Competition has spurred innovations such as hub-and-spoke routing systems and new low-cost carriers such as Southwest Airlines and JetBlue in America and easyJet and Ryanair in Europe.
While carriers have to pay higher subsidies for smartphones such as the iPhone, such devices allow carriers to charge customers for data plans.
The hope is that taking to the air with launch customers such as Singapore Airlines will lead to further orders from other carriers, such as Cathay Pacific and British Airways, which fly busy long-haul routes.
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He says, however, to watch for such carriers as Ryanair to wait for a cyclical downturn in the airliner market to purchase wide bodies on the cheap and open up trans-Atlantic routes--something he says might happen in about five years.
BlackJet books business class planes from carriers such as JetSelect and sells the seats individually.
Android makes it difficult for phone carriers such as Verizon to offer their own services.
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Flying, especially on the short breaks pioneered by low-cost carriers such as easyJet, is hugely popular.
In general, carriers such as American and US Airways allocate 30 minutes to board a narrowbody aircraft.
Safeco and Allstate are both up more than 10% in the past year, with smaller carriers such as W.R.
It does not operate out of Stansted, which is used mainly by low-cost carriers such as easyJet and Ryanair.
Around the world, carriers such as O2 in the UK or, most recently, SingTel in Singapore have faced similar struggles.
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Big cellular carriers such as Vodafone, SingTel, Australia's Telstra and several companies in Japan already embed FAST's contextual search technology in their networks.
Full-service carriers such as BA and Iberia are also facing growing competition on short-haul European routes from no-frills airlines like Ryanair and Easyjet.
The orders signify the airline's long-term confidence in the Asian-Pacific premium segment despite an onslaught of budget carriers such as Malaysia's AirAsia Bhd.
Wireless carriers such as T-Mobile, Sprint PCS and Verizon Wireless are offering wireless data services that connect computers, phones and PDAs to the wireless Internet.
Those looking to save more than a few pennies can make the jump to voice over Internet Protocol technology, offered by carriers such as Skype and Vonage.
There is less of a dispute with carriers such as Verizon Wireless that use an alternate wireless technology called CDMA because their phones don't use SIM cards.
Carriers such as United would be happy with more flights and Japanese destinations, linked to permission to sign a code-sharing (joint marketing) deal with a leading Japanese carrier.
Mr Koehler forecasts that carriers such as easyJet and its arch-rival, Ryanair, will increase their share of the European short-haul and medium-haul market from 11% today to 28% in 2010.
Another reason is the cost of purchasing the device and plan, which seems likely to be a mismatch with potential subscriber defections from other carriers such as Sprint and T-Mobile.
Low 3G penetration of about 15% in China is giving smaller wireless carriers such as China Telecom ample opportunity to compete on an even ground with the otherwise dominant China Mobile.
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An ultra-low-fare model gives carriers such as Allegiant and Spirit more flexibility in unbundling the costs of air travel, Cordle said, but other airlines will be watching the carry-on fee closely.
Virgin and other carriers such as Singapore Airlines, Lufthansa and Emirates operate long-haul services, frequently using airports, such as London's Heathrow, where there are limited runway slots for take-off and landing.
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This had pressured carriers such as British Airways, Lufthansa, Air France and others to start sharing passengers' data to U.S. despite risking being sued by passengers for breach of EU laws.
Low 3G penetration of around 18% in China is giving smaller wireless carriers such as China Unicom ample opportunity to compete on an even ground with the otherwise dominant China Mobile.
Acting in the same roles at Ascend, they supplied Internet access-devices to data carriers such as PSINet and Uunet, now part of MCI Worldcom, before most people had heard of the Web.
Mr Dixon said on Sunday that Singapore Airlines would make a good partner, but added that so would other carriers such as British Airways, Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific and Air New Zealand.
They are understood to be drawing up creative plans ranging from cheap and basic warehouses for low-cost carriers such as easyJet to luxurious lounges aimed at winning the hearts of frequent-flying businessmen.
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Finally, having started with a clean sheet, Emirates has a flat management structure and the kind of flexible, highly productive workforce that carriers such as strike-torn BA and high-cost Lufthansa can only dream of.
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