Puerto Rico’s Rafael Hernandez International Airport in Aguadilla just set a record for passenger traffic in a calendar year. Aguadilla is set on the northwest corner of the island of Puerto Rico. The airport handled more than 600,000 passengers…
LATAM Cargo, the leader in air cargo transportation from, to and within Latin America, announces a new cargo route between Santiago de Chile and Chicago to begin operations on February 19, making this city the company’s sixth destination in…
Brazil national security adviser Augusto Heleno said on Monday that the government is studying whether the deal between planemakers Embraer (EMBR3.SA) and Boeing (BA.N) is in its “ideal form” or in need of changes. Embraer in December agreed to…
Chilean airline JetSmart has been approved to fly 261 local and international routes from Argentina, the government said on Monday, making it the third low-cost carrier allowed to operate in Argentina as the government tries to cut the price…
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday he is concerned that a proposed sale of 80 percent of Embraer’s (EMBR3.SA) commercial aviation business to Boeing (BA.N) could lead to the U.S. planemaker taking over all of the division. Bolsonaro’s…
Puerto Rico’s biggest airport, the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport Airport in San Juan, is seeing a continued rebound in passenger traffic, according to new data from ASUR, which manages the airport. San Juan saw a 20.9 percent increase…
Starting this week, United Airlines will only let passengers bring dogs and cats as emotional support animals and will bar all support animals from flights longer than eight hours. The changes, which take effect Monday, are about finding the…
Last year, Chilean low-cost carrier Sky Airline announced plans to set up a subsidiary in neighboring Peru. After a few months of work, the carrier has been granted 34 routes by the Peruvian Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC),…
Analytical firm OAG Aviation Worldwide ranked the most punctual airlines in the world at the end of 2018 and concluded that the Panamanian Copa Airlines had the least delays and discrepancies with the schedule, according to the report “League…
Herb Kelleher, the eccentric founder of Southwest Airlines who helped revolutionize low-cost air travel, died Thursday. He was 87. The company announced his passing in a statement that described Kelleher as a «pioneer, a maverick, and an innovator.» The…
