Alaska Airlines Starts Nonstop Service Between San Diego and Mexico City

Alaska Airlines today begins nonstop service between San Diego and Mexico City"™s Benito JuarezInternational Airport. San Diego is the third West Coast city to see nonstop service to Mexico"™s largest metropolitan city with Los Angeles and San Francisco added in August 2017. With more than 100 flights a week to Mexico from California, Alaska Airlines […]

Denver approves $1.8 billion, 34-year public-private airport contract

Denver City Council approved on Tuesday a $1.8 billion public-private partnership project to redesign the Jeppesen Terminal of Denver International Airport (DEN), the latest airport to use this financing structure for redevelopment. P3s, which are more commonly used in Europe, Australia and Canada, are typically made up of a private consortium of companies to design, […]

Too hot to fly? How heat affects airlines

Hot weather has forced dozens of commercial flights to be canceled at airports in the Southwest this summer. This flight-disrupting heat is a warning sign. Climate change is projected to have far-reaching repercussions "“ including sea level rise inundating cities and shifting weather patterns causing long-term declines in agricultural yields. And there is evidence that […]

IATA: Airlines to report higher Q2 profits

More than three-quarters of airline chief financial officers and heads of cargo indicated that profitability increased in the second quarter of 2017 versus a year earlier, according to a quarterly airline business confidence index survey conducted by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Seventy-seven per cent of respondents reported that profitability increased year-on-year in the […]

Singapore Airlines Q1 profit rises 45.6 pct on higher revenue

Singapore Airlines Ltd on Thursday reported a 45.6 percent rise in first-quarter operating profit, with revenue rising as it filled a higher proportion of seats. The carrier, which is seen as a barometer of the Asian airline industry, made S$281 million ($207 million) in the three months ended June 30, up S$88 million from a […]

WestJet ULCC venture: Success depends on one key cost area – Labor.

We all have observed that as unit cost gap narrowed between network re-launched operations and LCC (Low Cost Carrier), a "revised" cost conscious and aggressively pushed ancillary revenue airline model appeared. ULCC (Ultra Low-Cost Carrier) aggressively collect ancillary revenue from unbundled services allowing them to stimulate the market through even lower fares while undercutting LCCs […]

IATA: Latin American aviation industry needs government support

IATA regional VP for the Americas Peter Cerda, at the IATA AGM, said (05-Jun-2017) Latin America has all the necessary elements to become an aviation success story, but many of the region’s governments are not treating air carriers as partners that drive social and economic development. Mr Cerda said air transport generates USD167 billion in […]

The cost of going green

Having pledged to pursue carbon-neutral growth from 2020, airlines are committed to reducing the environmental cost of flying even as they gear up for decades of continued growth in air transport. A key tool in achieving this is the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA)"”a global market-based mechanism that will help airlines […]

New Partnership to Enhance Quality Assurance and Safety in Global Aviation Fueling

The International Air Transport Association (IATA), the Joint Inspection Group (JIG), and Airlines for America (A4A) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen and promote Safety and Quality Assurance in global aviation fueling activities. «Maintaining the quality of the aviation fuel supply and the supporting infrastructure and operations is vital to the safe and […]

Airlines face difficulty as they report lower profit margins, Iata says

The operating environment for global airlines will remain challenging after carriers in regions such as Europe reported lower first-quarter profit margins on higher costs and weak yields, the International Air Transport Association (Iata) reported. European carriers reported a drop in earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) margins during the first quarter, while North American and […]