Jamie Baker

Jamie Baker News

  • Latam Airlines Gains in Chile After JPMorgan Removes Sell

    Latam Airlines SA, Latin America’s worst-performing carrier this year, rose to a four-week high as JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised its recommendation on the stock from the equivalent of sell.

  • Sequestration Seen as Airline Drag as U.S. Cuts Travel

    U.S. government spending on air travel probably fell as much as 30 percent in the past month amid congressionally mandated budget cuts that threaten to keep weighing on the industry, a JPMorgan Chase & Co. analyst said.

  • Archer & Greiner, McDermott, Davis Polk: Business of Law

    New Jersey-based law firm Archer & Greiner PC dismissed 14 attorneys, including seven nonequity partners across a mix of practices, firm President Christopher Gibson said.

  • DLA Piper, Jones Day, Baker Botts: Business of Law

    DLA Piper, the world’s second- largest law firm by revenue, and Jones Day, the top legal adviser on mergers by deal count, said they bid for licenses in Singapore as the Asian city further opens its legal market.

  • Colorado Resorts Face More Drought as Snow Readings Lure Skiers

    Jagged peaks ringing Colorado’s Copper Mountain turned indigo in the rising sun as Jamie Baker knelt to measure the ski resort’s latest snowfall. The total came to what it’s been too often this season: zero.

  • JetBlue Quarterly Profit Falls as Sandy Grounds Flights

    JetBlue Airways Corp. fell the most in two months after fourth-quarter profit tumbled 96 percent, more than analysts projected, as superstorm Sandy forced flight cancellations and reduced travel demand.

  • How Airbus Courted American Airlines

    AMR Corp. Chief Executive Officer Gerard Arpey kept a secret in April as analysts questioned why his turnaround strategies haven’t produced an annual profit at the parent of American Airlines since 2007.

  • AMR Pilots Back Contract as Boost Seen in Merger Process

    American Airlines pilots approved their first new contract since 2003, securing the labor savings sought by parent AMR Corp. and giving a possible boost to US Airways Group Inc.’s push for a merger.

  • US Airways Leads Airlines to Biggest Gain Since October

    US Airways Group Inc. and United Continental Holdings Inc. surged as jet-fuel prices remained near a five-month low and a JPMorgan Chase & Co. analyst boosted his earnings estimates for carriers.

  • Jet-Lease Billionaire Udvar-Hazy Takes On AIG Hand That Fed Him

    Airplane-leasing billionaire Steven Udvar-Hazy hates to wait. When the chairman and chief executive officer of Air Lease Corp. is ready to take off in his Gulfstream IV jet from Los Angeles’s Van Nuys Airport one August morning, he drives straight up to the plane in his black Volks- wagen Jetta, bounds up the stairway, throws off his suit jacket and hops into the pilot seat.

Advertisement
Sponsored Links
Advertisement
Curation software by Lingospot