http://www.mail.com/people/27626-jeffery-smisek.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.29/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/people/27626-jeffery-smisek.html http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2097250-united-restarts-787-flights-grounding.html United Airlines put its 787 back in the air on Monday, with both the airline and Boeing hoping to put the plane's four-month grounding behind them. The flight from Houston to Chicago was just the kind of 787 flight that airlines are hoping for: uneventful. Smoldering batteries on two 787s owned by other airlines prompted authorities to ground the planes i... Mon, 20 May 2013 20:43:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2097250-united-restarts-787-flights-grounding.html 2013-05-20T20:43:54Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2072398-delta-will-pay-dividend-buy-shares.html MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Delta Air Lines will start paying a quarterly dividend and buy back some of its shares — investor-friendly moves common in other industries but rare for airlines. For years, the industry repelled long-term investors with high debt, losses, labor strife, bankruptcies, and roller-coaster stock prices. Now, airline bosses are eager to show... Wed, 08 May 2013 20:41:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2072398-delta-will-pay-dividend-buy-shares.html 2013-05-08T20:41:38Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2043826-1q-loss-united-sees-operations-improving.html United Airlines says it's on the way to fixing the reliability problems that have driven away travelers. Now it needs to reliably make money. The airline's parent company reported a $417 million first-quarter loss on Thursday. CEO Jeff Smisek was disappointed with the financial result, but said the airline is making strides in customer service that will e... Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:32:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2043826-1q-loss-united-sees-operations-improving.html 2013-04-25T20:32:20Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2023760-american-cancels-us-flights-hours.html DALLAS (AP) — A computer system used to run many daily operations at American Airlines failed Tuesday, forcing the nation's third-largest carrier to ground all flights across the United States for several hours and stranding thousands of frustrated passengers at airports and on planes. Flights already in the air were allowed to continue to their destinati... Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:02:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2023760-american-cancels-us-flights-hours.html 2013-04-17T02:02:20Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1929298-middle-east-global-travel-crossroads.html DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — It's 1 a.m. and the sprawling airport in this desert city is bustling. Enough languages fill the air to make a United Nations translator's head spin. Thousands of fliers arrive every hour from China, Australia, India and nearly everywhere else on the planet. Few venture outside the terminal, which spans the length of 24 ... Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:08:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1929298-middle-east-global-travel-crossroads.html 2013-03-04T19:08:36Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1894308-persistent-parker-nears-top-job-american.html Doug Parker has no problem donning rapper Psy's light blue tuxedo for Halloween and performing his own version of Gangnam Style before hundreds of employees. The CEO of US Airways even let a video of his dance get posted to YouTube. He's outspoken, confident, and persistent, and he is very close to being put in charge of the world's largest airline. After... Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:07:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1894308-persistent-parker-nears-top-job-american.html 2013-02-15T14:07:22Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1844166-ntsb-boeing-787-battery-short-circuiting.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Boeing 787 Dreamliner battery that caught fire earlier this month in Boston shows evidence of short-circuiting and a chemical reaction known as "thermal runaway," in which an increase in temperature causes progressively hotter temperatures, federal accident investigators said Thursday. It's not clear to investigators which came first... Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:30:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1844166-ntsb-boeing-787-battery-short-circuiting.html 2013-01-24T22:30:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1842946-united-continental-posts-4q-loss-traffic-falls.html Travelers avoided United Airlines last year, leaving it with a fourth-quarter loss as it continues to pay for its stumbles in absorbing Continental. United Continental Holdings Inc. on Thursday reported a $620 million loss for the quarter as passenger traffic dropped 3.2 percent. The loss was driven by $408 million in spending on the integration for thing... Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1842946-united-continental-posts-4q-loss-traffic-falls.html 2013-01-24T20:17:00Z