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New York (AirGuideBusiness - Air Transport News) Aug 16, 2009

Airline ticket sales completely Arlington, Va.-based Airlines Reporting Corp. continued to be OK down in July compared to the year-ago term, but the several of transactions was at leisure secondary than 1 percent year-over-year and belief postal card sales transactions truly rose 2.6 percent. Total sales including airfares, taxes and fees were USD 5.65 billion, down 16.7 percent compared to July 2008, following a 20.3 percent year-over-year fade in June. Total fares sank 17.7 percent to USD 4.81 billion, degree improved in the in front place the 21.3 percent fade in June.

Domestic fares dropped 14.9 percent to USD 2.72 billion on a 0.24 percent fall in transactions and cosmopolitan fares were down 20 percent to USD 2.09 billion on a 2.3 percent abate in transactions.ARC Director-Strategic Communications Allan Muten said, "We're fetching on acme of the world with the in business in transactions." But he added that "clearlythe dollars and yields are not where they paucity to be." He observed that the improving bent in sales along with reflects the occurrence that the US saving started heading down decisive summer. He popular that ARC at the produce time has a itemize 180 participating carriers. Air Botswana joined yesterday and former to that, Zambezi Airlines. The privately owned Lusaka, Zambia-based drayman commenced operations decisive year, according to ARC, operating to Johannesburg from Lusaka, Ndola and Livingstone and to Dar es Salaam from Lusaka with 737-500s. Aug 14, 2009

The mostly Air Transport Association of America mostly (ATA) filed comments expressing unsmiling and large concerns around a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposed setting that would rewrite aviatrix, do a moonlight flit slave, do a moonlight flit operator and dispatcher training requirements. In outstanding, ATA said it believes that the suggestion could adversely bump informed Obest practiceO training programs [ETH] a happen neither the FAA nor the enterprise yearning to regard. Instead of reports precisely to a indisputable run, ATA recommends that the FAA put off that rulemaking and directly convene an Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) to give a song to the profuse conflicts and inconsistencies identified in the ATA comments. Aug 13, 2009

Brazil's servant airline rider gurgle rose 25.6 percent in Julyfrom a year earlier, according to figures released before the Civil Aviation Agency, or Anac, Thursday. Passengers flew 4.23 billion kilometers on servant flights in July, while to hand capacity for kilometers rose 15.3 percent to 6.32 billion, according to Anac. The numbers were degree further June figures, still. The for the lion's share part consignment lender was 66.9 percent compared with 65.44 percent in June. Aug 13, 2009

The Association of European Airlines (AEA) has labelled up to date declines in rider volumes as "heavily negative". The Association's airline segments reported blanket volumes down 6.5 percent in June year-on-year. "The June figures, while plainly not as very as the minus 8.3 percent recorded in May, remained heavily adversarial," the AEA said. A minute extend in shipping was seen on routes to and from Sub Saharan Africa. Middle Eastern and North African shipping had along with shown rehabilitation. Flights within the EU clich‚ shipping fade 6.3 percentin June year-on-year while North Atlantic touring was down 7 percent.The Association said shipping separating Europe and the Far East was thehardest triumph in June having fallen 10.7 percent year-on-year, the in front double-digit extinction since the 2003 SARS outbreak. Seat job in June level 4.9 percent compared to the exact same month in 2008, a fade nearly equivalent to that seen in May. Aug 10, 2009

Should the administration influence a condense of the airlines' revenue? That's the latest without question being explored in the U.S. House Transportation Committee. The Committee's chairman, Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minn, askedthe Government Accountability Office to examine whether or not aportion of airline ticket surcharge profits ould be paid faulty to the administration. The charges in without question count additional fees for the duration of checked baggage, meals, capacity for assortment, ticket cancellations and stimulate surcharges. According to administration statistics, airlines sedate USD 1.1 billion in fees for the duration of "excess" baggage in economic year 2008, and USD400 million in ticket-cancellation fees in the in front board of economic 2009. According to CNN, Oberstar said the fees are "excessive" and"might be diverting funds from the federal Airport and Airway Trust Fund, which finances airport spread and repairs." Most vital airlines instil anywhere from USD 15-USD 20 for the duration of each evening bag on a one-way do a moonlight flit. Currently, Southwest Airlines is the barely vital drayman not to instil checked-bag fees. Aug 10, 2009

European airlines and the U.K.'s reigning airport faker Monday signaled that rider shipping is stabilizing after two years of ret falls, but trans-Atlantic shipping, the profit driver for the duration of British Airways PLC, remains in the doldrums and analysts warned that the enterprise isn't equipment for the duration of a advancement anyhow. The Association of European Airlines, which represents 33 scheduled European network carriers, said premonitory figures showed shipping declines eased in July, one-liner of the tor months for the duration of quality touring in Europe owing to the start of the summer holidays. The relationship said July shipping, modulated in takings rider kilometers, was down 2.2 percent on the year, compared with a 6.5 percent fall in June and an 8.3 percent fade in May. Aug 10, 2009

Air India, National Aviation Co. of India

Air India National Aviation Co. of India said in a Draft Restructuring Plan released decisive Friday that in the in front place the next nine months it plans to "enhance [its] well- on [developing an] LCC for the duration of high-density domestic/international routes" forward with an "aggressive itinerary restructuring" and intends to spawn subsidiaries for the duration of its MRO, tutor handling and shipment operations. Within 18-36 months NACIL said it expects "profitable growth" and hopes to twirl at leisure "noncore businesses" andprepare for the duration of an IPO. The followers is seeking administration comfort. Aug 10, 2009

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