Check out the latest news and views from the 9th Airline Business Network USA airline-airport route planning event being held in Fort Worth, Texas as Airline Business editor Mark Pilling interviews some of the movers and shakers at this year's event.
Click here as Mark Pilling introduces the event, which is being hosted by Dallas/Ft Worth International Airport.
Click here to hear Peter Bowler, president and CEO of American Eagle Airlines, discusses the carrier's capacity reductions in 2009, what it would like airports to do to help airlines in these tough times and how the carrier sees its fleet changing in the coming years.
Click here to hear Bob Montgomery, vice-president of properties at Southwest Airlines talks about the airline's move into larger hubs like Minneapolis St Paul, New York LaGuardia and Boston, how airports are responding to airline calls for lower charges and whether his airline is going to charge passengers to use the on-board toilets.
Click here to hear Larry Johnson, manager commercial developments at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on how the airport is rebuilding its traffic base and beginning to benefit from the development money being poured into the city and region that was so devastated by the hurricane.
Click here to hear Kristie Van Auken, senior vice-president of Akron-Canton Airport describing how this low fares mecca is embracing social media and online innovations
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Source: Airline Business
