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Regional impact of Southwest-AirTran merger

The $1.42 billion merger of Texas-based Southwest Airlines (WN) with AirTran Airways (FL), headquartered in Orlando, FL was completed on Monday,...
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Viral email makes AirTran Flight 297 into an urban legend

It could have been a scene from the 1997 Columbia Pictures Corporation film Air Force One with aerospace engineer named Tedd J. Petruna playing the...
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Weather bomb ready to explode over Northeast

The clash of two storm fronts moving across the U.S. containing frigid Arctic air masses are expected to collide on Wednesday, January 12, 2011...
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Atlanta Airport no match for winter weather

Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), a gateway for United Parcel Service (UPS), as well as a major hub for Delta Air Lines...
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AirTran missing engine part found on Indiana farms

Two farmers discovered strange objects among their Rush County, Indiana soybean and corn crops this past Tuesday, October 12. The Indiana State...
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Southwest Airlines and AirTran to merge

Dallas based Southwest Airlines (WN) announced on Monday, September 27 an agreement to merge with AirTran Airways (FL), headquartered in Orlando,...
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Southwest Airlines agrees to buy AirTran; the deal will expand service for both

  • Southwest buys AirTran
  • September 27, 2010
Monday, Southwest Airlines agreed to purchase AirTran Airways for approximately $1.4 billion; the deal will allow AirTran access to the Atlanta,...
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Baggage fees are biggest airline ripoff

On the same day that once mighty Japan Airlines (JAL) filed for bankruptcy protection, and its publicly traded stock plunged to pennies a share,...
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Airline incidents escalate from Gilligan's Island to bomb threats

The number of incidents aloft are soaring alarmingly. They range from the seemingly trivial, bizarre and amusing, to those that are much more...
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