But many in the airline industry say the deadline for screening checked baggage was unrealistic.
"I've learned that this has meaning for ... people in the airline industry, " Skiles said.
Branson is also trying to push bio-fuels in the airline industry, but the plan is controversial.
It would be in the airline industry's best interests to respond positively, innovatively to this issue.
In the airline industry, size and experience can be a disadvantage rather than an advantage.
But he warned against complacency due to "unexpected risks" in the airline industry.
The marriage cements a decades-long trend in the airline industry toward consolidation.
As the serial bankruptcies in the airline industry have shown, court-supervised reorganization is often just labor negotiation by other means.
Mergers are not new, of course, but consumer and economic trends have accelerated those in the airline industry in recent years.
"Allegiant has one of the oldest and most fuel-inefficient fleets in the airline industry, " said Vaughn Cordle, an analyst with AirlineForecasts.
Greenwald saw plenty of labor scrapes in the auto business, but he says things were worse in the airline industry, and particularly at United.
More consolidation beckoned in the airline industry as British Airways and Spain's Iberia said they were holding talks about a merger.
"Since both of us are used to working in the airline industry, we didn't want a delay on this, too, " Nichols said.
Now the latest round of mega-mergers in the airline industry worry Bauer.
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In the airline industry, mechanical problems are immediately reported and planes are quickly taken out of service depending on the level of severity.
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For similar reasons, Andrew Lo, director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering, suggests separating regulation from forensics, as happens in the airline industry.
The agent said he never heard of this, even with his depth and breadth of experience in the airline industry for all of those years.
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And another cyclical survivor I'd add is in the airline industry.
Bankruptcies in the airline industry have a way of leading to mergers, as carriers use court protection to rework contracts and emerge with better cost structures.
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In the airline industry, Embraer is definitely a namebrand operation.
Fuel costs will control just about everything that happens in the airline industry this year, says Raymond James transportation--air analyst James Parker, the 10th best analyst among all analysts.
But many in the airline industry expressed cautious optimism.
"You're not putting two gorillas in a cage, you're putting a gorilla in with a mouse, " says Marick Masters, a professor at the Katz Business School at the University of Pittsburgh who specializes in the airline industry.
And in a test of how much regulatory capture has taken place in the airline industry, there is a war going on now between the needs of Boeing and airline shareholders and those of people who fly on 787s.
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And, in the current economic environment with slowdown in Europe, weak macro economic environment in the U.S. and slowing growth in emerging markets like China and India, many in the airline industry anticipate low sales for these super jumbos to continue over the near term.
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For example, Southwest Airlines cut the amount of idle time for its planes at the gate by about 50%, which produced a huge fuel savings and dramatically increased plane utilization (one of the highest cost drivers in the airline industry), without negatively impacting service quality.
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Born in Brazil to Lebanese parents--his father, Jorge, worked in the airline industry and was constantly on the road, just as Carlos is now--Ghosn ( rhymes with "own") moved with his mother and siblings to Lebanon when he was 6 and excelled at a Jesuit school there.
The story has become familiar: Born in Brazil to Lebanese parents--his father, Jorge, worked in the airline industry and was constantly on the road, just as Carlos is now--Ghosn ( rhymes with "own") moved with his mother and siblings to Lebanon when he was 6 and excelled at a Jesuit school there.
In addition, the slowing growth in China, India and other Asia-Pacific countries has contributed to an overall decline in the growth anticipated in the global airline industry post the downturn of 2009.
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Lion Air is currently banned from flying to Europe due to broader safety lapses in the Indonesian airline industry that have long plagued the country.
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