JetBlue Boosting Grenada Flights for Summer

It just got even easier to get to the Caribbean’s Spice Isle. New York City-based carrier JetBlue has launched a flight expansion to Grenada for the summer season, highlighted by relaunched daily flight service to the island. The expanded service, which launched last week, is operating every day from New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport […]

Spanish LCC Volotea opens Italy base at Cagliari

Spanish LCC Volotea has opened a new base in Italy at Cagliari Elmas Airport, where it has two Airbus A319s. Cagliari, located on the Italian island Sardinia, is the carrier’s 13th base, the fifth in Italy, from where it operates 15 routes. Since Volotea began operations in Cagliari in 2012, the number of passengers carried […]

Ryanair opens second French base

Ireland-based LCC Ryanair has opened its second base in France, at Bordeaux; it already has one at Marseilles. The carrier intends to station three Boeing 737-800s at the southwest French airport, from which it will serve 37 routes in 14 countries with up to 86 weekly flights. The airline anticipates the new arrangement will bring […]

JetBlue revises 2Q guidance on strong revenue trends

JetBlue Airways increased the bottom end of its projected second-quarter (2Q) unit revenue guidance, aligning with both the carrier’s short-term outlook of an increasing revenue environment and bigger-picture trends that show strong demand and pricing. The New York-based carrier now sees a year-over-year RASM increase of 2%-4% in the quarter, up from the 1%-4% range […]

La Compagnie to show off A321neo at Paris air show

All-premium transatlantic carrier La Compagnie is to display its Airbus A321neo during the upcoming Paris air show. La Compagnie is formally putting its initial aircraft (F-HBUZ) into service on the route between Paris Orly and Newark on 6 June. The CFM International Leap-1A-powered aircraft, leased from GECAS, has been configured with 76 lie-flat seats. Airbus […]

EgyptAir plans Washington increase as it eyes Chicago

EgyptAir plans to add frequencies on its new service to Washington Dulles airport in the «near future» as part of a larger push into North America. The Star Alliance carrier began three-times weekly service to Dulles from its Cairo base with a Boeing 787-9 today. Washington, DC is EgyptAir’s second US destination after New York, […]

Korean Air vows to go after LCC competition

Korean Air chairman and chief executive Walter Cho has vowed to act more aggressively against the growing competition from low-cost carriers in its home market. Speaking during a press conference at the IATA Annual General Meeting, he says that the carrier has been watching the rise of LCCs passively, but that will now change. “In […]

KLM signs up to 10-year bulk biofuel commitment

KLM has agreed to purchase 75,000 tonnes of biofuel a year from 2022 onwards from a new plant being developed in Amsterdam. The Dutch carrier says that under a 10-year agreement it will take 75% of the fuel produced annually by SkyNRG at its planned Delfzijl site, which will be Europe’s first dedicated plant for […]

FAA bans US flights over Venezuela

FAA has issued an emergency order banning all flight operations by US pilots and carriers in Venezuelan airspace, citing “increasing political instability and tensions” and the “associated inadvertent risk to flight operations” stemming from the deteriorating political situation in the country. Mass protests have broken out in Caracas this week as opposition leader Juan Guaidó […]

Iberia takes over orders for four Aer Lingus A350s

IAG has transferred Aer Lingus orders for four Airbus A350-900s to Spanish flag-carrier Iberia. Aer Lingus had originally ordered six A350s in April 2008, and increased this to nine of the type through a swap of three A330s. But the Irish carrier, which was originally due to receive the A350s from 2014, has deferred deliveries […]