Mobissimo Blog - Airline Industry

easyjet Profits Drop by 50% Low Cost Carriers Also Feeling the Economic Downturn

blog@mobissimo.com (Mobissimo) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:26:01 -0800

It's always a tough time for airlines, low cost airlines even more so. Fuel costs, passenger occupancy, labor costs, it all adds up. However, some are wildly successful, others are having some issues. easyjet, one of the pioneers has had some problems.

Budget airline Easyjet has reported a big fall in full-year profits to the end of September, after the rising price of oil pushed up fuel costs.

Pre-tax profits were £54.7m ($92.2m), half of the £110.2m the airline made a year earlier.

This came despite a 13% rise in sales from £2.36bn a year ago to £2.67bn.

Easyjet said the results were "extremely resilient", adding it was one of the "very few" European airlines to make a profit in the past 12 months.

Flying Soon? Perhaps Your Cabin Air is Contaminated - H1N1 Hysteria Hits the Airlines

blog@mobissimo.com (Mobissimo) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:40:00 -0800

A legitimate concern, after all, recycled air for hours on end can be unhealthy, watch this video from CNN to increase your worry level.

United Airlines Loses Guitar Singer's Bags, Again - Not the Best Person to Upset

blog@mobissimo.com (Mobissimo) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:27:51 -0800

United Airlines broke a passenger's guitar a while back and he took matters into his own hands, singing about it YouTube, causing a PR fiasco for United. He was en route to talk about customer service when United lost his luggage.

After famously breaking his guitar, United Airlines has managed to cause further trouble for David Carroll by losing his luggage just as the Canadian singer-songwriter was en route to deliver a speech about customer service.

RightNow Technologies, a company that creates customer service software, had hired Carroll to deliver a keynote speech this week at its conference in Colorado Springs, about 100 kilometres southeast of Denver.