{"id":66,"date":"2014-07-27T16:15:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T16:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baggage-allowance.info\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2014-07-27T16:15:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T16:15:42","slug":"2nd-quarter-results-us-airlines-show-promise-united-continental-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baggage-allowance.info\/blog\/2nd-quarter-results-us-airlines-show-promise-united-continental-high\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd Quarter Results of US Airlines Show Promise, United Continental on a High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is time for celebrations in United Continental at least for this time when it is reporting that it earned $2.34 per share. It reported revenue of $10.33bn in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> quarter of this year and with a net income of $919 million, which is significant jump of more than 50% as compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>By paying off its debts in the last few years and managing its capital expenditures quite dexterously, the company has been able to make a turnaround due to improved cash flows. It is now planning to buyback $1bn worth of shares from the public. This shows the renewed confidence of carrier in putting its finances in order.<\/p>\n<p>Delta Airlines has also reported a 9% increase in revenues as compared with the last year, to $10.6bn and the net income at $889 million. The American Airlines group has also shown profits. The revenues have jumped to $11.4bn, up by 10.2 % as compared with the last year with an income of $864 million. Southwest airline has reported a profit of 465 million on revenue earnings of $5bn.<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-66\" data-postid=\"66\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-66 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\n\t<\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is time for celebrations in United Continental at least for this time when it is reporting that it earned $2.34 per share. It reported revenue of $10.33bn in the 2nd quarter of this year and with a net income of $919 million, which is significant jump of more than 50% as compared with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,31,29,28],"tags":[33,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baggage-allowance.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/baggage-allowance.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/baggage-allowance.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baggage-allowance.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baggage-allowance.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/baggage-allowance.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"http:\/\/baggage-allowance.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baggage-allowance.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baggage-allowance.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baggage-allowance.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}