In the U.K. international airline industry if you're not competitive, you go to the wall.
So too are its partners in Star, the largest of the international airline alliances, Lufthansa and Air Canada.
As one might expect, the international airline industry is less than enthusiastic about this new wave of governmental intervention into its business practices.
The accolades he refers to include an award for best international airline in North America for three years running in the World Airline Awards.
Global excitement from that 1927 flight sparked the beginning of a "new cycle, " Piccard said, which led to the international airline industry we enjoy today.
The grounding was a flashpoint in a long-term battle between Qantas and unions representing pilots and engineers working for the Australian domestic and international airline.
Yesterday, French President Jacques Chirac underscored his government's intention to push forward with one such tax - on international airline travel, both as a unilateral initiative and together with Germany, Spain, Algeria, Brazil and Chile at the UN meeting.
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All other things being equal, the precedent created by an international airline levy-funded UNITAID for fighting disease will likely result in a determined campaign aimed at imposing a variety of globotaxes whereby Bill Clinton's rich friends will help soak the American taxpayer.
"The only way an international airline can fly from one country to another is if there's a bilateral agreement between the two countries -- and that agreement will invariably express that each airline has to be substantially owned and effectively controlled by nationals of their country, " he said.
The carrier also was named best North American airline for international travel and best North American airline in-flight experience (as voted on by readers of U.S. magazine Business Traveler).
On July 1, France began implementing an international tax on airline travel and nine nations have announced that they will follow suit.
Napolitano said top Homeland Security Department officials are embarking on a multicontinent tour to meet with international counterparts about airline and airport security.
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Mr. Gaffney warns that, unless President Bush acts to prevent it, the sub rosa global taxes agenda will likely be advanced at the upcoming G-8 meeting, where several members (notably, France, Britain and Germany) are committed to promoting such "solidarity levies" and, as of 1 July, the French have already instituted a prototype international tax on airline travel.
At JFK, Delta carries more arriving international travelers than any other airline, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the local airports.
Walsh said that it would be inappropriate for him to accept the money after the Terminal 5 fiasco sent the once respected airline's international reputation to rock bottom.
He added the airline could have operated international flights from Belfast International Airport.
Ms. KELLY BUTLER(ph) (Airline Passenger, Logan International Airport): I thought about a car, but that's a 13-hour drive, so.
Ms. CANDACE CLEMENS(ph): (Airline Passenger, Logan International Airport): I cleaned my whole purse out, which was something that has needed to be done for about a year.
Ms. ALICE KAYLOR (Airline Passenger, Logan International Airport): We've had to be creative about how we're going to change him if he has an accident on the plane.
Ms. BRANDY VOSE (Airline Passenger, Logan International Airport): They've taken all these precautions, but now it's the liquid thing, and it's kind of almost a moot point, you know?
And according to the International Air Transport Association, an airline trade organization, there were 2.84 billion commercial passengers last year, which would roughly mean your average odds of dying on a commercial flight were roughly one in 7.6 million in 2011.
"You task airlines to come up with solutions, and they will come up with solutions, " says David Bourne, a Boeing 747 captain and director of the airline division at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents workers at more than 20 U.S. passenger carriers.
Last week, the airline kicked off its first international 787 service between Los Angeles and Tokyo.
As things stand now, however, our only hope of avoiding such ominously precedential "solidarity contributions" - whether they be imposed on airline tickets, currency transactions, international commerce or the internet - is for your view to be faithfully, articulately and effectively represented at the UN.
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IdeaWorks, which consults to airlines on loyalty programs and ancillary revenue projects, picked 20 of each airline's busiest routes, both international and domestic.
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Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York, the airline said.
Bankia - which lost 3bn euros last year and expects to lose 19bn euros this year - said it would shrink itself by some 50bn euros by selling assets to Sareb, and also by cutting back on lending and by selling off investments in Spanish industry, including a 12% stake in International Airlines Group, the owner of Spanish national airline Iberia and of British Airways.
The airline Jet2 is to resume flights at Belfast International Airport on Wednesday, after it suspended its operations due to safety concerns.
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The airline Jet2 has temporarily ceased flying from Belfast International Airport because of what is says are increased safety concerns during a runway maintenance programme.
According to the International Air Transport Association, this is because upper-class passengers, although a small minority among international air travelers, account for almost a third of airline revenues.
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