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Airbus CEO on coming to America, and what it takes to compete with Boeing
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Apr 10, 2013
CEO of Airbus Fabrice Bregier joins Marketplace Morning Report host Jeremy Hobson to discuss their new assembly plant in Alabama and what's ahead for the company.
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Do merging airlines actually mean better customer service?
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Apr 8, 2013
A new report says airlines scored their second best performance rankings in 23 years. Find out how that happened when airline mergers were supposed to make customer service worse.
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Want to be a flight attendant? Get in line.
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Mar 18, 2013
These days, you have a better chance of getting into Harvard than you do of becoming a flight attendant.
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Massive snow storm snarls U.S. airlines, passengers
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Feb 8, 2013
As snowstorm 'Nemo' approaches the East Coast, airlines are preemptively cancelling thousands of flights. That means headaches for many travelers, but how does being grounded affect those work in the airline industry?
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FAA makes an 'unprecedented' announcement about Boeing
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Jan 11, 2013
FAA won't ground the Boeing 787 Dreamliner but they will review the plane's construction.
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Southwest Airlines raises fees
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Dec 17, 2012
The one-time discount airline is rethinking its 'bags fly free' policy because of rising costs. So far, only the third bag will cost you.
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How airlines weather the cost of catastrophe
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Nov 7, 2012
Passengers can buy flight insurance to cover canceled trips. But when planes can't fly, airlines have no such protection.
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List of long-haul flights grows short
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Oct 25, 2012
Airlines are increasingly canceling flights of 15 hours or more because of softened demand.
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More concerns for Boeing after Dreamliner engine malfunction
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Jul 30, 2012
Near Boeing's Charleston, S.C., assembly plant on Saturday, something got sucked into a 787 Dreamliner's engine and sparked a grass fire on the runway. It's just another problem that's faced the Dreamliner line of planes recently.
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Airlines report profits as airfares remain high
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Jul 27, 2012
If you are one of the brave souls traveling this summer you've surely noticed that airfares are soaring. And most of the major airlines are reporting healthy profits.
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