Pedro Fábregas, president of Dallas, TX-based Envoy, was chosen for the third year in a row as one of Dallas-Fort Worth’s top leaders in “D CEO” Magazine’s 2018 Dallas 500 special edition, honoring the most powerful business leaders in the area.
Regional air carrier American Eagle ended its 27-year run out of the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan over the weekend, flying away from the Caribbean and Puerto Rico for the last time.
American Airlines’ cycle as the leading carrier at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport could officially come to an end on June 1, if the U.S. Bankruptcy Court approves its petition to turn over the $350 million, 370,000 square-foot terminal facility it built in 1986 to the Puerto Rico Port Authority, News is my Business learned.
Pedro Fábregas, a long-time veteran of the airline industry has been promoted to senior vice president of customer service for American Eagle, a position from which he will be responsible for all airport and flight attendant operations for the more than 1,500 daily flights operated by American Eagle and its affiliate Executive Airlines.
Two-dozen companies came together last week to participate in American Eagle’s traditional “Jala Jala” (Pull Pull) charity fundraiser, which this year collected $48,000 to be donated to the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
AMR Corporation took the next step Thursday in the process of spinning off its regional carrier American Eagle by filing the required paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
American Eagle announced Tuesday plans to reinstate service to La Romana-Casa de Campo International Airport from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport twice a week (Friday and Sunday) starting Nov. 18. The new service that was discontinued earlier this year will be operated with 64-seat ATR-72 aircraft.
For the second time in the past five years, AMR Corp., parent company of American Airlines Inc., has announced plans to divest its wholly owned regional carrier American Eagle. The strategy calls for spinning off the operation as an independent business.
Executive Airlines, which serves the Caribbean out of San Juan as American Eagle, is facing a $550,000 fine from the Federal Aviation Administration for failing to complete appropriate inspections on several aircraft.
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