Air Canada Boeing 737-8 MAX Forced To Make Emergency Landing
An Air Canada Boeing 737-8 MAX was forced to make an emergency landing earlier this week after suffering an engine… Read More »
AirAsia X restructuring plan may cost Airbus $5bn
Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) believes it could lose more than USD5 billion worth of orders if AirAsia X (D7, Kuala… Read More »
The Naughtiest Airline Passengers of 2020
The Worst of a Weird Year The year 2020 will go down as a year unlike any other, and while… Read More »
AirAsia to cut India stake to 13%, Tata mulls mega carrier
AirAsia Group plans to cut its stake in AirAsia India (I5, Bangalore Int’l) from 49% to just 13%, unnamed sources… Read More »
Germany’s SundAir enters Swedish scheduled market
SundAir (SR, Berlin Brandenburg Int’l) has launched scheduled weekly flights between Stockholm Arlanda and Beirut, its first scheduled services that… Read More »
New Zealand’s Jet Raro rebrands as Pasifika Air
New Zealand start-up Jet Raro (Christchurch) has rebranded as Pasifika Air (Christchurch) amid hopes to launch scheduled services to the… Read More »
Austria’s People’s suspends only route through mid-1Q21
People’s (PE, Altenrhein) has announced it has suspended its only scheduled route, from Vienna to Altenrhein, through February 14, 2021,… Read More »
United Airlines schedules B737 MAX reinduction for mid-1Q21
United Airlines (UA, Chicago O’Hare) has published schedules indicating that it will restart scheduled B737-9 operations on February 11, 2021…. Read More »
FedEx inks new $260mn deal with Qantas
TNT Australia, a subsidiary of FedEx, has inked a new six-year deal with Qantas Group valued at over AUD350 million… Read More »
Efforts to soften post-Brexit EU ownership rules snubbed
With the impact of Brexit on the airline industry still not clear just days away from the end of the… Read More »
Qantas, JAL to form JBA to stimulate market recovery
Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) and JAL – Japan Airlines (JL, Tokyo Haneda) have sought Australian Competition and Consumer Commission… Read More »
India’s FlyBig secures AOP, commences operations
FlyBig (Indore) has secured its Air Operator’s Permit (AOP) from the Indian Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and is… Read More »
Virgin Atlantic ends B747 operations, returns Gatwick slots
Virgin Atlantic (VS, London Heathrow) has completed the retirement of its fleet of B747-400s with the last unit of the… Read More »
Pakistan’s AirSial completes certification, preps for launch
AirSial (PF, Karachi Int’l) will begin commercial flight operations on Friday, December 25, after completing all of its regulatory requirements…. Read More »
DOT extends Oneworld JBA antitrust immunity to Aer Lingus
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has finalised its decision to include Aer Lingus (EI, Dublin Int’l) under Oneworld’s umbrella… Read More »
China’s Xiamen Airlines set for $610mn recapitalisation
Xiamen Airlines (MF, Xiamen) is set to be recapitalised after its three shareholders agreed to inject CNY4 billion yuan (USD610.7… Read More »
CAE expands into crew management and optimisation software with Merlot acquisition
CAE has announced the acquisition of Merlot Aero Limited (Merlot), a leading civil aviation crew management and optimisation software company for… Read More »
Embraer E190 commences revenue flights with Myanmar Airways International
Myanmar Airways International’s (MAI) first E190 commenced operations from Yangon yesterday, operating four flights throughout the day. In addition, MAI’s… Read More »
Wizz Air UK to launch six new holiday routes in the Spring
Wizz Air UK, the UK-registered subsidiary of Europe’s fastest growing and greenest airline* group, today announces the addition of six… Read More »
The Craziest Things TSA Seized in 2020
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners saw far less passenger traffic in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic brought travel to a grinding… Read More »
TSA Screens Pandemic Record Number of Travelers Ahead of Christmas
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screened nearly 1.2 million passengers at airport checkpoints across the country on Wednesday, the most since the COVID-19… Read More »
Aer Lingus Joins American Airlines in Trans-Atlantic Partnership
Officials from American Airlines are applauding the decision to allow Aer Lingus to join the trans-Atlantic joint business between American, British Airways,… Read More »