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After the justice department approved the merger of Continental Airlines and United Airlines last Friday, Congressman James Oberstar (D-Minn) voiced his displeasure again with the merger and suggested that Congress might just need to reconsider the deregulation of airlines that happened in 1978.

The airlines have been stuck between a rock and a hard place for years. Combined profits of the industry are non-existent and customer satisfaction with airline service is somewhere down there in the range of our approval ratings of congress’s performance.

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In response to the potential impact of Hurricane Earl along the East Coast of the United States, Frontier Airlines has put the following travel policy guidelines into place for customers scheduled to travel to/from or through Newport News, Va. or Raleigh/Durham, N.C. on Sept. 1-4, 2010, and who purchased tickets on or before Sept. 1, 2010.

Customers who have already started their travel may make one itinerary change. Rules and restrictions regarding standard change fees, advance purchase, day or time applications, blackouts, and minimum or maximum stay requirements have been waived. Origin...

Airline will add four daily flights along Northeast route to compete with Delta and US Airways; lower fares foreseen.

JetBlue Airways announced Wednesday that it will start offering daily service from Newark Liberty International Airport to Boston’s Logan International Airport in May, injecting new competition into a Northeast corridor long dominated by Delta Air Lines and the US Airways.

Queens-based JetBlue plans to launch four daily flights between Newark and Boston. The low-cost carrier already makes up to eight flights per day from John F. Kennedy International Airport...

Claiming cargo carried in passenger planes at Indianapolis International Airport will get a little easier Wednesday.

A new $5.4 million facility for shipping and receiving large or unusual freight items carried by airlines is scheduled to open just south of the Col. H. Weir Cook Terminal building.

The Airport Support Services Building is a 40,000-square foot concrete structure at 7899 South Service Drive. The location along the south drive into the passenger terminal building is just east of the cell phone parking lot and is marked with blue signs.

The construction project,...

China Airlines (CAL), Taiwan’s largest carrier, announced Friday that it will open all-cargo flight services between Taiwan’s Taoyuan airport and the cities of Xiamen, Nanjing and Fuzhou this month to meet rising demand from China.

CAL will launch a weekly all-cargo flight between Taiwan and Xiamen in Fujian province on Sept. 4 and one to Nanjing in Jiangsu province on Sept. 11, the company said.

The carrier will also begin twice-weekly service to Fuzhou, also in Fujian province before the end of September, which will bring its total weekly cargo flights between the...

September 1st 2010, Singapore Airlines (SIA) will operate new daily flights for the route Singapore-Munich-Manchester, with two new weekly routes available in addition to the five existing for European destinations.

Air travel, made on B-777/300ER planes in the largest city of Southern Germany, was inaugurated on March 28th 2010, and, until now, was offered for five days a week.

The enhancement in the frequency of the flights to Munich is due to the imminent 200th Oktoberfest, the famous beer festival that will take place from September 18th to October 3rd, 2010.

Munich...