In the past year, Seattle-based Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) acquired smaller West Coast rival Virgin America and made plans to retire that brand. Over a 10-year period, Virgin America has built up a loyal customer base, particularly in the…
Ahead of Hurricane Harvey’s anticipated landfall on the Gulf coast, several airlines are working with customers to rebook travel to and from airports throughout the region: AMERICAN AIRLINES will work with customers traveling to or from Austin, Beaumont, Brownsville,…
WestJet Airlines (WJAFF), with headquarters in Calgary, is one of the leading airlines in Canada. The airline"™s low-airfare approach has enabled the company to expand rapidly during the past five years, says Roy Ward, editor of Cabot Benjamin Graham…
Vietjet Air, the airline that skyrocketed to fame for featuring bikini-clad stewardesses and making it"™s founder Vietnam"™s first female billionaire, has officially announced its plan to serve flights to Indonesia without the revealing and popular bikini gimmick. According to…
A new all-cargo airline has touched down at Miami International Airport as the airport. TACA Peru on Aug. 16 began operating four weekly scheduled freighter flights on A330-200F aircraft between Miami and Lima, Santiago, Bogota, Medellin and Buenos Aires….
About 400 demonstrators picketed in front of American Airline"™s Terminal D at Miami International Airport Thursday afternoon, marking the second time the airline"™s workers have protested job outsourcing this summer. The protest, organized by the Transport Workers Union, is…
Qantas Airways (QAN.AX) is set to formally announce plans to offer 20-hour non-stop flights from Sydney to London by 2022 if Airbus SE (AIR.PA) or Boeing Co (BA.N) can deliver aircraft that meet the distance, a source familiar with…
Brazilian airline GOL holds a special position in Latin American aviation, having ushered in the low cost model in South America during the early 2000s. Since that time it has faced competition from start-ups that have included Azul and…
The rapid growth of the Center of Excellence for Independent Validators in Pharmaceutical Logistics (CEIV Pharma) has led the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to consider a similar certification program for other cold chain items, such as perishable foods,…
Air freight rates are continuing their climb, with the sector enjoying back-to-back monthly increases and year-on-year growth. In Drewry"™s latest East-West Airfreight Price Index, rates were up 1.9% in July, compared with June, and up around 1.5% against July…
