The Latest Trends Ahead of Cruising’s Return
May Cruise Trends Online cruise marketplace CruiseCompete has released its CruiseTrends report for May 2021, peeling back the curtain to… Read More »
Carnival Cruise Line Reflags Mardi Gras to Bahamian Registry
Carnival Cruise Line’s newest ship, Mardi Gras, will be registered in The Bahamas instead of Panama and later this week… Read More »
Carnival Corp. Brands Resume Cruising in Europe, Caribbean
Seven cruise brands from Carnival Corp. & plc plan to resume operations this summer, with AIDA Cruises, Costa Cruises, Cunard, Holland America Line, Princess… Read More »
Carnival Cruise Line Names Mardi Gras Godmother
Carnival Cruise Line’s President Christine Duffy awarded the Miss Dominican Republic Kimberly Jiménez with the “Spirit of Carnival” award and… Read More »
Mokulele Airlines to deploy B1900s on Hawaii island service
Mokulele Airlines (MHO, Kona) – through its parent company Southern Airways Express (9X, Memphis Int’l) – has announced it will… Read More »
France’s CMA CGM Air Cargo expands into Asian markets
CMA CGM Air Cargo has announced it will add three more destinations to its scheduled cargo network from Liège, for… Read More »
US’s Allegiant earns $335mn in share issue
Allegiant Air (G4, Las Vegas McCarran) parent Allegiant Travel has entered into an underwriting agreement with Barclays Capital and Morgan… Read More »
SmartLynx Malta to add five A330s
SmartLynx Airlines Malta (LYX, Malta Int’l) has announced it will add three A330-300 makeshift freighters, converted from passenger aircraft through… Read More »
Wizz Air opens Rome Fiumicino base in late 2Q21
Wizz Air (W6, Budapest) is stepping up its expansion in Italy by stationing four A321-200NXs at Rome Fiumicino from July… Read More »
US’s Breeze Airways secures AOC, preps for launch
Breeze Airways (MXY, Salt Lake City) is close to finalising its regulatory proceedings after the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)… Read More »
FAA greenlights B737 MAX electrical fix
Boeing (BOE, Chicago O’Hare) has won approval from US regulators for a fix of an electrical grounding issue that affected… Read More »
Hawaiian Airlines Reservation Systems Shut Down due to Volume
More evidence that the demand for travel is going through the roof – though not exactly what you want to… Read More »
How Billions of Unused Airline Miles Could Impact Air Travel After COVID
According to a new ValuePenguin study, a massive number of unused airlines rewards miles that went unused in 2020 could cause… Read More »
Pent-Up Travel Demand Means Pent-Up Planes
The pent-up demand for travel created by more than a year of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic crisis has led… Read More »
All Sandals and Beaches Resorts Open in the Caribbean: A “Landmark Day”
Sandals Resorts International (SRI) Executive Chairman Adam Stewart announces the reopening of its two Barbados hotels – Sandals Barbados and… Read More »
World’s Largest Hotel Companies
Colossal Chains The hospitality industry has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year-plus, but the sector… Read More »
Royal Caribbean Suspends Global Cruising Until June 30
Royal Caribbean International is extending the suspension of its global fleet until June 30, 2021, citing health concerns and the… Read More »
CDC Adds New Cruising Guidelines for Return
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has added two more guidelines for cruise ship companies to follow… Read More »
Corruption and mismanagement at SAA under the spotlight
A total of 84 South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) contracts and 44 of its aircraft leases involving millions… Read More »
India’s GoAir rebrands, shifts to ULCC model
As it prepares for its Initial Public Offering (IPO), GoAir (G8, Mumbai Int’l) has taken the step of shifting to… Read More »
Delta Becomes First Airline To Require Vaccine for All New Hires
Delta Air Lines has become the first U.S. carrier to mandate that all new employees be vaccinated for COVID-19, the airline… Read More »
MGM Resorts Rolls Out Huge Slate of Entertainment
For a long time, the only places to go in the U.S. to gamble legally were Las Vegas and Atlantic… Read More »
Alaska Airlines increases E175, B737 MAX orders
Alaska Airlines (AS, Seattle Tacoma Int’l) has ordered seventeen incremental E175s and, at the same time, has firmed options for… Read More »
Canada’s Air North adds first ATR freighter
Air North (4N, Whitehorse Int’l) has added its first non-quick-change (QC) dedicated freighter in the form of an ATR42-300(F). C-FVGY… Read More »
Pipeline crisis forces American Airlines to adopt tech stops
American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) long-haul flights affected by a cyber attack-caused fuel supply shortage are to return to normal… Read More »
US’s Eastern Airlines drops transatlantic plans
Eastern Airlines (2D, Miami Int’l) has suspended its transatlantic ambitions after it dropped Sarajevo from its Summer 2021 schedule, ch-aviation… Read More »