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We estimate that after losing $4 billion pretax in 2005 and $28 billion over the past five years, the U.S. passenger airlines could approach break-even in 2006.

We're also taking over classical functions like booking, loading, planning. It saves the airlines cost. They don't have to open a bond.

Visa continues to gain ground and as Visa sends more and more transactions over its network, it just gets stronger and stronger. The money will be used, in part, to better compete for co-brand deals with airlines and large merchants worldwide.

We're really seeing almost a stealth rally today. Some of the most beaten-down groups of the last few days -- like airlines and retailers -- are seeing gains. But it's not just them. Five out of 10 S&P 500 groups are up at least 1 percent.

Today the riskiest part of air travel is the drive to the airport, and the airlines use a barrage of stimuli to protect passengers from ennui.

Travelers aren't asking for much. According to this survey, airlines should forget about the latest bells and whistles and get back to the basics, like clean bathrooms and comfortable seating.

Trans World Airlines does not tolerate discrimination in any form, including sexual harassment,

We need to stop the airlines from pulling out in December, January and February. We need to look at ways to keep that from happening.

We have a very robust business plan that enables us to grow the business. Clearly higher oil prices are something we would prefer aren't there, but it does affect all other airlines. It's consistently the low-fare airlines like Tiger Airways that manages all of our costs exceptionally well that are able to cope with these higher oil prices and continue to offer lower fares. And that's what we aim to do.

We have a number of airlines that are at 5-percent load factors. What happened is that one airline would put on a flight to some city, and two other airlines for competitive, defensive reasons would put on identical flights.

You have pretty light volume ahead of the Fed meeting. You also had the Dow have one of its best weeks in 15 years last week, so you're going to see some pullback from that. Airlines are down again and it's pressuring the broader market, particularly the Dow. US Airways' filing wasn't a surprise but it still sets a negative tone.

The overhead must be reduced. With many airlines the sales runs naturally over travel agencies, and that means an enormous expenditure.

What we have seen is degrees of rescue aid, and what I think we will continue to see is support for airlines being perhaps allowable as long as they can show they are making progress and not interrupting a process of consolidation.

We are not offering it or marketing it, but we are having discussions with airlines about it to see whether it's a marketable airplane.

We promised that we would be lowering our season ticket prices and we are happy to deliver. Our entire organization is excited that we were able to reduce season ticket prices on every seat at American Airlines Center. This makes it easier for all fans to afford tickets.

We are happy to welcome Spirit to DFW International Airport. Spirit will add to an already impressive grouping of airlines to offer a great service at an affordable price. I can't wait and I know the public will be looking forward to the new service that is on its way.

We still encourage the airlines to continue with the voluntary 15% fuel rationing where possible.

This nation has been at war, ... Airlines are the front line of that war. We wouldn't think of contracting out our army to protect us against an open foreign invasion. We shouldn't think of contracting out responsibility of defending the internal United States against covert attacks.

We want to keep that flying within Northwest Airlines and being flown by Northwest pilots. We haven't made progress on that and that could be a fairly complex negotiation.

The demand by our institutions was substantial, but we are pleased to work with the American Airlines Center on this public sale. It has resulted in some quality seats being available to the general public.

This whole miles-for-merchandise mini-movement is being forced onto the airlines by their own inability to make good on the promise of free award seats.

There is a big glaring hole here. The largest air travel market in the world is North America, ... It's not like people don't want to use it. The airlines are struggling to figure out the business model and the tradeoff. You add weight to the airplane. Will this and the product cost be paid off during a set time frame?

When Concorde went out of service the business aircraft operators and the airlines thought: we will find a market niche here and we are going to exploit it,

We just were talking about what a great time it is for the American Airlines Center to have two teams to go really far in the playoffs. This is the first time we've got both teams going well at the same time.

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We assume that discussions may occur among the remaining airlines in every possible combination.

We believe he was a passenger on board the United Airlines flight. He stated that the plane was being hijacked.

Trying to put two airlines together from an IT standpoint, there's no way around it--it's ugly, it's expensive, and it takes a long time.

This segment, which is focused on the business class and people who don't want to stop three or four times during a flight, promises high margins and is an area airlines want to appeal to.

This will cost revenue for airlines serving the whole region because people will now be spending whatever discretionary income they have on home repair, not travel.

The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, ... recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon.

There are a few scattered minor delays as the airlines play catch-up with the flights that were delayed from this morning, but by this evening we should be back on track and tomorrow should be business as usual.

With the airlines reducing schedules, we've already seen that cascade back on airline manufacturers like Boeing. And that has cascading effects on hundreds, if not thousands, of vendors who supply parts and components to Boeing.

