Even airlines with healthy balance sheets, such as American and Southwest, are having to pay 10-11% on secured debt.
L.A. brass, often ditching combat boots for tasseled loafers, were common sights at properties that included hotels, telecommunications services, pharmaceutical concerns and even airlines.
Even airlines are getting in on the act, with Franco-Dutch carrier Air France-KLM currently in talks with Veolia Environnement's transport subsidiary over a possible joint venture in rail.
Even airlines are getting in on the act, with Franco-Dutch carrier Air France-KLM (other-otc: AFLYY - news - people ) currently in talks with Veolia Environnement (nyse: VE - news - people )'s transport subsidiary over a possible joint venture in rail.
This makes it easier to scale check-in capacity to meet demand, and enables even small airlines to offer self-service check-in.
It's why you see Lufthansa pulling out of first in some markets, and even Emirates Airlines is thinking of going all-business on the A380.
African airline start-ups, local carriers and even international airlines are out to prove that jet travel can extend beyond deep-pocketed passengers to West Africa's flourishing middle-class and business travelers.
This disincentive remains true even though airlines are not remotely solving for danger now with their ineffective cabin announcements -- it's more like muffling the problem than solving it.
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Even if the airlines take commissions away, he says, there are other ways to make money.
If cash continues to evaporate at its present rate, even the strongest airlines will need to raise money.
Airlines even make seats available at their lowest award level a week or two before departure if seats aren't selling well.
But now, even as regional airlines continue to phase out their older turboprops, a new generation of planes with propellers is taking off.
Even as Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, which was headed from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, seems to have vanished into thin air, two people listed on the flight manifest remain safe.
The advantage for passengers if this policy catches on: the ability to shop around for the best price for each leg of a trip -- even on different airlines.
Even automobile companies and airlines seem to have learned this lesson.
Maybe even worse, some airlines waited to cancel fights that they must have known they were going to cancel anyway until it was too late for passengers to make alternative arrangements.
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But critics worry that the measure will result in privacy violations and even discrimination, allowing airlines to charge certain kinds of passengers, such as business travellers, more than other passengers, potentially without their knowledge.
Eventually, that might even lead to European airlines being allowed to fly on domestic routes within the United States in return for US carriers being allowed to operate on internal EU routes.
As I said, when things go bad, you need someone in your corner to advocate for you, someone with both knowledge and access to the reservation systems, and you certainly cannot count on the airlines, even if you are a loyal longtime regular customer.
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Cheap airlines enable some even to split their time between Britain and their home country.
This, in turn, would put even more pressure on those airlines which have managed to keep their heads above a sea of red ink.
This is the case, even though the two major airlines overlap on only 12 non-stop routes and have complementary hubs, according to media reports.
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Fortunately, even as cash-strapped airlines raise fees and cut services, there's a countervailing trend that has gone largely unnoticed by disgruntled travelers: economy class is getting better.
The White House fought for this provision after appeals from the industry that its insurance premiums would be so high as to send many airlines into bankruptcy even with direct federal aid.
Some Web sites that detail the legroom offered by individual airlines don't even bother to list Eos.
Airlines would face an even higher cost on a per unit basis.
The result could be that only the most efficient airlines will survive and even the winners may not take delivery of all the aircraft they have ordered.
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The trip showcased the passion still ignited by airlines and travel, even when service cuts, delays and layers of fees make travel anything but romantic these days.
Tony Tyler, IATA's director general and CEO, argues that the industry is "balancing on a knife edge" with even the sturdiest and more established airlines feeling the pressure.
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For cyclical properties like airlines, industrials and even hotels, fixed-charge coverage of just one (suggesting that a company's earnings are just enough to satisfy debt, lease and principal repayment over the next year) can evaporate overnight.
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