Alaska Airlines launches flight subscription service in the US
Alaska Airlines has debuted Flight Pass, an innovative, subscription-based travel offering that allows members to fly up to 24 roundtrip… Read More »
Eight Republican Senators say they will reject a ‘No-Fly List’
A day after it was revealed that the airline industry and the Biden Administration have been collaborating “for months” on… Read More »
South Florida’s best attractions on the High-Speed Brightline train
Seeing South Florida on the High-Speed Brightline Train If you ask any South Floridian about traveling between West Palm Beach,… Read More »
Dream Hotel Group to Debut Chatwal Lodge on April 1
Dream Hotel Group will unveil the 100-acre Chatwal Lodge in New York’s Catskills Mountains on April 1, 2022. The Adirondack-style… Read More »
Hotel Industry’s 4th-Quarter Earnings Highlight Continued Recovery
Some of the biggest companies in the hotel industry have reported increased profits during the final quarter of 2021, indicating… Read More »
WorldHotels Adds Eight European Hotels
WorldHotels has added eight hotels in Europe to its Distinctive, Elite and Crafted portfolio of properties. Scotland’s Gleddoch Hotel Spa… Read More »
Taxi union fails in bid for South Africa’s Mango
The administrator of Mango Airlines (JE, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) has declined to comment on reports that South Africa’s national taxi… Read More »
India’s Alliance Air secures two ATR42s for Himalaya ops
Alliance Air (India) (9I, Mumbai Int’l) has secured two ATR42-600s on dry-lease from TrueNoord following a tender floated in November… Read More »
Ex-partner spurns $80mn settlement offer of India’s SpiceJet
Media mogul Kalanithi Maran and his conglomerate Sun Group have rejected a INR6 billion rupee (USD80 million) one-time settlement offer… Read More »
India’s flybig eyes ATR72-600s; Dash 8 wet-lease
flybig (S9, Indore) is to induct two ATR72-600s by March-end and is also planning to wet-lease a DHC-8-Q400 soon, an… Read More »
Delhi to sell Air India groundhandler Alliance Air
India’s central government will attempt to privatise the groundhandling arm of Air India (AI, Mumbai Int’l) that remains in state… Read More »
India’s Jet Airways secures $6.6mn loan to finance restart
Jet Airways (JAI, Mumbai Int’l) has secured a INR500 million rupee (USD6.6 million) unsecured inter-corporate deposit from Orion IT, a… Read More »
Finnair to keep Asia focus, as EC approves €49mn aid
Finnair (AY, Helsinki Vantaa) will not be deviating from its Asia-accented strategy, but until key markets like Japan, South Korea,… Read More »
Uzbekistan Airways takes delivery of first A321neo(LR)
Uzbekistan Airways (HY, Tashkent Islam Karimov) has taken delivery of its first A321-200NX(LR) with UK32101 (msn 10607) having been ferried… Read More »
Malaysia’s Capital A plans separate listing for AirAsia
The aviation businesses that Capital A (formerly AirAsia Group) owns will ultimately be managed independently from the parent and listed… Read More »
AirAsia to lease at least 100 Vertical Aerospace VX4 eVTOL aircraft
AirAsia Aviation Group will take at least 100 Vertical Aerospace VX4 electric vertical take off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft from… Read More »
Qantas, Alliance Airlines set up E190 base in Darwin
Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) is setting up a new E190 jet base at Darwin to service key QantasLink routes… Read More »
Corendon Dutch Airlines is introducing in-seat snacks and duty-free ordering
Corendon Dutch Airlines, the Amsterdam-based charter airline of the Corendon Airlines Group, has announced the introduction of new technology with… Read More »
KC-46 the right aircraft for KC-Y new U.S. tanker needs
Boeing stands ready to pitch the KC-46 should the US government hold a competition for a possible acquisition of up… Read More »
ST Engineering to convert world’s first 757 firefighting tanker
ST Engineering is to create the world’s first Boeing 757 firefighting aircraft through the conversion of a passenger jet, with… Read More »
Western Global Airlines orders two Boeing 777 Freighters
Boeing and Western Global Airlines announced on Feb. 16 a firm order for two 777-200LRF Freighters, the first new-production freighters… Read More »
FAA will perform pre-delivery inspections on new Boeing 787s
Federal safety regulators say they will retain power to approve Boeing 787 airliners for flight rather than return that authority… Read More »
Etihad Airways orders seven Airbus A350F freighters
Etihad Airways has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) for seven Airbus A350F freighters to add to its existing fleet… Read More »
Singapore Airlines orders seven A350F freighter jets to replace its 747-400F fleet
Singapore Airlines signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Airbus in December 2021 to purchase seven of the recently launched… Read More »
Transavia France resumes flights to Budapest
Budapest Airport is announcing another important route resumption, with Transavia France – part of the Air France-KLM group – once again… Read More »
SmartLynx Airlines orders six Airbus A321-200P2F passenger-to-freighters jets
Latvia’s SmartLynx Airlines orders six Airbus A321 passenger-to-freighters (P2F) from conversion firm EEFW, a European ACMI charter and cargo company… Read More »