United Airlines expects year-end travel to top Thanksgiving despite omicron variant
United Airlines said Tuesday it expects to fly more passengers each day during the year-end holidays than Thanksgiving, a sign… Read More »
American CEO Doug Parker Says Government Aid “Saved the Airline Industry”
American Airlines CEO Doug Parker is prepared to tell a United States Senate committee on Wednesday that the $54 billion… Read More »
Spirit Airlines To Debut Service From Memphis
Spirit Airlines has announced the addition of Memphis International Airport (MEM) to its ever-growing route map. Starting in April 2022,… Read More »
DOJ Asks Judge to Proceed with Suit Against American/JetBlue Alliance
The United States Department of Justice on Monday asked a federal judge to proceed with its lawsuit against the new… Read More »
Aer Lingus (UK) begins narrowbody transatlantic operations
Aer Lingus (United Kingdom) (Belfast City) took delivery of its first narrowbody aircraft, an A321-200NX(XLR), last month and inducted it… Read More »
Delta rejigs LATAM Airlines Group, Aeromexico ownership
Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) is re-organising its shareholding in Grupo Aeroméxico and the LATAM Airlines Group along… Read More »
US’s Southern Airways Express orders 20 Regent Seagliders
Southern Airways Express (9X, Memphis Int’l) has signed a USD250 million deal for twenty all-electric Regent Craft Seagliders, a new… Read More »
Virgin Atlantic receives $528mn boost from shareholders
Virgin Atlantic (VS, London Heathrow) is to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic with a bolstered balance sheet following a fresh… Read More »
Taiwan’s Mandarin Airlines set to end E190 operations
Mandarin Airlines (AE, Taichung Ching Chuan Kang) has accelerated the planned retirement of its E190 fleet and will conclude the… Read More »
St. Maarten’s Winair secures added $1.5mn Dutch gov’t loan
The Dutch government has decided to grant another USD1.5 million loan to help struggling Winair (WM, St. Maarten) survive but… Read More »
Ukraine Int’l Airlines to damp-lease a 767 for longhaul ops
Ukraine International Airlines (PS, Kyiv Boryspil) has announced it will damp-lease a B767-300(ER) from Portugal’s euroAtlantic Airways (YU, Lisbon) to… Read More »
American Airlines trims 2022 network due to 787 delays
American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) has announced a series of network cuts owing to B787 production line issues at Boeing… Read More »
Cathay Pacific to move pilots to US to avoid quarantine
Cathay Pacific (CX, Hong Kong Int’l) is trialling the temporary placement in Los Angeles Int’l, US of its B777 pilots… Read More »
American Airlines is looking to hire 18,000 new employees
American Airlines is looking to hire 18,000 new employees as the travel industry continues to rebound from the pandemic. CEO… Read More »
Russian airlines and Airbus establish sustainable fuel alliance
Russian carriers including Aeroflot, S7 Group and Volga-Dnepr Airlines are to co-operate with Airbus and energy firm Gazprom to create… Read More »
United Airlines invests $35 Million in ZeroAvia (Hydrogen-Electric Engines)
United Airlines is spending $35 million to acquire an equity stake in hydrogen-electric engine developer ZeroAvia. Hydrogen-electric engines use… Read More »
Lodz showed up on the cover of the Polish edition of National Geographic Traveller Magazine!
A new issue of ‘Traveller’ is now available on newsstands. It is entirely devoted to the places distinguished in the… Read More »
RIX Weekly Update
This week Riga Airport connects passengers to 82 destinations The Christmas time is coming and the number of exciting winter… Read More »
Delta Air Lines Makes Financial Investments in Partners
Delta Air Lines today announced it will make a financial investment in three of its partner airlines to help the… Read More »
Delta Air Lines Expands Investment in Partner Carriers
Delta Air Lines announced plans to expand its investment in partner airlines Virgin Atlantic, Aeromexico and LATAM. The investments are… Read More »
United To Retrofit Regional Carriers With Zero-Emission Engines by 2028
United Airlines, which two weeks ago became the first commercial airline to operate a flight carrying passengers using 100 percent… Read More »
Etihad Airways Might Bring Back the A380 for one Last Hurrah
Since the pandemic hit in early 2020 many airlines abandoned its use of the Airbus 380, the world’s largest commercial… Read More »
Alaska Airlines Expands Oneworld Partnership With New West Coast International Flights
Ready to start planning that long-awaited, much-deserved vacation or trip to Europe and destinations beyond? Alaska Airlines and our fellow… Read More »
Malta’s Corendon Airlines Europe eyes US charters
Corendon Airlines Europe (XR, Malta Int’l) plans to launch charter flights to the United States, its application for a US… Read More »
Japan mulls $616mn aid to airlines next fiscal year
Japanese airlines could receive further state aid totalling JPY70 billion yen (USD616 million) during the 2022 fiscal year starting in… Read More »
Ryanair to re-open Nuremberg base in summer 2022
Ryanair (FR, Dublin Int’l) will re-open a base in Nuremberg in southern Germany next summer with two aircraft, opening 13… Read More »