A United Airlines pilot was this week arrested for allegedly consuming too much alcohol before entering the cockpit. The arrest was the latest in a string of incidents concerning airline pilots and intoxication.
Erwin Vermont Washington was ready to take off with 124 passengers aboard his United Airlines flight from London’s Heathrow Airport bound for Chicago. However, Washington was relieved of his position at the final moment and suspended immediately by United. He now faces the possibility of up to two years inside a British jail if he is convicted on criminal charges. Washington becomes the third pilot from the United [...]

United Airline’s Mileage Plus cardholders are now able to redeem their frequent flyer points for car hire and hotel bookings.
At present the car rentals are only available in Canada and the US but the redemption and booking components can be made from anywhere in the world. United is offering car hire through partners Budget, Alamo and Dollar and customers can search through vehicles at a range of points. Starting at around 10,000 points per day, a full range of vehicles can be booked by the points system with costs varying depending on model, location and company.
As with any membership scheme [...]

As Airlines fight to lower all possible costs one recent decisions is being fiercely fought by travel agents. United has decided to pass along the credit card fees of 2%-3% of the total air ticket to 28 travel agencies. These prices have always been paid by airlines, but United has asserted that it may be time for a change. If other airlines follow suit and are successful this could represent a savings of billions of dollars to the air industry.
A spokesman for united wrote in a letter to the US House of Representatives “in no way was this intended to [...]

September has been a rollercoaster month for United Airlines. Just last week an old news story caused shares of the airline to plummet as investors were told United was heading toward bankruptcy. After the story was sorted out shares of the airline quickly increased. This week the airline is being honored as the “Best North American Airline” at the Asia Pacific Travel Awards.
This high honor has been awarded to the airline for the last seven years proving that international travelers prefer United over other carriers operated out of the United States. A representative from United Airlines said “The Asia-Pacific region [...]

With fuel prices stabilizing, for the moment, many passengers are asking why a major US airline is raising its second-bag fees. Even though the price for fuel has dropped from a high of $147 per barrel to less than $96 per barrel in recent weeks, United has elected to raise their fees, anyway. A spokesperson for the airline says that it is because the airline is still paying prices that are more than 50 percent higher than they were last year.
The airline doubled their old $25 fee to a whopping $50 for a second checked bag. United has said that [...]

Over the past few month air carriers have been decreasing the number of flights both international and domestic citing the rising cost of fuel and poor economic conditions. Based on numbers from several carriers it looks like the cuts won’t be stopping anytime soon. It’s not only small airlines that are reducing flights. Industry giants like American Airlines, Delta Airlines, and Continental are reducing flights as well.
American Airlines is placing a hold on their plans to begin service from Chicago to Beijing for at least a year. Considering the lengths the carrier had to go to in order to secure [...]

United Airlines is going bankrupt. That’s what all the major news sources were reporting over the weekend. It seems that United was the last to know. The latest debacle in the Airline Industry began when an archived article that appeared in the Florida Sun Sentinel in 2002 was noted as the most popular story on their site. This caused Google to believe that the story was new because of the high number of page views which in turn created a disaster for the airline.
When investors saw that the story was being published all across the web and by Bloomberg News [...]

UAL Corporation, the airline holding company, announced on Wednesday that they have named Howard Attarian as the Vice President for Flight Operations. Attarian’s role will be having the responsibility over the every day operations in the Flight Operations Division of United Airlines, including flight technical, flight standards, and pilot domiciles. Joe Kolshad, the Senior Vice President of Operations at United Airlines, said that Captain Attarian will bring more than 30 years of experience in the aviation industry to the airline, including his many years in leadership positions for Air Line Pilots Association, which makes him very suited for [...]

The second largest airline in the United States, United Airlines, is going to axe 13% of their workforce, amounting to 7,000 staff members, and shed more than 16% of their domestic routes in order to cut their expenses due to the record high fuel prices, which continue to rise. This announcement brings their total cutbacks on jobs to almost 11,000, while they try to lower their costs for operating. United Airlines said that they will also be cutting 7% of their international routes, which include their Denver and London route, as well as the route for San Francisco [...]

United Airlines reported on Thursday, July 3rd, that their passenger load factor declined for the month of June.  The traffic of the airline decreased by 3.6%, and the airline’s capacity slipped by 0.6%.  The airline states that the total revenue passenger miles that were scheduled decreased from £5.4 billion to £5.2 billion.  They also said that the available seat miles during last month slipped from about £6.1 billion to £6 billion.
Airlines all over the word have a strong burden placed upon them with the soaring prices on fuel, and the situation in the United States is aggravated even further by [...]