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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The company is trying to look strong in a land of subsidies and stiff competition.
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When it comes to business travel, you can never be too careful or prepared.
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ROME, Sept. 15 -- The airline industry shakeout that forced U.S. Airways Group Inc. into bankruptcy this week is rippling through Europe as well, with some forecasters predicting that only a handful of the continent's airlines can survive, and Italian authorities scrambling this week to keep national carrier Alitalia SpA aloft.
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US Airways, the most troubled of the nation's major airlines, has had to walk a tightrope the last few months, simultaneously talking tough to its unions while telling customers their frequent-flier miles are safe and the skies are still friendly.
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âMileage runnersâ seek out the longest flights and the most connections hoping to game the airlinesâ frequent flier rewards programs.
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At a time when the airlines are facing their most difficult challenges in recent history, they are running through one chief executive after another.
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After some key changes, the company may be poised for growth.
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The strength of competitive advantage determines the margin of safety required.
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He believes the group has finally found its niche in the fiercely competitive European airline industry, after ripping up a series of earlier business models that had only served to plunge the group deeper into ...
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Businesses whose models share too much in common with the airlines are likely to suffer a similar fate.
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CHICAGO, Aug 18  - Delta Air Lines Chief Executive Gerald Grinstein presented his long-awaited plan for the airline&#39;s future to board members on Wednesday, a strategy that could determine whether the struggling carrier ...
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Some of Europe's biggest train companies are teaming up to compete directly with airlines.
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Statistics show that traveling by corporate aircraft has become safer over the last two decades.
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Why change, when what you're doing works so remarkably well? Right -- that strategy is change.
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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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Chasing relative performance leads to a short-term orientation.