After enjoying a bump in passenger counts last year, Indianapolis-based Republic Airways posted a decline in January compared with the same period a year ago. The regional carrier said yesterday that it transported 1.3 million passengers last month, down 2.4 percent from the previous January. In 2008, Republic flew 18.9 million passengers, up 16 percent […]
Students, commerce and emerging media have moved to the forefront of Ball State’s mission under President Jo Ann Gora, attracting corporate dollars to the university.
Airlines may be struggling nationally, but Indianapolis-based Republic Airways flew more passengers last year than in 2007.The regional carrier said Jan. 2 that it transported 18.9 million passengers in 2008, up 16 percent from the prior year.The airline holding company owns Chautauqua Airlines, Republic Airlines and Shuttle America – airlines that offer about 1,250 flights […]
Any hopes that hometown airline ATA would make a comeback and eventually resume scheduled service from Indianapolis were dashed
April 2, when it filed for bankruptcy and ceased operations.
A suburban Cincinnati construction company known for airport and interstate projects alleges the Indianapolis Airport Authority
has failed to pay on a $14.7 million contract to build aircraft parking spaces.
Conexus Indiana, an industry-driven advanced manufacturing and logistics initiative, is spearheading the development of a
strategic logistics plan.
Hampered much of the year by high fuel prices, trucking companies still may be in for a long haul before they’re back on the
road to recovery.
Southwest is striking a deal to acquire ATA’s valuable landing slots at LaGuardia
and most of the dying airlines’ remaining assets for $7.5 million.
Search engine ChaCha lays off employees, cuts perks, begins limiting its free answers to clients
Shares in Republic Airways Holdings Inc. shot up nearly 9 percent this morning, to $14.54 each, after the Indianapolis-based regional carrier reported profit that beat analysts’ expectations. Republic said late yesterday that it earned $17 million in the third quarter, down 16 percent from a year earlier on higher expenses. Still, the 50-cents-per-share rise outpaced […]
Republic Airways Holdings Inc. earned $17 million in the third quarter, down 16 percent from a year earlier on higher expenses, the Indianapolis-based regional carrier reported late yesterday. The 50 cents per share beat the 47 cents expected by analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial. Republic had $7.4 million in additional expenses related to the return […]
The big debt payments on the $1.1 billion midfield terminal at Indianapolis International Airport start coming due in January–just
as a recession hits and the battered airline industry cuts capacity. Despite the likely prospect of fewer passengers than
projected in the next year or two, airport managers say they don’t anticipate problems shouldering the roughly $40 million
a year in debt burden over the next 30 years for the new facility.
Indianapolis-based passenger carrier Republic Airways Holdings Inc. said today it has agreed to loan US Airways Group Inc. as much as $35 million. Republic offered an initial, $10 million loan, on Oct. 20, and has made available an additional $25 million in the first quarter of 2009. Republic flies smaller jets for US Airways, headquartered […]
A legal malpractice insurance carrier has agreed to pay $16.5 million to Indiana ‘s insurance department, settling a federal lawsuit stemming from the multi-million-dollar collapse of a health insurance trust. Alabama-based ProNational Insurance Co. agreed to make the payment to settle a bad-faith and breach-of-contract lawsuit filed by the department four months ago. ProNational was […]
With a driver shortage as bad as the freight industry says, one might think operating a truck-driving school would be a license to print money. But proposed federal rules to toughen training standards and, lately, a fishtailing economy could bring a shakeout among schools. There are even rumblings that a few big carriers that contract with driving schools are poised to eliminate tuition reimbursement as they sweat out the economic downturn. “We’re going to start losing schools,” predicted John Priest,…
There are art lovers who will never, ever be able to embrace the kind of work represented in the very representational “Quest for the West” show at the Eiteljorg (through Oct. 5). Featuring Native Americans crouching at riverside, stalwart cowboys trudging through snow-covered silence, bucolic mountains, steadfast wolves (or coyotes-sorry, I’m from New Jersey), and anguished bronzes, much of the work seems to exist independent of the artists. Yes, they seem to have been there to capture the images, but…
Last week’s column looked ahead to the limitless possibilities of Lucas Oil Stadium. This week’s topic is a last look back at the Hoosier/RCA Dome because, this Wednesday, the Dome will be deflated and it will pass forever from our skyline. But not from our memories. Imagine our city without it. There would be no Indianapolis Colts. There likely would be no forthcoming Super Bowl, no Final Fours and no NCAA headquarters. There likely would have been no Pan American…
Gibson Insurance Group is the latest benefits broker to get more serious about wellness. The South Bend-based firm, which has an office in Indianapolis, has hired a dedicated wellness director to help its clients refine and assess their wellness programs for workers. Nicole Fallowfield, the former vice president of sales for Principal Wellness Co. in Indianapolis, will work out of Gibson’s downtown Indianapolis office but serve Gibson’s clients throughout Indiana. By hiring Fallowfield, Gibson joins a budding trend among brokers…
O N T H E R E C O R D First Merchants Corp. of Muncie announced Sept. 3 that it has agreed to buy Lincoln Bancorp of Plainfield for about $75 million. The acquisition expands First Merchants’ presence in the Indianapolis area from the northern suburbs into other fast-growing suburbs on the west and south sides. Announcement of the deal sparked a 37-percent runup in the value of Lincoln shares. Elanco, the animal-health division of Eli Lilly and Co.,…
Wheaton World Wide Moving has named two executives to fill the president and CEO positions long held by Stephen F. Burns, who will remain chairman, the Indianapolis moving company announced today. Effective Jan. 1, Chief Operating Officer Mark Kirschner will become CEO and Executive Vice President Dave Witzerman will become president. Burns has led the […]
