All United Airlines articles – Page 7
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NewsMesa Airlines CFO Zubeck to leave US regional carrier
After working for nearly two years as chief financial officer of US regional carrier Mesa Airlines, Daniel Torque Zubeck is resigning from the company effective 15 September.
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NewsUnited’s bookings remain high as hub strategy pays off: Leskinen
As numerous US airlines revised their third-quarter results estimates due to higher fuel prices and lower-than-expected bookings, United Airlines remains committed to the financial guidance it published in July, touting its hub-and-spoke network as well as its United Next strategy.
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NewsSpirit reduces Q3 revenue forecast due to fuel cost bump
Ultra-low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines has become the latest US airline to lower its third-quarter revenue forecast based on higher-than-expected fuel costs.
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NewsUS carriers adjust Q3 expectations due to surging fuel costs and extreme weather
US airlines are adjusting their third-quarter financial expectations in response to higher-than-anticipated fuel costs and extreme weather events that have disrupted operations throughout North America.
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NewsUnited briefly grounds departures nationwide due to ‘technology issue’
A “technology issue” halted the departure of all United Airlines flights nationwide on the last day of the traditionally busy Labour Day holiday long weekend, and the end of the northern hemisphere’s summer travel season.
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NewsUnited 767 fuselage wrinkled as nose-gear bounced during Houston landing
US investigators have disclosed that a United Airlines Boeing 767-300ER sustained substantial upper fuselage damage while landing in Houston, after its nose-wheel bounced heavily on the runway. The twinjet’s fuselage crown was wrinkled as a result of the 29 July accident, as the aircraft arrived from Newark. Preliminary inquiries reveal ...
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Airline BusinessAirline Business performance tracker: Americas Q2 2023
Key data from the most-recent Americas earnings period – the April-June 2023 quarter – and the equivalent periods stretching back to the last pre-Covid year, powered by Airline Business Insight
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NewsUS and China to allow more direct flights between the two countries
The US government has agreed to allow Chinese airlines to increase the number of direct flights between the two countries more than three years after the beginning of the global Covid-19 crisis, with the government of China apparently reciprocating.
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NewsArcher keeps burning cash as it seeks to ‘take lead’ in air taxi race
Electric air taxi developer Archer Aviation lost $181 million during the second quarter of 2023 as the start-up pushes to certificate its Midnight aircraft.
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NewsUS NTSB attributes Maui near-crash to ‘miscommunication’ in United cockpit
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has attributed a near-accident off the coast of an Hawaiian island late last year to flightcrew miscommunication.
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NewsUS airlines modify schedules, evacuate people from Hawaii’s Maui as brush fires rage
US airlines have modified their operations and begun evacuating residents and tourists from a Hawaiian island as brush fires there have killed at least three dozen.
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NewsMesa posts $47.6m second-quarter loss due to lower block hours and ‘captain crunch’
Mesa Air Group lost $47.6 million during its fiscal third quarter, with the airline’s block hours plummeting during its transition to flying its Bombardier CRJ-900s on behalf of United Airlines.
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NewsUnited sees improvement in Newark as it cuts summer schedule: CEO
United Airlines has adjusted its flight schedule in the Northeast US after an operational meltdown several weeks ago disrupted hundreds of thousands of passengers.
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NewsUnited posts three-fold rise in second-quarter profit as demand surges
United Airlines posted a second-quarter profit of $1.08 billion, as passenger demand for travel at the beginning of the Northern Hemisphere’s summer travel season surged.
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NewsUnited Airlines adds Pacific routes from October
United Airlines is adding new routes between the USA and Asia as demand for flights across the Pacific Ocean sharply climbs.
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NewsUnited Airlines Boeing 767 loses evacuation slide prior to landing in Chicago
A United Airlines flight arriving from Zurich apparently lost an inflatable emergency evacuation slide pack just before landing at Chicago’s O’Hare International airport.
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NewsUnited Airlines and pilots agree on new contract
United Airlines and its pilots have come to an agreement in principle (AIP) on a new contract.
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NewsUS NTSB investigating engine fire on United Airlines’ Boeing 737 Max
A fuel leak may have been the cause of an engine fire that occurred on a United Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft in Newark last week, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says in a preliminary report.
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Airline BusinessAirlines need to prepare for more extreme weather events
It is noteworthy how the recent challenges have been accompanied by a rising tide of studies and reports suggesting that the world will need to brace for more extreme weather events, as a result of global warming.
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NewsAmid United Airlines’ operational meltdown, CEO apologises for private jet trip
United Airlines’ chief executive Scott Kirby chartered a private jet earlier this week as the company suffered an operational meltdown that cancelled hundreds of flights, and stranded thousands of passengers.