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Era of airline merger mania comes to a close with last US Airways flight -- An era of airline consolidation concludes Friday night when US Airways Flight 1939 takes off from San Francisco. The red-eye flight to Philadelphia is the last-ever departure for the airline. Come Saturday morning, US Airways reservations system will go dark as merger partner American presses ahead with its integration of the two airlines. For consumers, it's the last domino to fall in a series of mergers that has squeezed nine of the USA's biggest airlines into just four since 2005. Ben Mutzabaugh/USA Today
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Delta Air Lines says its Trainer refinery posted a $106M profit in 3Q -- Delta Air Lines said Wednesday that its refinery in Trainer, Delaware County, posted a $106 million profit in the third quarter, compared with $19 million a year ago. "Our total fuel expense declined by over $1 billion in the quarter as lower market fuel prices more than offset higher consumption," chief financial officer Paul Jacobson said in a conference call on the company's earnings. Linda Loyd/Philadelphia Inquirer
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Frontier Airlines President says travelers are too entitled -- Are U.S. airline passengers too entitled? Do they want more perks than they're willing to pay for? Do they whine too much? Yes, Frontier President Barry Biffle told me last month. "In the United States, relative to the average per capita GDP, this is one of the cheapest places on the planet to travel," he said. "Americans fly at several multiples of the average flier. There's not a country like it. And you get entitled. People feel entitled." Frontier sells some of the cheapest fares in the world, but in exchange, there are drawbacks for consumers. BrianSumers.com
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Want a job at LAX? Check out new airport website -- Los Angeles International Airport's new job-search Internet portal is now up and running with about 150 openings, officials announced Thursday. The Jobs@LAX website includes jobs from about 100 companies that include airlines, companies that perform contract services for airlines and retail or restaurant vendors. The positions include dishwashers, bartenders, sales people, mechanics and others. Airport officials said their staff works with the contractors to identify positions to post on the website, one of the features included in the upgrade of LAX's job search site, officials said. MyNewsLA.com LAWA Press Release Nick Green/Torrance Daily Breeze
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San Jose's new flight to Frankfurt will help pay off its airport debt -- Adding a third new international destination in the past year to San Jose International Airport's menu is a victory for travelers -- but it's an even bigger win for an airport that trails its two Bay Area competitors in passenger traffic and faces a mountain of debt from a $1.3 billion renovation five years ago. Ramona Giwargis/San Jose Mercury News
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Southwest officially opens new international terminal at Hobby Airport -- Dallas-based Southwest Airlines Co. has officially opened its international terminal at Hobby Airport. The five-gate terminal, which opened Oct. 15, has been under construction since September 2013. It puts Houston in a rare class in the United States: Houston is now one of only three municipalities with two international airports in its boundaries. The inaugural flight for the new international terminal will be to Cancun, Mexico. Joe Martin/Houston Business Journal
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Virgin America Airlines expanding with Las Vegas-Dallas flights -- Bay area-based Virgin America Airlines, a carrier that has landed atop many consumer favorites lists, is expanding in Las Vegas with two new daily round trips to and from Dallas' Love Field. Flights begin Dec. 1 and tickets went on sale Thursday. Dallas has been one of Las Vegas' top-growing markets over the past year, thanks primarily of the repeal of the Wright Amendment a year ago. Richard N. Velotta/Las Vegas Review-Journal
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Airport connecting traffic dries up in Memphis -- Exactly 162 passengers made flight connections in September at Memphis International Airport, where more than 3 million a year once changed planes at the old Northwest Airlines passenger hub. That statistic underscores an ongoing transformation from connecting hub to an airport where virtually everyone is flying to or from Memphis, officials said Thursday. Connecting passengers constituted less than one tenth of one percent of 157,735 passengers boarding planes at Memphis in September, airport data shows. Wayne Risher/Commercial Appeal
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Berlin's new airport keeps 2017 target despite delays -- The chief executive of Berlin's much-delayed international airport still hopes for it to be completed in the second half of 2017, even though the deadline is getting increasingly tight. The 5.3 billion euro-airport ($6 billion), meant to replace the capital's three Cold War-era hubs, has been under construction since 2006 and was originally planned to open in 2011. Victoria Bryan/Reuters
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Recent FAA reauthorization was without debate or reform -- Two of Congress's most important duties are oversight of federal programs and working in a way that provides a maximum of transparency. The legislative branch badly failed at both of these duties last month when it sent a bill reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration for six months to President Obama for his signature. Don't be surprised if this is the first you are hearing about it; that is just what some in Congress wanted. Neil Siefring/The Hill
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Cockpits to get 'enhanced vision' -- Federal aviation experts are meeting with aerospace industry officials in Virginia Thursday to discuss what promises to be the next big advance in airline safety and on-time performance. The gathering at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Langley research center will showcase "enhanced vision systems," enabling pilots to manually complete landings in low-visibility conditions that aren't allowed under today's rules. Andy Pasztor/Wall Street Journal
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Bombardier said to hold talks with JetBlue on CSeries order -- Bombardier Inc., struggling to find established airlines as buyers for its new CSeries airliner, is in talks about a possible order with JetBlue Airways Corp., two people familiar with the matter said. The discussions are continuing, and no decision has been reached, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private. They gave no details on the size of any potential sale to JetBlue, whose fleet now consists of Airbus Group SE and Embraer SA aircraft. Frederic Tomesco & Mary Schlangenstein/Bloomberg Business
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Europe mulls aircraft-parts competition investigation amid airline complaints -- Airlines, long critical of the allegedly high prices suppliers charge them, could be winning the ear of regulators, with the authorities in Europe examining whether to investigate possible anticompetitive practices in the market for aircraft parts and services. The International Air Transport Association, which represents more than 200 airlines, this year has said it is looking at the problem of a lack of competition in the market for jetliners, the engines that power them, and the services to repair them. Robert Wall/Wall Street Journal
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Bel-Air water hogs spur move to impose stiff penalties on L.A. guzzlers -- Water hogs, beware. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power agreed Wednesday to study ways to curb excessive water use after the City Council called for a crackdown that could include "severe financial penalties" and "as a last resort, shutting off water." The council approved a motion by Councilman Paul Koretz asking LADWP to report back within 30 days on measures that can be taken to stop water abuse. Hailey Branson-Potts/Los Angeles Times
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Port of L.A. terminal met pollution goal despite unfulfilled remedy steps -- The Port of Los Angeles met air-pollution reduction targets at one of its busiest terminals despite failing to take a number of steps it had agreed to impose to control emissions, the port's top official says. Emissions are at or below levels contemplated when the port approved the expansion of the China Shipping terminal in 2008, Port of L.A. Executive Director Gene Seroka said in an interview Wednesday. Tony Barboza/Los Angeles Times
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