Airline Industry’s Best of the Best Awarded at 2021 Travvy Awards
The airlines certainly faced a challenging year. As the pandemic rolled into 2021 for a second year, airlines were still… Read More »
Southwest Airlines Agent Hospitalized After Alleged Assault by Passenger
Yet another U.S. airline employee, this time a Southwest Airlines operations agent, had to be hospitalized yesterday after suffering an… Read More »
United Adds 44 Direct Las Vegas Flights for CES 2022 Event
The CES 2022 event will return in-person to Las Vegas, taking place from January 5-8, 2022, and feature exhibitions from… Read More »
US’s Indigo Partners orders 255 A321neo Family jets
US-based private equity firm Indigo Partners has placed an order with Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) for 255 additional A321-200neo Family… Read More »
Spain’s Binter Canarias orders 4+1 ATR72-600s
Binter Canarias (NT, Las Palmas) has ordered four ATR72-600s from Avions de Transport Régional with an option for a fifth… Read More »
British Airways to Boost Workforce
British Airways wants its piece of the expected travel rebound. To ensure that, the international carrier said this week it… Read More »
Delta to Resume 12 Transatlantic Routes
Delta Air Lines is set to resume 12 of its transatlantic routes in the wake of the Biden Administration lifting… Read More »
IATA’s Willie Walsh Remarks at Arab Air Carriers Organization AGM
It is a great pleasure to address you in person, on what is my first trip to the Middle East… Read More »
India’s Akasa may order 70 to 80 Boeing 737 Max jets very soon
Boeing Co (BA.N) may win an order as early as this weekend for about 70 to 80 737 MAX jets… Read More »
LATAM Airlines Group has plans to receive up to 72 aircraft by 2028
LATAM Airlines Group has plans to receive up to 72 aircraft between 2021 and 2028, according to the latest financial… Read More »
Improved rest period for flight attendants proposed by FAA
The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed a regulation to require that flight attendants have a… Read More »
Southwest Executive Talks Travel Advisors, Business Travel, COVID-19 Impact
The airline industry continues to bounce back from the devastation of the coronavirus outbreak, and Southwest Airlines is at the… Read More »
Southwest Donates Over $1 Million in Travel Awards To Nonprofits
For its 50th Anniversary, Southwest Airlines launched the One Million Acts of Kindness contest in January 2021 to support and… Read More »
Air Alderney secures AOC, plots 2022 launch
Air Alderney has been granted an Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) and is planning to launch charter and scheduled services out… Read More »
Pakistan’s Kashmir Air awarded TPRI licence
To promote tourism to the country, the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) has granted a Tourism, Promotion, and Regional Integration… Read More »
Israir, Arkia secure wet-leased 737 capacity
Smartwings (Czechia) (QS, Prague Václav Havel) has reached agreements wherein it will wet-lease a total of six B737-800s to Israir… Read More »
Future of South Africa’s Mango hangs in balance
The future of stricken state-owned Mango Airlines (JE, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) will be decided at a creditors’ meeting on Monday… Read More »
Canada’s Chrono Jet adds first 737-800
Chrono Jet (MBK, Québec) registered its first B737-800 in the form of C-GCAI (msn 30478) on November 2, 2021, ch-aviation… Read More »
Malta dusts off air taxi service plans to Gozo
The Maltese government is to upgrade an unused heliport on Gozo island in order to facilitate the establishment of an… Read More »
Latvia’s Union Aviation launches business charter operations
Union Aviation (Riga) has been granted an Air Transport Licence (ATL) in Latvia as a new business charter operator, the… Read More »
Samoa Airways needs $2.3mn to certify 737-800
Samoa Airways (OL, Apia Faleolo) needs a further WST6 million tala (USD2.3 million) to complete the necessary airworthiness certification of… Read More »
De Havilland resumes Dash 8-400 completion works
Following a three-month suspension, De Havilland Aircraft of Canada (DHC, Toronto Downsview) has resumed the completion of its remaining DHC-8-Q400s… Read More »
Singapore Airlines narrows its loss and cuts costs
Singapore’s reopening of travel lanes for vaccinated travelers won’t be an immediate game-changer for the country’s hard-hit airline, but it… Read More »
Chinese Airlines struggle to survive through the pandemic
European airlines celebrate the reopening of the U.S. on Nov. 8, their peers in China are worrying about how to… Read More »
India’s Jet Airways wants 100 aircraft within 5 years
Officials at Jet Airways made headlines, a few months ago, announcing that the airline, once fully revived, will start operations… Read More »
How to Find Cheap Flights This Thanksgiving Holiday
Scott’s Cheap Flights recently surveyed its members and found that travel intent is up for the holidays in 2021 versus… Read More »