Virgin Atlantic has announced that American Airlines executive Craig Kreeger will be its next chief executive.
Carty , chief executive of American Airlines parent AMR (nyse: AMR - news - people).
Willie Walsh, chief executive of International Airlines Group, the owner of British Airways, called on Chancellor George Osborne to set up an independent review of APD.
He's bringing a friend with him, Larry Kellner , chief executive of Continental Airlines (nyse: CAL - news - people ), who knows a thing or two about turning around a struggling company.
The foreign-ownership rules even preclude foreigners from holding the top executive positions in American airlines in which foreign capital owns as much as a 49% stake.
Four years ago, as Ford was facing challenges, its board went outside the auto industry and tapped Alan Mullaly, chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airlines, to serve as its CEO.
Fast-growing JetSuite the California-based private jet company headed by JetBlue Airlines founding executive Alex Wilcox continues to revolutionize charter flight and airline travel with a new offering: SuiteShare, which allows passengers to share flights with others to save even more on airfare.
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's (nyse: AMR - news - people ) American Airlines said its Executive Vice President for operations, Gerard Arpey, has been chosen president and chief operating officer of the world's No. 1 carrier.
Investment banker made headlines in 1999 when he briefly stepped in as chief executive of then nearly bankrupt Philippine Airlines, replacing Lucio Tan.
"We have a little bit of stock, but not much, " Jim Albaugh, chief executive of Boeing's commercial airlines unit, said in an interview on CNBC.
Carty, chairman and chief executive officer of AMR and American Airlines.
Federal officials are making air travel "the poster child for sequestration, ensuring that the 2 million people and 50, 000 tons of cargo that fly every day are impacted by projected delays caused by arbitrary cuts, " said Airlines for America Chief Executive Nick Calio, who was a legislative-affairs assistant to former President George W. Bush.
"The FAA has made some good steps, " said Mark Moran, executive vice president of operations at Continental Airlines Inc.
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"We hold ourselves to a very rigorous standard of punctuality, " says Mark Dunkerley, Hawaiian Airlines' president and chief executive, adding that the airline considers a flight "late" if it arrives even one minute behind schedule.
The carrier will be run under the American Airlines brand, but the chief executive will be the current US Airways boss, Doug Parker.
In September, a Gol Airlines Boeing 737 collided with an executive jet over the Amazon rainforest, causing the passenger jet to crash, killing 154 people.
Gorman served as President of Krispy Kreme Doughnut's North American division, as well as Executive Vice President of Flight and Technical Operations at Northwest Airlines.
"We'll certainly put the information into our blog and produce the list of blacklisted airlines, thus allowing travelers to make informed decisions about airlines, " said David Soskin , chief executive of Cheapflights, an independent company providing flight price comparison.
Gorman served as President of Krispy Kreme (nyse: KKD - news - people ) Doughnut's North American division, as well as Executive Vice President of Flight and Technical Operations at Northwest Airlines (nyse: NWA - news - people ).
The bank's internal communications chief, Ray O'Rourke , has a background in crisis PR from his days as an executive at Burson-Marsteller, where he represented Pan Am Airlines in the Lockerbie air disaster and Perrier in its more recent benzene fiasco.
Linux software distributor Red Hat named former Delta Airlines Chief Operating Officer James Whitehurst as its new chief executive on Thursday.
Commercial airlines and car-rental firms are suffering, but executive-jet firms are booming.
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Michael Small, the chief executive of Aircell, which provides wi-fi to 10 large North American airlines, says his company is considering developing a simulated text messaging application that would work in-flight.
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Valiantly presiding over the Chicago-based parent of United Airlines is Glenn Tilton, a 54-year-old former oil executive who took the chief executive job in September.
"We see tremendous potential for the Qantas Group in Asia and we are looking forward to working more closely with China Eastern Airlines to deliver on it, " Alan Joyce, Qantas' chief executive officer said.
He's got plenty of them these days as chief executive of the Air Transport Association, the trade group representing the biggest U.S. airlines.
The tablets helped the carrier cut 7 percent off the weight of planes obtained from parent Singapore Airlines Ltd. (SIA) even after a 40 percent increase in seating, Chief Executive Officer Campbell Wilson said.
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To a degree that you will find surprising if you don't know the company or its chief executive, George Shaheen, Andersen defines the technology used by thousands of businesses, from oil producers to airlines to telephone companies.
"It is good news that debit card surcharges will be displayed in the headline price of flights - as long as the airlines do not use this as an excuse to push up their prices, " said Which? chief executive Peter Vicary-Smith.
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