Puerto Rico’s airlift boom is continuing with Delta Air Lines’ planned launch of a new route from Detroit to San Juan. The nonstop route will operate weekly on Saturdays between Detroit Metropolitan Airport and San Juan’s Luis Munoz Marin…
The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) announces that Pedro Heilbron – Executive President of Copa Airlines and Vicepresident of ALTA’s Executive Committee – assumes the interim Presidency of ALTA until the next elections, according to the…
For the fifth consecutive year, Delta Air Lines won a Flyer Travel Award as the Most Preferred North American Airline, presented by Flyertea.com, a premier travel-focused online community in China. “We are honored to receive this prestigious award for…
Ethiopian Airlines won 2019 Best Cargo Airline-Africa Awards, a highly respected recognition in the air commercial industry, the company’s Managing Director, Tewolde Gebremariam, said on Monday. The award is a testimony to the leading role we play for the…
The federal government projects that the Santa Lucía airport will cost just 12% of the former government’s canceled project at Texcoco, México state, and will open in June 2021 with a capacity for 20 million passengers a year. Project…
Infraero, Empresa Brasileira de Infraestrutura Aeroportuária is one of the three largest airport operators in the world, managing 54 airports across Brazil. It facilitates more than 100 million passengers each year, accounting for nearly 60 percent of Brazil’s air…
Airlines continue to improve their handling of checked bags, getting more bags to the right destination on time even as the number of airline passengers grows each year. That was the key finding in SITA’s 2019 Baggage IT Insights…
Construction of the federal government’s new airport in México state will begin Monday, President López Obrador announced today (wednesday), just as an official report came out warning that it could reach saturation just 10 years after starting operations. “I’ll…
The Spanish airline EVELOP! will soon start using the newly manufactured Airbus A350-900 on its flights to Cuba, beginning in May. The aircraft will transfer travelers who, from Spain, wish to visit the Caribbean, in particular the wonderful destination…
Avianca chief executive Hernan Rincon will leave the Bogota-based airline effective 30 April, as the carrier and its majority shareholder face increasingly challenging times. Hernan Rincon, who joined the Star Alliance carrier in April 2016, is leaving the airline…