American CEO Doug Parker Says Government Aid “Saved the Airline Industry”
American Airlines CEO Doug Parker is prepared to tell a United States Senate committee on Wednesday that the $54 billion… Read More »
Spirit Airlines To Debut Service From Memphis
Spirit Airlines has announced the addition of Memphis International Airport (MEM) to its ever-growing route map. Starting in April 2022,… Read More »
DOJ Asks Judge to Proceed with Suit Against American/JetBlue Alliance
The United States Department of Justice on Monday asked a federal judge to proceed with its lawsuit against the new… Read More »
Hyatt Centric Buckhead Atlanta Hotel Makes Opening Debut
Hyatt Centric Buckhead Atlanta, a lifestyle hotel located along the edge of Lenox Square, has officially opened its doors. This… Read More »
Hurtigruten More Than Doubles Galapagos Expeditions For 2023
Hurtigruten Expeditions is more than doubling its number of Galapagos expedition cruises for 2023, adding three new year-round itineraries ahead… Read More »
UAE backs down in slot row with Nigeria
In what appears to be a reconciliatory move to resolve a diplomatic dispute between Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates… Read More »
Aer Lingus (UK) begins narrowbody transatlantic operations
Aer Lingus (United Kingdom) (Belfast City) took delivery of its first narrowbody aircraft, an A321-200NX(XLR), last month and inducted it… Read More »
Delta rejigs LATAM Airlines Group, Aeromexico ownership
Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) is re-organising its shareholding in Grupo Aeroméxico and the LATAM Airlines Group along… Read More »
US’s Southern Airways Express orders 20 Regent Seagliders
Southern Airways Express (9X, Memphis Int’l) has signed a USD250 million deal for twenty all-electric Regent Craft Seagliders, a new… Read More »
Virgin Atlantic receives $528mn boost from shareholders
Virgin Atlantic (VS, London Heathrow) is to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic with a bolstered balance sheet following a fresh… Read More »
Taiwan’s Mandarin Airlines set to end E190 operations
Mandarin Airlines (AE, Taichung Ching Chuan Kang) has accelerated the planned retirement of its E190 fleet and will conclude the… Read More »
St. Maarten’s Winair secures added $1.5mn Dutch gov’t loan
The Dutch government has decided to grant another USD1.5 million loan to help struggling Winair (WM, St. Maarten) survive but… Read More »
Ukraine Int’l Airlines to damp-lease a 767 for longhaul ops
Ukraine International Airlines (PS, Kyiv Boryspil) has announced it will damp-lease a B767-300(ER) from Portugal’s euroAtlantic Airways (YU, Lisbon) to… Read More »
American Airlines trims 2022 network due to 787 delays
American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) has announced a series of network cuts owing to B787 production line issues at Boeing… Read More »
Cathay Pacific to move pilots to US to avoid quarantine
Cathay Pacific (CX, Hong Kong Int’l) is trialling the temporary placement in Los Angeles Int’l, US of its B777 pilots… Read More »
American Airlines is looking to hire 18,000 new employees
American Airlines is looking to hire 18,000 new employees as the travel industry continues to rebound from the pandemic. CEO… Read More »
Rolls-Royce hybrid-electric propulsion milestone
Rolls-Royce’s hybrid-electric aero power and propulsion system has delivered more than a megawatt of power just weeks after going on… Read More »
Russian airlines and Airbus establish sustainable fuel alliance
Russian carriers including Aeroflot, S7 Group and Volga-Dnepr Airlines are to co-operate with Airbus and energy firm Gazprom to create… Read More »
New concept aircraft can fly from London to San Francisco on a single tank of liquid hydrogen
A concept aircraft that can fly almost 10,000km on a single tank of liquid hydrogen has been unveiled as part… Read More »
United Airlines invests $35 Million in ZeroAvia (Hydrogen-Electric Engines)
United Airlines is spending $35 million to acquire an equity stake in hydrogen-electric engine developer ZeroAvia. Hydrogen-electric engines use… Read More »
Sydney Seaplanes orders 50 Embraer Eve eVTOLs
Sydney Seaplanes has agreed to add 50 of Eve Urban Air Mobility’s four-passenger eVTOLs to its fleet from 2026. The… Read More »
NASA says SpaceX is only provider so far able to provide astronaut rides
SpaceX is the only American company right now capable of sending astronauts to the International Space Station, NASA said in… Read More »