January 22nd, 2012
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January 20th, 2012
Delta Air Lines, Inc. (NYSE:DAL) will release earnings on Wednesday, Jan. 25, before markets open, while United Continental Holdings Inc. (NYSE:UAL) will report results on Thursday, Jan. 26, before markets open.
Bob McAdoo, a senior research analyst at Avondale Partners, said that the overall outlook for the airline industry was positive.
“The airlines are not flooded with surplus seats,” he said, making them profitable despite high oil prices.
Delta improves
Analysts are bullish on Atlanta-based Delta, predicting earnings of 35 cents per share in the fourth quarter, up 84.2 percent from 19 cents per share in the previous year, according to Zacks.
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January 19th, 2012
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Alaska Airlines has released its 2012 Air Pass, which offers a range of travel options in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The new Air Pass covers more than 90 destinations served by Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air including Los Angeles, New York, Las Vegas, Vancouver and Mexico City. Passengers can select their choice of destinations and combine them into a single travel document. Flight passes are priced from USD$129 (excluding taxes and fees) for a low season one-way flight within Alaska.
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January 16th, 2012
Amadeus is to become the first GDS to distribute 250,000 hotels available on the Hotel Reservation Service (HRS) portal to the trade.
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January 14th, 2012
Space-starved Hong Kong has long been plagued by high rents and steep hotel rates, vexing university students and tourists alike.
But help may be at hand, thanks to one Hong Kong firm: tiny pods stacked up in tiers to create capsule lodgings at low cost.
Inspired by Japan’s inexpensive capsule hotels, capsule bed manufacturer Galaxy Stars HK is offering wifi-enabled capsules that can be stacked together in cupboard-like formations to ease the high-priced room crunch.
“It’s like Legos,” said Eric Wong, managing director at Galaxy Stars HK, explaining how the units can be pieced together in a matter of days.
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