Increasing fuel costs will likely lead to higher summer airfares
The continued pent-up demand for travel this summer could push airlines to the brink of returning to pre-pandemic traffic levels… Read More »
JetBlue Launches Flights Between NYC and Puerto Vallarta
JetBlue announced the launch of service between New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and the popular Mexican tourism… Read More »
Flight Attendants Unions Asking for Extension of Mask Mandate
Despite a precipitous fall in the number of COVID-19 cases across the country, and an increase in the call for… Read More »
Delta Air Lines upgrades FlyReady travel requirements tool
Delta Air Lines announced new features were being added to its Delta FlyReady dashboard, the carrier’s digital solution that helps… Read More »
Southwest Airlines resumed expansion of Pilot Training Center
Southwest Airlines has resumed the expansion of its Pilot Training Center, according to the Dallas Morning News. The $13 million… Read More »
Spring Break Airfare Prices Still Down From 2019, but Rising Soon
According to new research from airfare tracker app Hopper, Americans looking to fly domestically over Spring Break could count themselves… Read More »
DHL Express in dispute with San Antonio Airport in Texas
DHL Express is taking legal action to prevent being locked out of San Antonio Int’l Airport in Texas over an… Read More »
US’s Breeze Airways to open Hartford base
Breeze Airways has announced it will open a new base at Hartford Bradley airport, adding eight new non-stop destinations to… Read More »
Australia’s FlyPelican consolidates Newcastle base
FlyPelican (FP, Newcastle Williamtown) is consolidating its operations at its base at Newcastle Williamtown on the east coast of Australia,… Read More »
Kenya Airways to downsize fleet
Kenya Airways is planning to downsize its fleet to 30 aircraft, a move that may see more staff lay-offs as… Read More »
Australia’s Rex gears up for trunk route competition
Rex – Regional Express (ZL, Wagga Wagga) plans to gear up to thirty B737-800s over the next five to seven… Read More »
AirAsia X announces more modest $28mn rights issue
AirAsia X has opted to downsize its planned rights issue and will now seek to raise MYR116 million ringgit (USD27.75… Read More »
Not all European low cost airline fleets are equal
The challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic have been met in different ways by different airlines in Europe. Broadly speaking,… Read More »
Colombia’s Ultra Air secures AOC and preps for launch
Ultra Air (Medellín José Maria Córdova) will commence flight operations on February 23, having secured its air operator’s certificate (AOC)… Read More »
Air Canada orders A220s and adds more 787-9s
Air Canada has reordered twelve A220-300s it previously cancelled and will take delivery of the jets in 2024-2025, it said… Read More »
Norwegian muscles in on Danish domestic market
Norwegian (DY, Oslo Gardermoen) will launch a Danish domestic seasonal route between Copenhagen Kastrup and Rønne on the island of… Read More »
Romania’s Rom Cargo Airlines plans US flights
Rom Cargo Airlines (NJ) is planning to expand its network to the United States, an application to the US Department… Read More »
Norwegian mulls Airbus order amid Boeing litigation
Norwegian (DY, Oslo Gardermoen) executives have been meeting with Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) as the all-Boeing carrier considers placing an… Read More »
Kuwait Airways revises Airbus order and adds A330-900s, A321LRs
Kuwait Airways has concluded an agreement with Airbus to restructure its outstanding order book. Chairman Ali Al-Dakhan told a press… Read More »
Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Airlines granted an operating licence
The Hong Kong Air Transport Licensing Authority (ATLA) has awarded an operating licence (OL) to Greater Bay Airlines (HGB, Hong… Read More »
Iceland’s Niceair to launch with a chartered A319 in Q2
Niceair (Akureyri) plans to begin scheduled operations as a virtual carrier on June 2, 2022, amid hopes that tourism demand… Read More »
London judge orders Airbus to delay cancellation of Qatar’s A321neo
A London High Court judge has ordered Airbus to delay any “practical effects” of its unilateral cancellation of Qatar Airways… Read More »
All Nippon Airways plans eVTOL air taxis in Japan
Japan’s ANA Holdings, the parent company of ANA – All Nippon Airways (NH, Tokyo Haneda), and US flying taxi start-up… Read More »
Taiwan’s Starlux Airlines adds first A330-900 widebody
Starlux Airlines is on track to begin A330-900 operations in early summer after it took possession of its first of… Read More »
China Southern adds first A319neo
China Southern Airlines, as the type’s launch operator, took delivery of its first A319-100Ns on February 19 with B-328A (msn… Read More »
Air Busan signs up for CAE’s AI-powered training system
CAE announced at the Singapore Airshow that Air Busan has now successfully launched CAE Rise for its flight training operations…. Read More »