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Celebrating Horizon Air’s 20 Years in Victoria

transmise le 23 avril 2009 par Business Wire

Horizon Air is celebrating 20 years of service to Victoria International Airport with a month-long celebration for all passengers flying from Victoria.

London is new May Day Holiday Top Spot, Skyscanner Data Shows

transmise le 23 avril 2009 par PRNewswire

Data from leading flight search engine, Skyscanner (), shows that London has become the most popular May Day holiday weekend flight destination for Brits this year.

Jetbird launches new Brand, Aircraft livery and Website

transmise le 23 avril 2009 par Business Wire

Jetbird, the Pan-European, private jet airline, today announced the launch of its new brand, aircraft livery and website www.flyjetbird.com marking further progress towards its full commercial launch in September, 2009.

Airline Management "Shoot the Messenger" Policy Threatens Passenger Safety

transmise le 23 avril 2009 par PRNewswire

AEI welcomes the INAC (Portuguese National Aviation Authority) initiatives in dealing with the recent lapses in safety standards at TAP (Portugal's National Airline) and in particular INAC's letter condemning the TAP events that AEI reported. Once again AEI action, in protecting the travelling public by ensuring that safety is upheld, has been proven to be justified.

Pingdom Report Demonstrates That 62% Of Airline Websites Unreliable: Jetblue Worst, KLM, United Top in Global Web Uptime

transmise le 23 avril 2009 par Business Wire

Pingdom, the global uptime monitoring service, reports that airline websites have an average of more than 44 hours of outages annually. This is considerably worse than the average Internet website (35 hours). The outages deny time-critical and vital information and transactions for customers, investors and other stake holders. KLM and United had the least downtime of the 42 monitored airline websites, less than half an hour during the monitored four-month period, while JetBlue had well over three full days of downtime.

NASDAQ Panel Grants Velocity’s Request for Continued Listing

transmise le 23 avril 2009 par Business Wire

Velocity Express Corporation , the nation’s largest provider of time definite regional delivery solutions, today announced that the NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Panel has granted the Company’s request for continued listing on The NASDAQ Capital Market. The Company’s continued listing on NASDAQ is subject to the Company’s compliance with certain conditions, including demonstration by the Company that it has regained compliance with NASDAQ’s minimum stockholders’ equity requirement of $2.5 million or with one of the alternative listing criteria, as set forth in NASDAQ Marketplace Rule 5550(b) (formerly Rule 4310(c)(3)) by August 3, 2009. While the Company is executing on its plan to regain compliance, there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to do so.

GATX Corporation Reports 2009 First Quarter Results

transmise le 23 avril 2009 par Business Wire

GATX Corporation today reported 2009 first quarter net income of $27.6 million or $.56 per diluted share, compared to net income of $51.8 million or $1.03 per diluted share in the first quarter of 2008. The 2009 first quarter results include a negative after-tax fair-value adjustment of $11.6 million or $.23 per diluted share related to certain interest rate swaps at GATX’s AAE Cargo affiliate, and the 2008 first quarter results include a $6.8 million or $.13 per diluted share after-tax benefit from the reversal of tax reserves.

US Airways Group, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2009 Financial Results

transmise le 23 avril 2009 par Business Wire

US Airways Group, Inc. today reported its first quarter 2009 results. Net loss for the first quarter was $103 million, or ($0.90) per share, which includes net special credits totaling $157 million. This compares to a net loss of $237 million, or ($2.58) per share for the same period last year. Excluding net special credits, the Company reported a net loss of $260 million for its first quarter 2009, or ($2.28) per share. This compares to a net loss excluding special credits of $240 million, or ($2.61) per share for the same period last year.