{"id":98881367,"date":"2010-10-24T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/airtran-airways-earns-36-million-in-third-quarter\/"},"modified":"2020-05-15T04:30:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T08:30:14","slug":"airtran-airways-earns-36-million-in-third-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/airtran-airways-earns-36-million-in-third-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"AirTran Airways Earns $36 Million in Third Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"AirTran Airways earns $36 million in third quarter of 2010\" src=\"\/going-places\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2010\/10\/airtran_coa.jpg\" alt=\"AirTran Airways earns $36 million in third quarter of 2010\" width=\"250\" height=\"140\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AirTran Airways earned a whopping $36.3 million in their third quarter according to a press release by the Orlando based airline Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Last year during the same time period AirTran made $10.4 million.\u00a0 Much of the profit came due to AirTran&#8217;s wise decision to lock in a low fuel price thanks to fuel hedging.<\/p>\n<p>Operating revenues were $668<br \/>\nmillion, up 11.8 percent, while operating expenses were $611.3 million, up 9.1 percent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/airlines\/airtran-airways-fl\">AirTran Airways<\/a> just announced last month that it would be acquired by Dallas-based Southwest Airlines. The deal is expected to be complete by the first quarter of 2011, pending approval. Until that time AirTran will continue to operate separately from Southwest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; AirTran Airways earned a whopping $36.3 million in their third quarter according to a press release by the Orlando based airline Friday. Last year during the same time period AirTran made $10.4 million.\u00a0 Much of the profit came due to AirTran&#8217;s wise decision to lock in a low fuel price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98905785,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881367\/revisions\/98905785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}