Survival of Fittest and Leanest Becomes Strategy for the Airlines
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After half a decade of turmoil, a picture of air travel in the U.S. is starting to emerge, and it is far different from the caring image the airlines like to present.
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US Airways employees have already survived two rounds of cuts to salaries, benefits and in some cases, rank. Thousands have been laid off.
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Two major airlines and four start-ups scramble for pieces of the all business-class market.
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FOR two weeks every other month, Andy Jent heads from Dallas to Asia for a regional meeting with clients of CXO, his crisis-management firm. But rather than use a conventional travel agent or reserve flights online, Mr. Jent books his trip through the international reservations department at oneworld, a global alliance of 10 airlines anchored around American Airlines.
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After some key changes, the company may be poised for growth.
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The airline industry, struggling to extend a multiyear recovery, will try and keep planes flying as full as possible as it transitions from the hectic summer travel season to a much slower autumn.
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I was traveling on Southwest Airlines a couple of days ago.  It  was kind of weird.  Seemingly, they have implemented a new corporate  policy.
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Boeing is adopting a new strategy as it faces a new wave of orders that, if not managed right, could swamp the company again.
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Major U.S. airlines, facing intense  competition from low-cost carriers within the United States,  are shifting their focus to international routes as they search  for ways to drum up profits.
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DALLAS -- One of the goals of financial planning is to be prepared as much as possible for the uncertainties of the future.
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Why change, when what you're doing works so remarkably well? Right -- that strategy is change.
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US Airways&#39; struggle to survive began 27 years ago, with a visit from economist Alfred Kahn. This is one in an occasional series about the rise of US Airways, the
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Here are a few companies primed for growth.
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Some of the world's major airlines, already bedeviled by competition from cut-rate carriers, are facing a fresh challenge from Gulf-based companies that are churning out huge profits and buying up new aircraft in great numbers.
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Companies whose business models share too much in common with the airlines are likely to suffer a similar fate.
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Three of the nation's largest airlines announced steep cost and job cuts yesterday in an effort to return to profitability and better position themselves for long-term survival.
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The strength of competitive advantage determines the margin of safety required.