United Airlines (UAL) Q4 2023 earnings

United Airlines (UAL) Q4 2023 earnings

A United Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft lands at San Francisco International Airport on March 13, 2019. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images United Airlines on Monday forecast a first-quarter loss due to the Federal Aviation Administration’s grounding of Boeing 737 Max 9 planes this month after a part blew out during an Alaska Airlines … Read more

SoftBank leads $104 million investment in travel startup TravelPerk

SoftBank leads 4 million investment in travel startup TravelPerk

TravelPerk CEO and co-founder Avi Meir. TravelPerk Barcelona-based startup TravelPerk, which helps automate corporate travel and expenses, has raised $104 million in fresh funding from Japanese tech investing giant SoftBank and a flood of other names, to invest in artificial intelligence development and new products. The company said Tuesday that it raised the cash in … Read more

United Airlines (UAL) Q4 2023 earnings

United Airlines (UAL) Q4 2023 earnings

A United Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft lands at San Francisco International Airport on March 13, 2019 in Burlingame, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images United Airlines on Monday forecast a first-quarter loss due to the FAA grounding of Boeing 737 Max 9 planes this month after a part blew out during an Alaska … Read more

Spirit Airlines stock rebounds after appeal of JetBlue merger block

Spirit Airlines stock rebounds after appeal of JetBlue merger block

Spirit and JetBlue planes at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023.  Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images Spirit Airlines shares jumped about 10% Monday after the budget carrier and JetBlue said after the market closed on Friday they would appeal a federal judge’s ruling … Read more

China poses growing threat to U.S. auto industry

China poses growing threat to U.S. auto industry

A BYD Seagull small electric car is on display during the 20th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images DETROIT – Chinese automakers pose a growing threat to their American counterparts — even without selling directly to consumers in the U.S. … Read more

How Spirit Airlines’ shaky future could make American travel worse

How Spirit Airlines’ shaky future could make American travel worse

Spirit Airlines airplanes at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. Spirit Airlines Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on October 26. Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A federal judge’s order blocking a $3.8 billion-dollar deal that would … Read more

JetBlue and Spirit appeal judge’s ruling that blocks their proposed merger

JetBlue and Spirit appeal judge’s ruling that blocks their proposed merger

Spirit and JetBlue planes at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023.  Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines on Friday said they are appealing a federal judge’s ruling issued earlier this week that blocks the two carriers’ planned merger on … Read more

Air freight soars as Red Sea vessel risks make more shippers nervous

Air freight soars as Red Sea vessel risks make more shippers nervous

HANGZHOU, CHINA – APRIL 6, 2023 – A Cargo plane of Maersk AIR Cargo is seen at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, April 6, 2023. On November 4, 2023, the international shipping industry giant Maersk’s revenue in the third quarter of 2023 was 12.13 billion US dollars, down 46.73% year-on-year; Net … Read more

JetBlue to cut some routes after judge bars Spirit purchase

JetBlue to cut some routes after judge bars Spirit purchase

The JetBlue drop-off area at New York’s LaGuardia Airport on Oct. 31, 2023. Leslie Josephs/CNBC JetBlue Airways told staff this week that it will cut some routes and service as it struggles to return to profitability and grapples with the fallout of its blocked plan to buy Spirit Airlines. JetBlue said it will stop flying … Read more

JetBlue-Spirit ruling doesn’t spell doom for Alaska-Hawaiian merger

JetBlue-Spirit ruling doesn’t spell doom for Alaska-Hawaiian merger

Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines planes takeoff at the same time from San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in San Francisco, California, United States on June 21, 2023. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images President Joe Biden’s Justice Department has successfully had two airline linkups halted in court in recent months. That doesn’t necessarily spell … Read more