El Al agrees on more state aid of about $50mn
El Al Israel Airlines (LY, Tel Aviv Ben Gurion) has reached agreement with Israel’s Ministry of Finance for the state… Read More »
OneWeb brings total in-orbit constellation to 394 satellites
OneWeb capped off a successful 2021 with the launch of a further 36 satellites by Arianespace from the Baikonur Cosmodrome… Read More »
Gogo completes 5G Network testbed construction
Gogo Business Aviation has completed construction of its seven-tower 5G testbed on schedule, and on budget. “These seven sites will… Read More »
Genius Brands added to JetBlue’s IFE library
JetBlue has launched a partnership with Genius Brands International and Spafax Inflight Entertainment, to feature Kartoon Channel! content as part… Read More »
Eurowings Discover inaugurates US service at TPA
Tampa welcomed the new leisure airline’s first American nonstop flight, from its Frankfurt base With a water salute welcome for… Read More »
Eurowings to expand at Göteborg Landvetter with new direct route to Hamburg
27th December 2021 update: The German low cost carrier Eurowings continues to expand in the Swedish market and at Göteborg… Read More »
Southwest Airlines Begins New Year With $39 Flight Sale
Southwest Airlines is kicking off the new year by putting flights on sale from $39 one-way for three days this… Read More »
United Flight Attendant Charged With Using False Name, Identity
In a bizarre story, a man who worked as a United Airlines flight attendant for 23 years is facing federal… Read More »
Mexico Welcomes Over 31 Million Air Travelers Through November
Mexican tourism officials announced more than 31 million international visitors arrived via airplane between January and November 2021. According to… Read More »
AirAsia Group plans name change to Capital A
AirAsia Group has filed a notice to the Bursa Malaysia stock exchange saying it is considering a change in its… Read More »
Kuwait Airways nixes Sri Lanka flights over forex
Kuwait Airways (KU, Kuwait) has pulled its flights to Sri Lanka after general sales agents (GSAs) and local airline offices… Read More »
Portugal’s Hi Fly transfers last A340 to Maltese AOC
Hi Fly (5K, Beja) transferred its last A340-300 to sister carrier Hi Fly Malta (HFM, Malta Int’l) on December 21,… Read More »
US’s AirBahn defers launch due to COVID-19
AirBahn (ARB, Ontario) has petitioned the US Department of Transportation to extend the validity of its certificate of public convenience… Read More »
Philippines AirAsia reopens Clark hub, ups frequencies
Philippines AirAsia (Z2, Manila Ninoy Aquino Int’l) reopened its Clark hub on January 2 with thrice-weekly flights to Caticlan, the… Read More »
Philippine Airlines exits Chapter 11
Philippine Airlines (PR, Manila Ninoy Aquino Int’l) has emerged from voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings with a strengthened balance sheet,… Read More »
Alaska Airlines starts initiative to train more African-American pilots
Alaska Airlines is starting an initiative to train more African-American pilots, a program that will hopefully lead to eventual employment… Read More »
U.S. airlines cancel another 1,400 flights as winter storms and Covid omicron variant hits
Airlines canceled hundreds of additional U.S. flights on Tuesday Jan. 4 in the wake of winter storms and as the… Read More »
SpiceJet brings Dolby to SpiceScreen
Low-cost airline SpiceJet has become the Indian airline to partner with to bring a cinema-like experience to passengers via its… Read More »
Airline and aviation trends show optimistic but challenging conditions for 2022
Needless to say 2020 and 2021 have been very challenging years for the travel industry, especially for airlines, airports, aircraft… Read More »
2021 was the safest year to fly since 2017
2021 was one of the safest year to fly, 81 people lost their lives in four fatal air accidents worldwide… Read More »
Philippine Airlines exits US bankruptcy and slashes up to $2 billion in debt
Philippine Airlines has said it has emerged from bankruptcy after a US court approved its plan to slash up to… Read More »
Don’t Miss These Cheap Flight Deals to Puerto rico
Scott’s Cheap Flights (SCF)—an email subscription service that constantly monitors airfares and sends the best flight deals directly to its… Read More »
U.S. airline stocks surge as investors shrug off 3000 flight cancellations
Airline investors shrugged off thousands of U.S. flight cancellations over the holidays even as airlines’ rough start to 2022 got… Read More »
Airline cancellations continue to rise so do passengers and stock prices
Sunday, January 2, was set to be a critical day for the airlines, a litmus test of sorts to gauge… Read More »
German Airways repossesses E190 from EGO Airways
German Airways (ZQ, Cologne/Bonn) has decided to terminate the sub-dry-lease of its E190 to Italy’s EGO Airways (E3, Milan Malpensa)… Read More »
Omicron temporarily downs Canada’s Pacific Coastal Airlines
Pacific Coastal Airlines (8P, Vancouver Int’l) has suspended all scheduled flights for two days until January 4, 2022, amid an… Read More »