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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]