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United Airlines, a subsidiary of UAL Corporation with corporate offices in Chicago, the United States, has won a preliminary court injunction against a pilots’ trade union preventing it from taking industrial action against the airline.

Delta Air Lines, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States, and Alaska Airlines, based in Seattle, Washington, the United States, have announced that they will become “preferred alliance partners” along the Pacific Coast.

GoAir has announced a special offer, christened ‘Buy 5 Get 1 Free’, which will enable customers to get a free ticket against the base fare on booking 5 tickets.  Go Air, part of the Wadia Group, is a low-fare carrier currently operating across 11 destinations.

AirTran Airways, the low-cost airline headquartered in Orlando, Florida, the United States, has decided to charge a fee of $15 for the first checked bag.

Porter Airlines, a regional passenger carrier based at Toronto’s City Centre Airport in Canada, has launched a new service between Toronto City Centre Airport and Chicago’s Midway International Airport in the United States.

Air Arabia, the low-cost airline based in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has signed a contract with the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus Industrie for 10 additional, single-aisle A320 aircraft to serve its new hub in Casablanca, Morocco.

Delta Air Lines, which finalised its merger with Northwest Airlines about two weeks ago, has announced 15 new international routes, which would make it the No. 1 airline based in the United States to fly between the US East Coast and Asia.

ACE Aviation Holdings Incorporated, the parent company of Air Canada, has announced that it is “still looking for ways to wind itself down” but that it is unlikely to do so by making a cash offer for the public minority stake in Air Canada.

Among airlines based in the United States, low-cost carriers have topped the rankings for “being on-time and for uniting bags with passengers.”

Jetstar Airways and Virgin Blue, both Australia-based airlines, are waiving change  fee for people who want to delay travel booked to Bali in Indonesia over the next few weeks.

Southwest Airlines, the low-cost airline based in Dallas, Texas, the United States, will launch a new service from Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport to Chicago Midway International Airport on March 8, 2009, with 8 daily round trips and $69 one-way fares.

Singapore Airlines, the national airline of Singapore, has said that it has suffered a 36.2% decline in profits from the previous year and “the outlook remains weak as the global economic recession has escalated.”

Hawaiian Airlines, based in Hawaii, the United States, and having its main hub at Honolulu International Airport in Honolulu, Hawaii, has ranked No. 1 in on-time arrivals among the United States-based airlines.

Delta Air Lines, which took over Northwest Airlines on October 29, 2008, has decided to charge a fee of $15 to check a first bag for customers flying in the United States.

Ryanair, the low-cost airline headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and also Europe’s largest low-fare carrier, has said its pre-tax profits have gone down by 47% at €214.6 million in the first half of 2008, compared with €407.6 million over the same period a year ago, as its fuel costs have more than doubled.

Emirates Airline, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is adding 31 flights a week to India in two phases – from November 2008 and again from February 1, 2009.

Malaysia Airlines, the flag carrier of Malaysia, has begun serving Indian menu from November 1, 2008, in all classes of its international medium and long-haul flights irrespective of fare paid.

Malaysia-based AirAsia X, just one year old, has been given the coveted Best New Airline of the Year Award-2008 Award, instituted by the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA).

Yet another airline has gone under. Sterling Airlines A/S, the low-fare carrier based in Copenhagen, Denmark, has been declared bankrupt after its Icelandic owner, Palmi Haraldsson, was hard up for cash.

At last, the United States Justice Department has approved the much-awaited merger between Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines, thus clearing the decks for the creation of the world’s biggest airline.

Here is good news for some passengers of the United States-based Continental Airlines, the world’s fifth largest airline: Continental Airlines will waive its fee of $15 each way to check a first bag for Chase credit cardmembers and debit cardmembers.

Emirates Airlines has begun its Los Angeles service, marking the first non-stop operation connecting Dubai to Los Angeles. The airline is flying its Boeing 777-200LR on the route, offering 266 seats in a three class configuration and providing up to 10 tonnes of cargo capacity.

US Airways, the low-cost airline owned by US Airways Group, has posted a huge loss in the third quarter of 2008 on account of the huge increase in the prices of aviation turbine fuel as well as fast decline in the price of crude oil that ate into the value of its fuel hedges.

Even as airline companies are reeling under a funds crunch worldwide, Dubai-based Emirates Airline's cargo division, Emirates SkyCargo, has launched a non-stop flight between Dubai and Los Angeles soon. The cargo service to Los Angeles International Airport, which is the 12th busiest cargo airport in the world handling 1.88 million tones ...

JetBlue Airways is expanding its operations at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, the United States, by adding more flights, ground personnel and destinations in 2009.

A new airline called Enerjet will be launched in Canada in 2009 by a group of former executives of WestJet Airlines Limited.

Qantas Airways, the national airline of Australia and the nation’s largest carrier, launched commercial service of its new Airbus A380 Superjumbo, the world’s largest passenger airliner, on October 20, 2008.

Ryanair, the low-budget airline headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, has earned, in a poll, the dubious distinction of being “the least favourite airline” for the third successive year.

Ryanair accuses fuel supplier Air BP of profiteering, urges UK’s economic regulator to probe increased fuel costs

American Airlines, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States, plans to buy as many as 100 new, long-range Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.