Thai AirAsia mulls merger with rival LCCs
Thai AirAsia (FD, Bangkok Don Mueang) has initiated talks with rival low-cost carriers about a potential merger given the havoc… Read More »
Cyprus Airways plots restart in late 2Q20
Cyprus Airways (CY, Larnaca) is planning to gradually resume services from Cyprus, initially focusing on serving destinations in Greece. The… Read More »
Emirates Announces Firing Employees Amid the Pandemic
Emirates Airline, the last holdout among the Gulf region’s three major East-West carriers in retaining its workforce announced on May 31,… Read More »
Alaska Airlines Announces New Mileage Plan Promotions
Alaska Airlines announced three new promotions Monday that will benefit customers and Mileage Plan members. Officials from the carrier not only… Read More »
Cheap Airfare Pricing Could Make a Major Comeback After COVID-19
Air carriers are faced with some major strategic dilemmas when it comes to surviving and rebuilding business in the wake… Read More »
Delta Air Lines Working to Avoid Around 2,300 Pilot Furloughs
Delta Air Lines announced Sunday that the company is working with its pilots’ union to avoid furloughing roughly 2,300 pilots…. Read More »
21 Aircraft That Changed How We Travel
Revolutionary Aircraft Heavier-than-air human flight is just over a hundred years old, and the technological advances undertaken by the aviation… Read More »
Etihad Launches Wellness Program for COVID
Etihad Airways has launched ‘Etihad Wellness’, an expanded and more comprehensive health and hygiene programme and customer guide. This builds… Read More »
New United CEO Scott Kirby Comes Out Firing
United Airlines’ Scott Kirby, who took over as CEO last week in the wake of Oscar Munoz’s retirement, is wasting… Read More »
Delta Extends Change-Fee Waiver Through June 30
Air travel is starting to come back, but that doesn’t mean travelers aren’t wary about taking to the skies again…. Read More »
Southwest Airlines eyes restart of int’l routes in 3Q20
Southwest Airlines (WN, Dallas Love Field) is planning to restart its international flights to destinations in Mexico and the Caribbean… Read More »
Russia’s Pobeda to restart in late 2Q20
Pobeda (DP, Moscow Vnukovo) is planning to restart flights on 73 routes on June 1, 2020, after a two-month hiatus… Read More »
Bangladeshi carriers to resume domestic ops from late 2Q20
Private Bangladeshi carrier NovoAir (VQ, Dhaka) will resume scheduled domestic operations from June, after being largely grounded from late March… Read More »
Delta Air Lines Upgrades Health, Safety Guidelines
As travel restrictions are lifted, Delta Air Lines has implemented a series of health protocols to keep passengers safe as… Read More »
Boeing Resumes 737 MAX Production, Announces More Job Cuts
Boeing announced Wednesday it would be forced to cut more than 12,000 jobs in the United States due to the… Read More »
EasyJet cutting routes, staff as flights resume
easyJet (U2, London Luton) will resume flights in mid-June, but will cut routes and a third of its staff as… Read More »
Saudi Arabia to resume scheduled domestic flights
Saudi Arabia is set to resume scheduled domestic passenger flights from Sunday, May 31, onwards following a 71-day moratorium on… Read More »
Blue Islands resumes Jersey-London flights
Blue Islands (SI, Jersey) resumed services between Jersey and London Gatwick on May 26, 2020, although travel to the Channel… Read More »
Downsized Brussels Airlines to serve 59 destinations this summer
Brussels Airlines has downsized its summer operations, which will now consist of approximately 30% of its originally planned European flying schedule… Read More »
Wizz Air to open base at Larnaca airport in Cyprus this summer
Budapest-based Wizz Air will establish its 28th base at Larnaca (LCA) in Cyprus in July, basing two Airbus A320’s at the… Read More »
EasyJet to cut 30% of staff to match smaller network
EasyJet is making around 30% of its workforce redundant as it shrinks the size of its operations to match its… Read More »
World’s Busiest Airport Adopts New Tech to Fight COVID-19
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), normally the world’s busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic (when there isn’t a pandemic on),… Read More »
Key Takeaways From JD Power Airline Satisfaction Study
It’ll be imperative that airlines continue to be transparent and win travelers’ trust to be successful in a post-pandemic world, according to… Read More »
Delta may finish $3.5bn La Guardia rebuild “much sooner”
Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) plans to finish a USD3.5 billion redevelopment at New York La Guardia Airport… Read More »
European Commission will investigate Air Canada-Transat deal
Worries over a loss of competition on routes between Canada and Europe have led the European Commission to open an… Read More »
Air France union criticizes plan for domestic flight cuts
An Air France pilots’ union has expressed concerns over a plan being formulated to restructure the carrier’s domestic network, with… Read More »