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Oscar-winning screenwriter and Tony Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard will receive the Writers Guild of America West's 2013 Laurel Award for Screen. The award, which was announced Monday morning, honors a lifetime achievement in outstanding writing for motion pictures. Stoppard, 75, will receive the award at the WGAW's 2013 Writers Guild Awards West Coast ceremony Feb. 17 at the JW Marriott's Los Angeles L.A. Live. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Golden Globes 2013 :  List  |  Red Carpet  |  Winners  |  Ballot  |  Moments  |  Quotes | Best & Worst Stoppard has written such films as "Shakespeare in Love," for which he earned his Academy Award, "Brazil," "Empire of the Sun" and "Billy Bathgate," and such classic plays as "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and "The Real Thing.

Oscar-winning screenwriter and Tony Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard will receive the Writers Guild of America West's 2013 Laurel Award for Screen. The award, which was announced Monday morning, honors a lifetime achievement in outstanding writing for motion pictures. Stoppard, 75, will receive the award at the WGAW's 2013 Writers Guild Awards West Coast ceremony Feb. 17 at the JW Marriott's Los Angeles L.A. Live. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Golden Globes 2013 :  List  |  Red Carpet  |  Winners  |  Ballot  |  Moments  |  Quotes | Best & Worst Stoppard has written such films as "Shakespeare in Love," for which he earned his Academy Award, "Brazil," "Empire of the Sun" and "Billy Bathgate," and such classic plays as "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and "The Real Thing.

America West Holdings Corp.'s America West Airlines Inc. said President Richard Goodmanson resigned and Chairman and Chief Executive Bill Franke assumed the post. America West reorganized the unit into two groups, operations and corporate. Gilbert Mook, 56, former senior vice president of air operations at FDX Corp., will head the operations group as executive vice president and chief operating officer. W.

Chip Johannessen, writer and co-executive producer of the TV series "Homeland" and "24", is among eight new members elected to the Writers Guild of America, West board of directors. Johannessen had the highest number of votes, 11%, among 15 candidates vying for eight board seats, the guild said in a statement Friday. Other new board members elected are Michael Oates Palmer, writer and co-producer for the TV series "Shark"; John Aboud, writer for "Leverage"; film writer Scott Alexander, whose credits include "1408" and "The People vs. Larry Flint"; and Marjorie David, who has worked on such TV shows as "90210" and "Brothers and Sisters.

America West Airlines on Thursday announced an agreement with Kawasaki Leasing International Inc. that will lend the troubled carrier the $23 million it needs to get on with reorganizing its finances. The Kawasaki deal gives America West the last piece of $200 million in financing it needed to get out of federal bankruptcy court, where it landed in June. "It's an important piece of financing," America West spokeswoman Daphne Dicino said.

America West Airlines on Wednesday said it had received court approval for a crucial $155-million financing and marketing plan that will allow it to remain operating while it tries to reorganize under bankruptcy court protection. The Phoenix-based airline, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy court protection in June, said most of the financing will come as $100 million in deferred payments on its airplane leases. The payments will be deferred until Dec. 1.

America West Airlines plans to reconfigure its service out of Orange County's John Wayne Airport, reducing service to Sacramento while adding a corresponding number of flights to Seattle and Phoenix, company officials said Monday. The discount carrier will trim three of its eight daily flights to Sacramento and shift that service to other routes this fall, according to America West spokesman Gus Whitcomb. He said the carrier will add another flight to Phoenix on Sept.

America West said it has fully complied with a pact it reached last year with the Federal Aviation Administration, thereby saving the Phoenix-based airline $2.5 million. The FAA had alleged that America West had maintenance and operational lapses, and it proposed a $5-million fine. The airline paid half that amount, but the FAA said the other half would be forgiven if America West complied with a major overhaul of its maintenance and flight operations.

America West Holdings Corp.'s America West Airlines applied for $400 million in U.S. government loan guarantees to help recover from reduced demand and higher security costs after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. America West, which said it was close to bankruptcy after the attacks, is the first major U.S. carrier to seek the guarantees provided under a $15-billion federal bailout plan for the airline industry.

America West Airlines says its bankruptcy reorganization plan will propose replacing existing stock held by employees and other shareholders with new stock issued to creditors and new investors. Phoenix-based America West sought Chapter 11 refuge from its creditors in June. The reorganization plan, which will detail how America West plans to repay its debts, is due June 19.

Until recently, Chris Keyser was a largely untold story inside the Writers Guild of America, West. Now he is making waves as an unexpectedly strong contender in the union's upcoming and heated presidential contest. The co-creator of the Fox television series "Party of Five" is locked in an usually close race against the better-known Patric Verrone, a former two-term guild president who led the 8,000-member union during the 2007-08 strike and who remains a polarizing figure. The outcome of the election, to be announced Sept.

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US Airways Group Inc. and America West Holdings Corp., which combined in September to form a low-fare carrier, reported third-quarter losses Wednesday as fuel costs climbed. Revenue exceeded analysts' expectations. The pre-merger US Airways had a loss of $80 million, excluding a $664-million gain tied to its bankruptcy reorganization, in the 88 days before the transaction closed Sept. 27. The former America West lost $71 million.

US Airways and America West Airlines completed their merger Tuesday, creating the new US Airways that plans to mix low-cost efficiency with the reach and service of the biggest carriers. "Today we start a new chapter in aviation history," said Douglas Parker, the America West chief executive who will lead the fifth-biggest domestic carrier by passenger volume.

US Airways received final approval to exit bankruptcy protection for the second time in three years and merge with America West Holdings Corp. The ruling allows the airline to be purchased by America West, the nation's eighth-largest airline, as soon as Sept. 27. U.S.

America West Airlines plans to hire more than 1,000 people, expanding its workforce for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as part of a plan to boost the number of passengers carried next year by 10%. The new hires will raise the carrier's number of employees 7.7% from 13,000. Phoenix-based America West also will add four leased planes to its fleet.

The flight attendants union for America West Airlines rejected binding arbitration, bringing their labor dispute one step closer to a strike. The National Mediation Board will now set the date to begin a 30-day "cooling off" period. Work stoppages can begin at any time after those 30 days. The union said the two sides remain $16.5 million apart on salary and per-diem issues. "We're on the eve now of a major dispute. America West has put us here," said Bill McGlashen of the America West Assn.

As America West Airlines and US Airways approach the final milestones toward their planned combination, officials say the two companies could start operating as one by October. To complete the merger, shareholders of America West Holdings Corp., the parent of Tempe, Ariz.-based America West Airlines, will vote Tuesday on whether to approve the company's union with US Airways Group Inc. US Airways' unsecured creditors, a key party in the airline's bankruptcy case, have already given a thumbs-up.