Female Passenger Allegedly Assaults Flight Attendant
A woman flying on an American Airlines flight from Miami to New York allegedly assaulted a flight attendant while en… Read More »
FAA Says Naughty Passenger Behavior Is ‘Off The Charts’
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says there has been an unsettling increase in unruly behavior and violent incidents aboard commercial… Read More »
New Flight Routes Taking Off This Summer
Summertime Service Air travel will look much closer to normal this summer as carriers across the U.S. introduce new routes to meet… Read More »
New Research Shows New Net Zero Model Brings Benefits for Hotel Sector
A new paper co-authored by international property consultancy Gleeds, global engineering and design consultancy Arup, global hospitality company IHG Hotels… Read More »
Days Inn Offering $10,000 For 2-Week ‘Suntern’ Gig
Days Inn by Wyndham is now offering one lucky young adult the opportunity of a lifetime: the “Sunternship”. Travel enthusiasts… Read More »
Ethiopian Mozambique Airlines suspends flights
Ethiopian Mozambique Airlines (EMZ, Beira) has announced the indefinite suspension of its domestic flights from May 6, 2021, citing as… Read More »
Lufthansa orders five B787-9s, five A350-900s
Lufthansa (LH, Frankfurt Int’l) has announced it has ordered five whitetail B787-9s with deliveries scheduled to begin in 2021, as… Read More »
Burundi axes transport minister amid graft claims
Burundi’s Minister of Commerce, Transport, Industry, and Tourism, Immaculee Ndabaneze, has been sacked for “compromising the economy and tarnishing the… Read More »
Brazil’s GOL announces $94.5mn capital increase
GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes (G3, Sao Paulo Congonhas) will initiate a capital increase of up to BRL512 million reais (USD94.5… Read More »
DOT affirms Cape Air EAS selection at Bar Harbor, Maine
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has affirmed the selection of Cape Air (9K, Hyannis) to provide state-subsidised essential air… Read More »
Singapore Airlines raises $1.5bn through sale/lease-backs
Singapore Airlines (SQ, Singapore Changi) has announced the conclusion of sale/lease-back transactions with four lessors, covering seven A350-900s and four… Read More »
Nigeria’s Ibom Air, Dana Air eye interline partnership
In a first for the Nigerian domestic market, Ibom Air (QI, Uyo) and Dana Air (9J, Lagos) have reached an… Read More »
Bahrain’s DHL International Aviation to grow B767 fleet
DHL International Aviation Middle East (ES, Bahrain Int’l) will take deliveries of a further six P2F-converted B767-300(ER) freighters by the… Read More »
Indonesia’s Super Air Jet eyes LCC model with A320s
Super Air Jet is an Indonesian start-up planning to launch in “the near future” with a fleet of 180-seat A320-200s… Read More »
China’s Juneyao Air targets HNA Group assets – report
Juneyao Air (HO, Shanghai Hongqiao) is establishing an investment company together with strategic investors as a means of investing in… Read More »
India’s SpiceJet defers up to 50% of April wages
SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) has deferred payment of between 10% and 50% of its employees’ salaries for April, blaming it… Read More »
Egypt’s Air Cairo receives its first A320neo
Air Cairo has taken delivery of its first A320-200N which arrived on the 26 April, it’s the first of three… Read More »
Finnair will fly to more than 60 destinations this summer
In June, Finnair will resume flights to Reykjavik, Bodø, Nice, Lisbon and Vilnius. It will also add flights to Rhodes,… Read More »
StandardAero awarded PT6A engine services contract for Air Seychelles’ Fleet of DHC-6 Twin Otters
Air Seychelles, the national airline of the Republic of Seychelles, has awarded StandardAero a multi-year contract to support the Pratt… Read More »
3 things to ask about digital transitions
Leaders can prepare their companies for digital transformation with questions that set up proper tools, timelines and workflows, software executive… Read More »
Norwegian Air: Pre-pandemic travel levels to occur by 2024
Norwegian Air expects to see pre-pandemic numbers in 2023 or 2024 for European short-haul travel. The carrier plans to increase… Read More »
Disney Wish to set sail in 2022
Disney released details for its Disney Wish cruise ship, which will set sail on its maiden voyage in 2022. The… Read More »
Perillo helps travel advisors with hassle-free bookings
Perillo Tours has been supporting travel advisors by sticking with a COVID Care promise and refunding more than $2 million… Read More »
Sunstone buys Calif. luxury hotel for $265M
Sunstone Hotel Investors has acquired the 130-room Montage Healdsburg hotel in California’s Sonoma County for $265 million, or around $2… Read More »
Happy homes for hefty prices offered by NYC hotels
Upscale hotel brands in Manhattan are drawing big spenders into the big-city good life by adding full-service residences to their… Read More »
Hotels face long road back for business travel
Drastic cutbacks in corporate travel in favor of remote conferencing will continue weighing down hotel recovery for many months, experts… Read More »