United Airlines is seeing passenger revenue rise faster than the rest of the airline industry, with business travel and other high-end fares picking up.

The carrier said on Tuesday that January passenger revenue for each mile it flew rose 10.5 percent. That gain is three times bigger than the airline industry as a whole.
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U.S. airline passenger numbers will reach 1 billion in 2023, two years later than projected, because of slow economic growth, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

The revision in the agency’s annual forecast follows an “unprecedented” drop in operations last year, when take-offs and landings fell 10.4 percent, said Nan Shellabarger, the agency’s director of aviation policy and plans.
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Here are U.S. carriers, listed in order of their on-time arrival rating for January. The figures are from the U.S. Transportation Department.

1. Hawaiian Airlines, 86.7 percent
2. Alaska Airlines, 85.8
3. United Airlines, 83.7
4. Frontier Airlines, 83.2
5. Continental Airlines, 82.3
6. Delta Air Lines, 81.4
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Southwest Airlines Co. says that winter storms along the East Coast last month cost it $15 million in lost passenger revenue.

Southwest’s estimate on Friday came after two other airlines said earlier this week that the poor weather cost them about $55 million in lost revenue.
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Frequent travelers on Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air can now download mobile applications for the iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile smartphones. The free apps allow travelers to review flight schedules, check arrival and departure times, add mileage plan numbers, receive flight alerts and more.
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US Airways Group Inc. and Delta Air Lines Inc. led the six largest U.S. carriers to a 1.7 percent drop in February traffic as storms caused thousands of flight cancellations.

US Airways had the widest traffic decline at 4.7 percent, and said the storms reduced its revenue by about $30 million last month. UAL Corp.’s United Airlines said yesterday its traffic slid 0.5 percent in that time, and that the storms lowered revenue by $40 million.
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Southwest Airlines is taking aim at US Airways as it expands at Logan International Airport. The Dallas-based airline announced Tuesday it was starting up nonstop service between Boston and Philadelphia on June 27.

Southwest will offer five daily flights, expanding its current service from Logan to Baltimore and Chicago’s Midway Airport. (continue reading…)

Delta Air Lines Inc., the world’s largest carrier by traffic, said its domestic and international flights were experiencing “minimal” delays Saturday after Friday’s alleged terrorism incident aboard one of its Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flights from Amsterdam.
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Despite extensive spending since 2001 on intelligence and counterterrorism programs, sophisticated airport scanners and elaborate watch lists, it was something simpler that averted disaster on a Christmas Day flight to Detroit: alert and courageous passengers and crew members.
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