Change: (May 15) kicks off the first-ever all-business-class service across the Pacific, using an Airbus A340-500 with 100 seats in a 1-2-1 configuration for the non-stop flights   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 420)

Change:  “is the only carrier in the industry with no aircraft on order or optioned. That is not a long-term plan for survival,” they said. The prospect of a United-US Airways merger is also complicated by the fact that the two carriers attempted to merge in 2001 – before   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 179)

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Change: Some media outlets had been predicting that Continental and United would unveil a merger as soon as this week, but on Sunday afternoon (April 27),   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 516)

Change: The Transportation Department said it has finalized changes to its bumping rules, doubling the compensation airlines must pay to passengers who face “involuntary denied boarding”   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 918)

Change: Delta’s domestic network, 83.4 percent for United’s North American operations, 85 percent for American’s U.S. flights, and Northwest reported an amazing 88 percent load factora systemwidestandalone forbasis,” the month. Americancompanies said last week it was working overtime to re-accommodate   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 433)

Change:  American said on Thursday that it expects all of its MD-80s to be back in service by late Satuday (April 12). There are two big problems for travelers: First, the groundings happen suddenly, with little or   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 493)

Change: grounded all flights. The carrier, a code-share partner of Southwest Airlines, blamed the sudden action on the loss of a key military charter contract, which   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 114)

Change:  or by calling 800-435-9282. Southwest Airlines -- which has been code-sharing with ATA since 2005 and took over a number of former ATA gates and   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 645)

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