Audit points to graft, mismanagement at Thai Airways
A governmental audit has identified multiple cases of graft, corruption, and wrong business decisions as the reasons for Thai Airways… Read More »
Pakistan’s Serene Air adds maiden widebody, an A330-200
Serene Air (ER, Islamabad Quaid-e-Azam Int’l) took delivery of its first widebody aircraft, an A330-200, on August 27, 2020. AP-BNE… Read More »
President Trump Says He Will Help Struggling Airlines
President Donald Trump said that his administration would help out struggling airlines but gave no details on how. “We’ll be helping the… Read More »
Alaska Airlines Eliminates Change Fees on Service to All Destinations
Alaska Airlines announced today that it is permanently ditching its customer change fees for all tickets (except for Saver fares) on… Read More »
Flight Delayed After Two Women Brawl at NYC Airport
Two women forced a flight delay after they engaged in a fistfight on a jet bridge at a New York… Read More »
Southwest Puts Fall, Winter Flights on Sale
Southwest Airlines is kicking off September with another three-day sale featuring fares under $50 one-way and less than $100 roundtrip…. Read More »
Pilot Landing at LAX Sees Person With Jetpack in Flight Path
An American Airlines pilot preparing to land at a Los Angeles airport Sunday night got more than he bargained for when he… Read More »
Hawaiian Airlines Issues Furlough Notices
Pilots and flight attendants are among the first of nearly 1,000 employees to be laid off from Hawaiian Airlines as… Read More »
New App Arms Travel Advisors With Real-Time COVID-Related Intel
A game-changing new app called DragonSlayer is soon to launch, which promises to provide both travelers and their trusty travel… Read More »
New Data Reveals 42.5 Million Americans Predicted to Road-Trip Over Labor Day Weekend
Arrivalist, the travel industry’s leading location intelligence platform, is projecting that road-trip volume in the U.S. over the coming Labor Day… Read More »
India’s SpiceJet to debut seaplane operations in 4Q20
SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) will “likely” launch its long-touted seaplane operations in the state of Gujarat on October 31, 2020,… Read More »
Wings of Lebanon suspends operations, returns 737-700
WOL – Wings of Lebanon (W7, Beirut) suspended all operations effective August 26, 2020, “due to the prevailing economic situation… Read More »
Taiwan’s EVA Air rejigs Boeing 787 order backlog
EVA Air (BR, Taipei Taoyuan) has revised its Boeing (BOE, Chicago O’Hare) order backlog in light of the COVID-19 pandemic… Read More »
South Africa’s Comair outlines details of binding offer
Comair (South Africa) (MN, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) has revealed details of the binding offer it has chosen ahead of the… Read More »
Samoa bans international flights, including repatriations
The Government of Samoa has extended a nationwide state of emergency through September 27, 2020, widening the scope of restrictions… Read More »
India’s FlyBig hopes to team up with revived Jet Airways
FlyBig (Indore) founder and pilot-turned-entrepreneur Sanjay Mandavia is planning to pair the start-up regional carrier with a revived Jet Airways… Read More »
Colorado’s AspenJet eyes 1Q21 launch
AspenJet (Aspen) is a start-up carrier planning to launch during the first quarter of 2021, selling charter flights to Aspen… Read More »
Tanzania ramps up retaliatory bans on Kenyan airlines
The Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority (TCAA) has extended its ban on Kenyan airlines to include Fly540 (5H, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta),… Read More »
Belgium’s Air Antwerp delays restart
Air Antwerp (WP, Antwerp) said that it plans to relaunch scheduled flights between Antwerp and London City, its only route,… Read More »
US carriers detail furlough plans for 4Q20
American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) has announced plans to lay off and furlough a total of 19,000 staff members after… Read More »
Malaysia’s AirAsia X seeks creditors’ help as results plunge
AirAsia X (D7, Kuala Lumpur Int’l) has warned in its latest financial statements that its going concern status depends partly… Read More »
American Airlines Eliminates Change and Standby Fees
American Airlines is making changes to the travel experience. Like its competitors, the airline is eliminating change fees. It is also allowing… Read More »