When we look at cost savings that are available to Alaska Airlines at this point, there is not a lot of low hanging fruit left.

Extending emissions trading to the aviation sector will limit these emissions and ensure that aviation, like all other sectors, contribute to reducing the harmful greenhouse gases. Through emission trading, airlines will be able to do so at the least possible costs.

but other than that, the airlines are doing this on a volunteer basis. The crews on board are all volunteers.

Today you have Southwest Airlines in a reactive mode opening up cities they probably would not have opened up.

While they stood, the Mommy said if you ever want to be the first person to board an airplane and if you want to travel with your pet, you can do both, easy. The airlines have to let crazy people carry their animals on their laps. The government says so.This is more important information to live by.

We already have seen the serious congestion and frustrating delays that passengers face when one of the major airlines has labor difficulties. I shudder -- I shudder to think of the impact on the flying public if a merged United-US Airways would face a work stoppage.

The orders this year are ... an endorsement by the airlines of the world. What's being validated here is the Boeing Commercial Airplanes strategy for the last six years. That's the incredible story of 2005.

The other airlines have not been making significant compromises. United Airlines certainly didn't. It's hard to imagine that Delta would cave, but who knows?

The other airlines by virtue of the bankruptcy court have reduced their labor costs below where ours is today. That represents a competitive problem.

There is no international agreement to introduce emissions trading for global aviation and we do not want the EU scheme to be sidelined by international disputes or for EU airlines competitiveness to be jeopardized.

This voluntary inspection should alleviate public concerns following the Alaska Airlines accident.

Twenty-five years ago I was traveling from Chicago to New York on a United Airlines flight. Went to the bathroom, washed my hands, soapy water, the ring slipped off, put it on the sink .

What took the airlines so long to file?

We've received the information from Southwest Airlines and will provide it to the senator as part of his efforts to hear from all sides on this important issue.

We've raised millions of dollars for this worthy cause over the past 21 years through Celebrity Ski. All of us at American Airlines are dedicated to supporting our communities, and that commitment from our employees and partners shows in long-running efforts like this one.

What are the practical benefits of getting dinged by six different airlines on your computer at the same time?

What American Airlines proposes to do for TWA, for the 20,000 employees worldwide, is to buy the assets and keep it operating.

We specifically flew a plane down for that purpose. We've been told that a couple of other airlines are doing it too.

Throw in cyclical and season demand, high capital or (aircraft) leasing expenses, and low variable costs with cutthroat competition, and it is no wonder that airlines lose more money than they make.

Too many airlines have been forced into bankruptcy, never to return. ...The terms of this recovery proposal will help protect United Airlines, our members and their families.

Too many airlines have been forced into bankruptcy, never to return,

We just got word that Virgin Airlines (which Branson owns) was awarded a commercial route into Shanghai. So the balloon must be doing some good.

When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened.

We expect that as the capacity for the airlines and hotels comes on line that there will be a mad rush, so it's very important that if you haven't already begun to plan your trip for the millennium, over the course of the next month, it's absolutely imperative that you do so.

We are very disappointed by this unilateral action by the Venezuelan government and we are working closely with the U.S. departments of State and Transportation, as well as the airlines who received similar notice, to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.

We want a red light or a green light from the government ... We shouldn't be relying on private companies and the airlines to authenticate background checks.

We want a red light or a green light from the government, ... We shouldn't be relying on private companies and the airlines to authenticate background checks.

Both airlines believe that by working together we can deliver substantial public benefits, adding real value for customers and shareholders, boosting tourism and enhancing the further employment and investment potential of both airlines.

Both Air India and Indian Airlines need a massive infusion of aircraft and equity to see they are able to compete in the world.

Eventually, airlines have to buy airplanes. They become economically inefficient because of fuel consumption.

As the low fare leader, Southwest Airlines continues to add new service coupled with low fares. Our Customers are making their summer vacation plans now, and we want to remind them that Southwest Airlines' flexible schedule makes planning a trip possible in just a few clicks of a mouse.

assure me and the public that Northwest Airlines is meeting all necessary standards of reliability and safety.

Different airlines to a better job than others. They all kind of know their laws, and the problems come in, I think, more with attitude and poor service.

Continental Airlines illustrates how IT initiatives are driven by the business need for remote user productivity improvements and IT requirements for simplification and cost reduction. Expand easily overcomes performance hurdles that left unchecked can severely limit the successful implementation of IT initiatives and impact bottom-line results. Our Compass was strategically designed to enable the network and power the end user.

Complaints on the part of passengers are at an all time high, and I'm not sure that the trend in American airlines today is healthy for or beneficial to the American passenger.

