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...Budget carriers Spirit Airlines and Frontier Airlines, which advertise low base fares but rely more on ancillary revenue than legacy carriers, opposed the rule as well....
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...The Irish airline, which is one of the largest customers of Boeing’s 737 Max narrow-body aircraft used for short-haul flights, increased the number of engineers it has on site at the US group’s production...
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...The 98-0 confirmation was a “mandate from Congress that is extremely rare in these political times in the US”, said Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA....
...In the early 1990s, for example, Cormican was the chief pilot and flight instructor of Altitudes Flight Training....
...The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers rejected an offer from Spirit and went on strike for five days in June before agreeing a new contract that ends mandatory overtime and raises...
...American Airlines last year invested $200mn for a 5 per cent stake in Gol, with the pair to deepen a code-share agreement (under which companies sell seats on each other’s flights)....
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