Barbados’s New York-Round JetBlue Flights
Barbados is getting a boost from New York City-based airline JetBlue. JetBlue is expanding its weekly nonstop Saturday service from Newark Liberty to Barbados to year-round service, Caribbean Journal has learned. The extension of service will go into effect on May 4, 2019. “The extension of our popular seasonal, weekly Barbados service to year-round weekly […]
Delta Is Launching a New Route to Puerto Rico
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 International Airport, with service set to begin Dec. 21. The new route is part of a […]
Delta Most Preferred North American Airline by Chinese Travelers
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 the fifth consecutive year,” said Wong Hong, Delta’s President – Greater China and Singapore. “This recognition […]
SITA report sees technology improving bag handling numbers
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 report, released April 24. More bags are being checked in, but mishandled rates are remaining stable, […]
Avianca chief to depart airline next week
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 after just three years in the role. Rincon plans to pursue other opportunities, says Avianca chairman […]
Jet Airways will do everything to revive airline, CEO says: ET Now
India’s Jet Airways is constantly engaging with the government and lenders for a resolution of the current debt crisis and will not leave any stone unturned to revive the airline, its chief executive officer Vinay Dube told television channel ET Now in an interview. Once India’s largest private airline, Jet halted all flight operations indefinitely […]
Kenya Airways, Delta codeshare to open 15 North American routes
Kenya Airways and Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines have signed a codeshare agreement that will open connectivity to 11 US and four Canadian cities. Both airlines are SkyTeam alliance members. Kenya Airways Group managing director and CEO Sebastian Mikosz said the partnership will “open up opportunities for customers to access more destinations in North America through […]
Cape Air’s New Caribbean Push Begins in Culebra and Virgin Gorda
For many destinations in the Caribbean, small regional airlines are a life blood — and for two decades, Cape Air has been just that for so many islands. Now, Cape Air has officially relaunched two important routes from San Juan, with flights to Puerto Rico’s island of Culebra and to Virgin Gorda in the British […]
Renowned Companies Interested in Airport Hub in Bolivia
The seven companies interested in building the hub of the Viru Viru International Airport in Santa Cruz city, Bolivia, are Friday among the 14 best in the world in this sector. The Minister of Development Planning, Mariana Prado, reported that the project to expand the air terminal, in addition to building a larger runway for […]
SpiceJet joins IATA
SpiceJet has joined the International Air Transport Association (IATA), it has been announced. In December 2018, IATA Director General and CEO Alexandre de Juniac told reporters in India that the carrier had applied for IATA membership. The airline is the first Indian low-cost carrier to join the trade association representing more than 290 airlines. IATA […]
