09 Sep 2009
| by Jane Bainbridge
The recession has hit low-cost airlines, with passenger numbers flattening as consumers look to cut...;}
When budget airlines such as easyJet and Ryanair first hit the UK market, travellers couldn't believe ...
-frills short-haul airlines, and until last year, this was behind the boom in air travel as a whole. Yet over ...
hobby, the no-frills operators should be in a better position than the full-service airlines ...
08 Dec 2009
| by Alex Brownsell
LONDON - Airlines are focusing on wider reward schemes to ensure customer retention....for airlines to adapt to changing consumer habits. In the past 18 months, consumers and business travellers have cut back on air travel to cope with the economic downturn. Airline marketers have come to realise ...
in choosing which airline they will fly with, a year-on-year rise of 1%. As well as earning WorldPoints ...
04 May 2010
| by Alex Brownsell
LONDON - US carriers Continental Airlines and United Airlines are to merge to create the world...passengers a year, and the merger will see the combined group leapfrog American Airlines to become ...
the Continental livery, logo and colours, but feature the United Airlines brand. A launch campaign based around ...
.unitedcontinentalmerger.com. United Airlines' Glenn Tilton, who will become non-executive chairman of the new company, said: "Building ...
29 Sep 2010
| by Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith
BA has signed a major transatlantic share agreement with American Airlines and Iberia, worth a...British Airways, the transatlantic carrier, has signed a deal which will allow the two airlines ...
the airlines' alliance Oneworld to compete on an equal footing with the other main global alliances that have ...
already signed a merger with Iberia, the Spanish airline, which will operate under the company name ...
12 Sep 2011
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
with Malaysia Airlines for its home shirt and Air Asia, the airline owned by the club's majority shareholder...joined the board of Malaysian Airlines last month, when Air Asia and Malaysian Airlines struck ...
20.5% stake in Malaysian Airlines and the latter's government-owned majority shareholder Khazanah Nasional to take a 10% stake in AirAsia. Malaysia Airlines executive director Mohammed Rashdan Yusof said ...
22 Nov 2011
| by Sarah Shearman
The global airline group is hiring a digital agency to create a Facebook page as the first step ...
for consumers to reach the airline group.
The aim of the Facebook page is to make the brand more relevant ...
objectives of doubling in size within five years and becoming the biggest independent airline in the world ...
15 Dec 2010
| by Sarah Shearman
services and booking process.
It showed that the budget airlines scored among the lowest of the airline sites with easyJet scoring 69.9%, Ryanair scoring 63.6% and BMI Baby getting 61.9%.
British Airways and Virgin Atlantic were the top of the airline category, scoring 78.7% and 78.2% respectively ...
08 Nov 2011
| by Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith
American Airlines will launch its first brand campaign for two years this weekend as it attempts...a different persona to showcase a strand of American Airlines service offering. The ad is supported ...
and managing director, EMEA sales and marketing, American Airlines, said: This new ad is interesting ...
08 Apr 2010
| by Jeremy Lee
in November, to merge and create one of the world's biggest airlines....The new company will be called International Airlines Group but the BA and Iberia brands will continue to operate as normal. The merger is expected to achieve savings of 350m a year. Both airlines have suffered because of the recession and BA, which is beset by strike action that is costing it up ...
08 Nov 2010
| by Ed Owen
British Airways has launched a frontal attack on budget airlines today with an advertising campaign..., Abigail Comber, said: "As no-frills airlines constantly drive down their price, quality has hit rock ...
will feature the extras now routinely paid for with budget airlines - such as checking in charges ...