Alaska Airlines Takes Delivery of First Boeing 737-9 MAX
Alaska Airlines announced it accepted the delivery of its first Boeing 737-9 MAX airplane on Sunday. The carrier’s first 737-9 was… Read More »
Hertz Giving Away Free Car, Home Cleaning for a Year
Car rental giant Hertz is looking to help travelers during the coronavirus outbreak by offering a new sweepstakes featuring a grand prize… Read More »
The Ultimate Girls Getaway in the Caribbean
The year 2020 was no doubt a challenging year for all. Everyone’s world was flipped upside down in early spring,… Read More »
Vacation Villa Rental Demand Is Rising Due To COVID-19
Luxury villa rental provider Villas of Distinction reports that it’s seeing increased demand among travel consumers for U.S. domestic villas as a… Read More »
Hyatt Now Offering Free COVID-19 Tests in All Latin American Hotels
Hyatt announced that all nineteen of its properties in Latin America, including those in Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America,… Read More »
Wyndham Announces Seven Hotels for Namesake Brand
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, the world’s largest hotel franchising company with approximately 9,000 hotels across 90 countries, today announced plans… Read More »
Travel Trends Driving Record River Cruise Bookings
AmaWaterways was the only U.S.-based river cruise company to sail in Europe during 2020, and the cruise line has noticed some… Read More »
Holland America Line’s 2022-23 Extended Grand Voyages Open for Booking
Holland America Line’s Grand Voyages are made for dreamers, adventurers and explorers seeking to discover new cultures and illuminating experiences…. Read More »
Azamara To Get a Fourth Ship Under New Ownership
Equity firm Sycamore Partners plans to add a fourth sister ship when it acquires boutique cruise line Azamara from Royal Caribbean Group…. Read More »
MSC Grandiosa Resumes Service in the Western Mediterranean
MSC Cruises’ flagship MSC Grandiosa departed the evening of Jan. 24 from Genoa, Italy, as it resumes seven-night cruises in the Mediterranean…. Read More »
Carnival Cancels More Cruises, Suspends San Diego Season
Carnival Cruise Line has canceled some cruises through November 2021 as it moves ships in preparation for its phased-in return to… Read More »
Etihad warns of more job cuts
Etihad Airways (EY, Abu Dhabi Int’l) has again warned staffers of yet more job losses having already carried out several… Read More »
PIA pays $7mn in lease dispute but $2mn still in balance
PIA – Pakistan International Airlines (PK, Islamabad Quaid-e-Azam Int’l) has paid USD7 million to Irish lessor Peregrine Aviation as part… Read More »
Canada’s R1 Airlines retires only Challenger 800
R1 Airlines (TSH, Calgary) retired its only Challenger 800 (CRJ200) regional jet in September 2020, ch-aviation research has revealed. C-GEXM… Read More »
Nigeria’s Air Peace resumes inc’l ops in mid-1Q21
Air Peace (P4, Lagos) has announced the resumption of intercontinental flights – from Lagos to Sharjah in the United Arab… Read More »
Air Seychelles may be reduced to a domestic carrier – Pres.
The Seychellois president, Wavel Ramkalawan, has touted the possibility that Air Seychelles (HM, Mahé) may be reduced to a domestic… Read More »
Latvia’s airBaltic to built MRO hangar for A220s at Riga
airBaltic (BT, Riga) plans to build a new hangar at Riga to maintain its fleet of twenty-five A220-300s, the airline… Read More »
AirAsia Group plans to raise $112mn in private placement
AirAsia Group has revealed plans to raise about MYR454.51 million ringgit (USD112.4 million) by issuing up to 668,394,816 new shares… Read More »
KLM announces up to 1,000 more job cuts
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KL, Amsterdam Schiphol) is cutting up to 1,000 more jobs as the airline is forced to… Read More »
India’s SpiceJet to wet-lease A330, B767 for cargo ops
SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) has announced that it will wet-lease an unspecified A330 and a B767 for its growing cargo… Read More »
Should you be taking out more loans?
With many small businesses just barely hanging on, National Business Capital & Services CEO Joe Camberato believes now is the… Read More »
Baby kangaroo hops aboard American flight
Video of a baby kangaroo hopping onto a flight operated by PSA, American Airlines’ regional affiliate, is lighting up social… Read More »
Boutique hotel in Mexico returns guests to 1693 in style
An American-born designer has transformed a 17th-century house in Guanajuato, Mexico, into a luxury boutique hotel with three distinctive suites… Read More »
Pacific Princess sold by Princess Cruises
Pacific Princess, in service since 1999, has been sold by Princess Cruises, which is removing its less efficient ships. The… Read More »
American Airlines to sell its onboard wines online
American Airlines is expanding its prestigious Flagship wine program into an online program, Flagship Cellars, that makes its onboard wines… Read More »
Hawaii’s losses in lodging will lead nation, study says
Hawaii will fare the worst of any state in a US hotel industry that’s expected to continue taking a beating… Read More »