New Zealand-based Pacific Blue and long-haul offshoot V Australia are now operating under the Virgin Australia banner. Pacific Blue’s 17 737s will be refurbished in the first half of calendar 2012, wh...
Spring Airlines is planning to launch a carrier in Japan. The Shanghai-based carrier has registered a company there and is looking for a Japanese partner because foreign investors can hold no more tha...
Chief financial officers from two major US airlines said they haven’t seen any softening demand. “As we look forward into December, January and February, we see no signs of any weakness or any signs o...
American Airlines and OpenSkies, a premium subsidiary of British Airways, have signed a new codeshare agreement. The agreement allows AA to place its code on OpenSkies flights between Newark Liberty I...
American Airlines’ disputes with its three largest unions may come to the fore once again in bankruptcy after the labor groups won seats on the creditors committee for parent AMR Corp. AMR singled out...
Shares in Singapore Airlines (SIA), fell 1% yesterday when news emerged that one its cargo freighters flying from the United Arab Emirates veered off the runway when landing at Singapore’s Changi Airp...
Southwest Airlines and subsidiary AirTran Airways have received route authority from the US Department of Transportation (DOT) for AirTran to operate international flights to new destinations in Mexic...
Vision Airlines has announced it will suspend all flights into Benedum Airport in Bridgeport after January 7 due to “unforeseen circumstances”. The airport had been offering Vision Airlines flights to...
LAN Airlines has re-launched Aires, which it acquired late last year, as LAN Colombia. LAN, which is in the process of merging with Brazil's TAM under LATAM Airlines Group, has invested $405 million i...
Air Canada’s chief executive officer, Calin Rovinescu, has warned employees in an internal memo that the airline needs to change its business model or risk following American Airlines into bankruptcy....
An Air Zimbabwe aircraft was denied ground handling services at South Africa's OR Tambo International Airport last Friday due to unpaid debts. Passengers were delayed by four hours waiting for their b...
African airlines are considering joint fuel purchases to help them reduce their overall fuel cost burden. The measure was discussed at the 43rd annual general assembly of the African Airlines Associat...
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