Air France names new leaders as airline looks to end costly turbulence
Air France-KLM named chief financial officer Frederic Gagey as its interim CEO on Tuesday following Jean-Marc Janaillac’s sudden exit in a bitter dispute over salaries in the group’s French wing. Former French minister Anne-Marie Couderc was named non-executive chairman at the French-Dutch group, which has been hit by months of strikes as unions seek a […]
WOW air to start low-cost flights linking India, Europe, North America
WOW air, Iceland"™s low-fare transatlantic airline, on Tuesday announced the launch of its flight operations in India from December 7, 2018, with "˜airfares that will enable everyone to fly"™. The airline said that it will have five direct flights a week between New Delhi and Keflavik airport in Iceland that will connect to multiple destinations […]
Colombia’s Easyfly to launch five new routes in 2018
Colombian regional airline Easyfly will launch five new routes this year as it adds more ATR 42-600s to its fleet, expecting to grow traffic 35% year-over-year in 2018. Easyfly president Alfonso Avila says the airline acquired more of the turboprops as it is well suited to operations and demand in Colombia. The airline transported almost […]
LATAM ‘positive’ on US-Brazil open-skies despite delay
LATAM Airlines Group says it is «positive» on US-Brazil open-skies falling into place, even as it acknowledges that it is still waiting for the deal to progress through government bureaucracy. While Brazil’s congress has cleared the open-skies deal, it has yet to receive presidential endorsement and is not officially ratified. «It’s more of a bureaucratic […]
Airline CEO keynote panel – Challenges and opportunities in the Latin American landscape
At the Aviation Festival Americas 2018 event held in Miami from May 8th to the 9th, international consultant Mr. René Armas Maes moderated the Airline CEO keynote panel focusing on challenges and opportunities in Latin America, a region that is expected to double its passenger traffic by year 2035. In this occasion, Mr. Declan Ryan, […]
Air France-KLM Shares Plunge after CEO Quits amid Ongoing Labor Battle
Air France-KLM shares plunged on Monday after its chief executive pledged to resign because he had failed to quell labor unrest, throwing the company"™s strategy into question. Its stock was down more than 13 percent, and by half since its recent peak in January, before employees at its Air France unit began a series of […]
Airline customer satisfaction is higher than you might think, a survey indicates
The airline industry is one that passengers love to hate. And yet, overall customer satisfaction hit an all-time high in 2017 and declined only slightly in 2018, according to the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index Travel Report, which was released in late April. In the report, Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines and JetBlue received the highest […]
These Are The World’s 20 Busiest International Airline Routes
The world"™s 20 busiest international airline routes includes 14 intra-Asia routes, according to a new report, and only three routes that either start or end in the U.S. and three that touch Europe. Half of the routes can be flown in under two hours (An eleventh takes two hours and four minutes). On ten of […]
Qatar Airways plans domestic airline, unlikely to bid for Air India
Doha-based Qatar Airways (QA) is soon expected to apply for starting a new airline in India, according to a report by The Times of India. The airline, which will be fully owned by Qatar-based entities, is expected to be a full service carrier and will operate on domestic routes, the report suggests. The new airline […]
Airline Fees And Common Sense: Prohibiting Ancillary Charges Would Not Benefit Passengers
While few people like paying the various ancillary fees that most airlines assess in some way these days, virtually no one will like the ultimate outcome if the government were to prohibit or control them, which would be higher overall ticket prices and fewer flights. Fees added onto the actual cost of the ticket are […]
