Hawaiian Airlines, which is on the verge of beginning commercial service with its new Airbus A321neos, said it will use the planes to expand service from the West Coast next year. The airline will add a new route on…
Since 2007, straight-laced, utilitarian safety videos have steadily been replaced by self-parodying, pop culture riffs. Here"™s how it happened. This holiday season, the 6.4 million Americans traveling by plane will not lack for entertaining content while they taxi to…
In the first part of this annual recap, I covered recent changes in airline lounges and travel credit cards for frequent flyers, and these generally transcend your choice of who to actually fly. That"™s what we get to in…
The merger talks come two months after Airbus signed an agreement to take a majority stake in production of narrow-body planes made by Bombardier. US aerospace giant Boeing and Brazil’s Embraer said Thursday they were in talks on a…
TAP Also Adding Routes From Porto to Barcelona, London City, Milan, and Ponta Delgada in the Azores TAP Air Portugal continues to expand its European network with the addition of daily service to one of Italy"™s most romantic destinations,…
Hyatt Centric brand debuts two new hotels within France and Spain Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE:H) announced expansion of the Hyatt Centric brand with several consecutive international hotel openings in two of Europe"™s most coveted destinations. Hyatt Centric La Rosière,…
The story of how airport slots are allocated is not a simple one. The biggest complicating factor is that there are too few slots to go around. In an infrastructure utopia slots wouldn"™t be needed. There would be enough…
United Airlines this week is expanding its portfolio of nonstop flights from Denver to Hawaii and to Mexico. Denver International Airport"™s largest carrier is turning its formerly seasonal and typically-less-than-daily service to three of Hawaii"™s islands and turning it…
The Greater Toronto Airports Authority says today is expected to be the busiest day for pre-holiday travel at Pearson International Airport. The GTAA says more than 130,000 passengers are expected to go through the airport today. It also predicts…
Brazil’s third-biggest airline, Azul Linhas Aéreas, signed an agreement on Wednesday to create a private integrated logistics company to transport cargo in a joint venture with the state-owned Brazilian postal service Correios. Azul said in a securities filing that…