The latest official five-year plan explicitly promotes the development of non-airline aviation and calls for reforms to improve the efficiency and allocation of air space.
But Colgan said on Monday that the law did not cover the three tests Captain Renslow had failed before he was hired, because they were in general aviation, meaning non-airline flying.
In the real, non-airline world, where markets function, there would be some recognition that United couldn't just give those crew members something that it had already sold to someone else, namely, a seat on the plane.
With flight cutbacks decreasing the income airports receive from landing fees, non-airline revenue has become more critical to airports, which have also been lobbying the government to raise the passenger tax that helps pay for airport facilities.
The SARS health-scare and rising fuel costs strengthened ANA's resolve, and it shed some non-airline ventures.By contrast, JAL, a deeply splintered company with poor internal communications, was unable to cut costs so quickly.
This bounty came after most of the industry (minus Southwest) tacitly agreed to create a new industry standard of two hundred dollars per change, plus, in some cases, an additional fifty-dollar service fee for tickets booked on non-airline Web sites.
United Airlines offers price lock-in options, while at least three other non-airline companies [OptionIt, BitBend and SteadyFare] are starting options services for airfares".If you're wondering why nobody thought of this before, a quick review of United's Farelock product shows that this isn't quite the magic wand you'd hope for.
The company operates its business through two segments: Airline Business and Non-Airline Business.
The Non-Airline Business segment engages in the catering, ground handling and aircraft ramp handling services.
Then there are the non-airline airport club programs.
The airlines will probably have an outsized number of seats on this new entity's board and they can then do what they have long dreamed of: raise the tax on using the system and limit non-airline traffic (known as general aviation).