Customers don't like their cable TV providers, most airlines or the IRS, either.

Customers will now be able to easily compare prices for themselves between British Airways and the airlines offering lower standards of service.

Essentially, Congress directed airlines to pay TSA what they previously spent on screening of passengers and baggage. And those payments were based on a GAO analysis.

Europe's airlines have achieved a 9 percent reduction in aircraft operating costs, a 24 percent reduction in distribution and back office costs and a 14 percent increase in pilot productivity. Airports, on the other hand, gave the airlines a 13 percent increase in per-passenger costs, with a total bill for airlines and their users of $14.5 billion.

European citizens will all be able to consult the blacklist of airlines that do not meet European safety criteria.

Even Cathay expects to have its flight pretty much back in the air at the end of next month. And I suspect airlines in general will be reducing the level of discounts over the next month or so.

FedEx is a big drag today, Merck is down, steel is down, airlines are down, it's all weighing on the transports,

Every time the trust fund is going down, they say we're going to have to come to the airlines for more revenue. I say you don't have a revenue problem, you have a cost problem.

Except for what might be a small handful of countries, things like air-traffic control, airlines and airports are doing pretty well. I don't think we're going to end up with a long list of countries that are extremely dangerous.

There's only three ways for airlines to improve. Improve load factor, increase yield or reduce costs.

They actually give away more upgrades than almost all other airlines combined.

These airlines are investing in the future and will have a definite edge on their competitors when it comes to bringing this technology to the market,

It would be much better if the airlines did not own this.

It would be wonderful if the TSA wanted to use their dogs with their handlers on our system, but unfortunately that is not an option. You don't see the operational people from airlines handling explosive sniffing dogs. TSA handles it for them.

It would be entirely unfair to the other airlines in the European Union to continue in this fashion because they are respecting the rules,

These days, you don't expect to have fun flying; you just don't want to be hurt. Southwest Airlines does have a policy of not abusing the flying public, and we do appreciate that.

The sector has been pretty terrible up to this point, even without the industry shutdown. So what has happened now is like piling on to an industry that was already down. Barring sharp gains in the overall market, and if the markets goes down, then the airlines may well be down more than the overall market on a percentage basis.

I've long loved emerging markets airlines because they usually sell at bargain prices. The troubled history of developed market airlines unfairly taints these stocks. In the emerging world, they're growth stocks.

Thanks to that liberalization, 13 new airlines entered the Moroccan market, but that liberalization was carried out within the limits of bilateral cooperation with European states and has showed its limits.

Sacrifices by our employees, strong revenue performance and the benefit of our fuel hedging program enabled us to be one of only a couple of major airlines that posted a significant adjusted profit for 2005.

Pricing is dynamic in this industry and we will price our flights based on our competition - both other airlines as well as other means of transport like the railways.

Profits are elusive. Airlines either need to raise fares, or the price of oil has to come down.

Our Customer's demand for travel to and from New Orleans is strong, and we are pleased to support New Orleans by adding more flights. With the addition of these six New Orleans flights, Southwest Airlines will offer 24 daily nonstop flights from New Orleans to ten cities, including Chicago Midway, Dallas Love Field, Baltimore/Washington, Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood, Houston Hobby, Las Vegas, Nashville, Orlando, Phoenix, and Tampa Bay.

Other airlines have found they've grown faster than they could successfully manage. When you add that much capacity, you have a lot of risk during market downturns. You can't stop paying bills for new airplanes just because passengers don't show up.

Our agreement basically says that if they want to buy Reno Airlines, and if they want to operate it, that they bring the pilots under the American Airlines seniority list, and pay them benefits.

Northwest, Delta it seems so many airlines are in this situation. It's not in our control, and there is not a whole lot to do except carry on.

Some people worry that we're going to make the same mistakes that Canadian Airlines did, and I say, 'No, we're not, because we have a much lower cost structure.' And it's not frills that we'll be adding. It's convenience.

Southwest Airlines reconsiders its position for the good of the region.

Southwest Airlines recognizes that tourism and convention business has been, and will continue to be, a major stimulus for the New Orleans economy. We hope that other corporations and organizations also will choose New Orleans as a destination for their conventions and conferences.

Southwest Airlines is making a commitment to Hispanic youth through this education award. We want to help students as they accomplish their dreams of attending college and becoming teachers. We believe it's important to prepare this generation of students whose goal is to prepare many future generations.

Southwest Airlines has been serving New Orleans for 27 years. We are part of this community, and we will continue to be a partner in the rebuilding of New Orleans tourism .

Southwest Airlines Customers are traveling at record rates, and they're asking for more flights. We're pumping up our service to get ready for spring and summer travel.