Airline Industry

In order to strengthen their presence in Wales and create more than 200 aviation jobs in the Swansea area, including those in airline reservations and customer relations, Virgin Atlantic has just opened its new customer service center. Ieuan Wyn Jones, the Deputy First Minister, said, “Virgin Atlantic is one of the best known brands in [...]

With the terrible falling share prices in 2009, things are finally looking up for United Airlines and their parent company UAL Corp. Recent passenger unit revenue rose by 9.5 percent and this is good for the entire industry. At one point United Airlines, the largest airline in the country dropped to below the industry standard. [...]

Things are picking up for many United States airlines as the low fuel costs helped them to profit this last quarter. Continental Airlines and Southwest Airlines were two of the major improvers in share prices with Southwest gaining by 2.8 percent in the afternoon trading on Thursday. The Chairman of Continental, Jeff Smisek, noted that [...]

The airline and airport industry offers tons of exciting and interesting jobs, but none are more stressful and require more concentration than that of air traffic controller jobs. The air traffic controller is the leader of the ground crew in charge of making sure that all planes, helicopters and more land and take off in [...]