxification: Banks and Airlines
Speculation, Consternation and Regurgitation
Energy and Air Service to Markets of All Sizes
Are We Beginning to Define US Airline Industry Survivors?
Grab a Big ‘Ol Cup of Jo, and Let’s Talk Airline Service Cuts
The Reality Show Called Airlines
Is Oil A Cancer Or A Cure?
Continental, United and the STAR Alliance
10 Airline Issues That Have My Attention
Identifying the World’s (the US’s) Best
A Recent Swelbar Interview
Rambling, Musing and Pondering on Airline Industry Issues
Contrasting the APA Message with the APFA Message
American Airlines and the Allied Pilots Association: A $3 Billion Question
Unbundling Our Way On The Search To Find The Inelastic Demand
Pondering the Next Move; But Before I Do…….
Now This Is A Little More About What I Have Been Talkin' About
Back to the Future?
Yawn
Let’s Just Continue the War of Attrition
Reflecting on Today’s Congressional Testimony in the DL-NW Deal
The Elastic Induced Ride to Inelasticity
Reacquainted With A Great Quote
April 15, 2008: A Day to Remember or a Day to Forget?
Delta - Northwest Deal Is Real
This Week’s Conversation Will Be In Words that Start With “C”
Is American Airlines Playing the Final Round of the Masters on Thursday?
The First Four Out Are Not the Final Four
Fuel Up, Forecasts Down and Labor at American Airlines Drills a Dry Hole
Still Pondering a Northwest – Delta Combination
Northwest – Delta Back On?
“A Flying Pig”
Not Time For “Hush Money”
Ironical Catalysts; Seniority No More?; and One Last Comment on Force Majeure
Invoking the Force Majeure Clause: Oil Taking Its Toll
Just Wondering, Or Am I Wandering?
The Era of Transition, and Hopefully Transformation, Is Top of Mind for British Airways as Well
Yet Another Prism from Swelbar to Think About US Carrier Competitiveness in the Global Airline Industry
Leaping Into Madness
Time Well Spent; Unchanged Catalysts to Consolidation; and Concerns Surrounding the Delta – Northwest Deal
Where is Swelbar? Thinking About US Airline Industry Structure in Zurich
Pondering a Delta – Northwest Merger Yet Again: Irony and Sad Irony
First Labor Hurdle Cleared in Delta – Northwest Deal?
Thinking about This Week’s Airline News: Industry Structure; Labor; and the Customer
Continuing to Ponder a Northwest – Delta Combination
F + E = LPP^DL: Fairness and Equity; Seniority Integration; Union Representation; and Lee Moak Again
Hell Yes, Going It Alone Remains an Option
Swelblog.com: Taking Great Exception with Congressman Oberstar
Quote for the Week of January 20, 2008
Dear US Government: I hope you are reading the newspaper
Pondering A Northwest – Delta Combination
Converging Catalysts Making a Case for Consolidation?
How 'Bout Those Maryland Terrapins
Consolidation, Mediation and an Explanation
A Little Blackbook on Creative Destruction
01-02-08: Manufacturing Sector Disappoints + $100 Oil = Continued Airline Stock Carnage
Ringing Out the Old, Ringing In the New. NOT
Putting a Few Packages (of Airline Industry Issues) Under the Tree for Readers to Unwrap
It Is True: Lufthansa to Buy 19% Stake in jetBlue
Is It True, Lufthansa to Buy Stake in jetBlue?
Maybe the Allied Pilots Association Is Really Onto Something
If It Doesn’t Add, Let’s Begin the Subtraction Process
Heeding the Divestiture Cry? American to Spin Off Its Eagle Unit
U.S. Airline Management and Labor: The World is Smirking at US
Thank you flyby519
Dear Mr. President (and Congress): These Short-term Solutions to Congestion Gives Me Indigestion
Passive Consolidation Talk Turns Active: Delta and United?
Wondering Thoughts From 5 Time Zones Away
My Beginnings and Increasingly Appreciating Tilton's Message
Swelblog.com: The First 31 Days
Just Put It On Ice: American’s Ability to Pay ≠ APA’s Expectations
Circular Logic: US Airways and the Economics of Entitlement
“I hear the train a "C"omin'”
Transforming the Transatlantic Market Into a Transcon Market?
Self Help
Musings and Meanderings Over the Past Week
All Eyes on Texas
Swelblog.com Taxiing Into Position
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