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United Airlines sees even greater April surge in canceled flights due to coronavirus

Lewis Lazare — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:36:29 +0000

United slashed more flights to both East Coast and West Coast markets.

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United Airlines reduces inflight service, shutters lounges due to coronavirus

Lewis Lazare — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 19:27:15 +0000

United Airlines is scaling back its airport lounge availability and select inflight services as passenger traffic falls dramatically because of the global coronavirus pandemic.

Among the cutbacks, beverage options are being reduced across the board. T...

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United Airlines: No job or pay cuts in short term, but airline likely will be smaller

Lewis Lazare — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 19:16:24 +0000

A new memo from United Airlines leaders contains both the good and the bad about the carrier and its future in the coronavirus era.

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United Airlines leaders warn of job cuts if bailout doesn’t happen soon

Lewis Lazare — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 11:59:46 +0000

The carrier's leaders said job cuts, if they come, would be in line with the huge service reductions announced recently due to the coronavirus.

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United Airlines changes course, will keep certain international flights in March, April

Lewis Lazare — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 11:54:35 +0000

United Airlines will reinstate some international flights that it said just hours earlier it planned to suspend.

The latest schedule adjustments are all tied to the coronavirus outbreak and the Chicago-based carrier's efforts to urgently transport cu...

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United Airlines continues to slash flights due to coronavirus

Lewis Lazare — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 13:35:17 +0000

United Airlines on March 17 said it will slash flights by 60 percent in April.

The Chicago-based carrier said in a statement that it was cutting International flights by 85 percent next month and domestic schedules by 42 percent.

All the cuts are the...

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U.S. airline trade association calls coronavirus impact ‘staggering’

Lewis Lazare — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:07:57 +0000

Airlines for America, the trade association for the U.S. airline industry, on March 16 called the sudden impact of coronavirus on the nation’s airlines "staggering."

Airlines for America (A4A) said in a statement that it will recommend to the federal ...

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United Airlines reacts to coronavirus by cutting flights 50%, slashing officer salaries

Lewis Lazare — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:48:40 +0000

United Airlines is cutting capacity by 50 percent for April and May and slashing corporate officer salaries in half, saying in a March 15 memo that the spreading coronavirus has created "an unprecedented challenge."

Cuts could extend into the peak sum...

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United Airlines slashing more capacity to Asia — including from Houston — as coronavirus spreads

Lewis Lazare — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 19:12:55 +0000

United Airlines on Feb. 28 cut more service to Asia and extended some suspensions of service that were already in place.

The moves come as the spread of coronavirus showed no signs of slowing on Feb. 28, with more than 53 countries now said to be d...

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United Airlines suspends many China flights as coronavirus crisis worsens

Lewis Lazare — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 19:55:46 +0000

United Airlines is suspending 24 flights between the United States and China due to the worsening coronavirus crisis in the Asian country.

Chicago-based United (Nasdaq: UAL) said Jan. 28 it is suspending flights from its hubs at Chicago’s O’Hare Inter...

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5 takeaways from United Airlines’ Q4 earnings call

Lewis Lazare — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 14:43:45 +0000

The Chicago-based carrier is delivering strong financials as it grapples with many uncertainties tied to the troubled Boeing 737 Max plane.

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United Airlines trims service between Houston and Ohio city

Lewis Lazare — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 22:45:05 +0000

United Airlines is further trimming regional service to and from Dayton, Ohio, a city with a population of more than 140,000 and a metro regional population of more than 800,000.

A spokesman for United confirmed on Jan. 2 that the carrier will cease o...

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Here are the biggest travel technology trends for 2020

Lewis Lazare — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 14:44:07 +0000

Technology in the airline industry continues to evolve at light speed since the first commercial airline flights took to the skies in the 1920s. With that in mind, airline data behemoth OAG recently forecast which top travel technology trends it believ...

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Southwest Airlines flight attendants ask CEO for financial relief and hiring freeze

Lewis Lazare — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 20:39:47 +0000

The union representing 17,000 Southwest Airlines flight attendants asked the airline on Dec. 20 to postpone hiring new FAs until the troubled Boeing 737 Max airplanes are flying again.

Transport workers Union Local 556 argued that bringing in new FAs ...

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United Airlines bans more animals from flights

Lewis Lazare — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 20:57:16 +0000

United Airlines has taken another step to tighten restrictions on what kind of animals can — and cannot— be taken on board flights as pets and emotional support and service animals.

In the latest move, United is banning all birds and rabbits on board ...

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Airlines expect record travel this Thanksgiving. Houston, Dallas among possible trouble spots

Lewis Lazare — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:56:46 +0000

Thanksgiving is a busy travel season, and that means large crowds in airports and potential service interruptions in the air if bad weather strikes at the wrong moment.

OAG, the airline and airport data behemoth, did some data crunching and came up wi...

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