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VK2AAB > FUEL 27.06.08 06:20l 55 Lines 2313 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Airline failures and reductions
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Sent: 080627/0356Z @:VK2AAB.#SYD.NSW.AUS.OC #:4621 [Sydney] $:4621_VK2AAB
From: VK2AAB@VK2AAB.#SYD.NSW.AUS.OC
To : FUEL@WW
I came accross this today. It is starting to look like air travel will be
very restricted in the next few years, so get in and use your frequent flyer
points.
73 Barry VK2AAB
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Here's my latest update on failed or struggling airlines:
December 2007
12-31 - MaxJet ceases operations - 450 employees
March 2008
03-10 - Big Sky Airlines shuts down
03-18 - Delta Airlines - release 3,000 employees and reduce flights by 10%
03-31 - Champion Air shuts down - 55 employees
Aprl 2008
04-01 - Aloha Airlines ceases operations - 1900 employees
04-03 - ATA Airlines gone - 2200 employees
04-05 - SkyBus closes shop - 450 employees
04-08 - Oasis Airlines - 700 employees
04-11 - Frontier Airlines - 6,000 employees - files for Chapter 11
04-27 - Eos Airlines - files for Chapter 11
04-30 - Nationwide Airlines - shuts down
May 2008
05-13 - EuroManx - ceases operations
05-14 - Japan Airlines - cuts salaries by 5% for 17,000 employees
05-27 - American Airlines cuts flights by 12%
05-28 - JetBlue to defer 21 Airbus A320s
05-29 - Qantas Airways grounds 5 planes
05-31 - Champion Airlines shuts down - 735 employees
05-31 - AirTran defers order for 18 Boeing 737-700
05-30 - Air Midwest - Shuts down (Subsidiary of Mesa Air Lines)
June 2008
06-03 - SilverJet - ceases operation - 300 employees
06-04 - TED Airlines shuts down (United Division)
06-04 - United to retire 100 planes and cuts 1,100 employees - cuts flights by 14%
06-05 - Continental retires 67 planes an cuts 3,000 employees - cuts flights by 11%
06-06 - Air Lingus cuts flights by 15%
06-06 - Qantas Airlines cuts capacity 5%
06-07 - China Airlines cuts flights by 10%
06-10 - MK Airlines (UK) shuts down
06-11 - Aero Condor (Peru) shuts down
06-12 - US Air to cut 1700 jobs and release 10 aircraft
06-14 - Virgin Blue pulls 4 737â€Ös from service
06-15 - Finnair cuts 500 positions
06-16 - US Airways to release 1700 employees and dumps 12 planes
06-17 - Air Canada eliminates 2000 jobs, cuts flights by 13%
06-17 - Northwest Airlines to reduce flights by 9% and mothballs 47 planes
06-18 - Gemini Air Cargo files for bankruptcy
06-18 - Air Berlin cuts 14 planes and routes
06-20 - Midwest Airlines grounds MD-80 Fleet - 12 planes
06-23 - United Airlines to lay off 950 pilots
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