Woman gets entire plane to herself after airline booking error
For one woman in Washington DC, flights this year can only be second-rated in terms of experience after a booking error left her with an entire plane all to herself last weekend. The woman, identified only as Beth, uploaded a photo of herself on the empty plane from Rochester, New York, to Ronald Reagan International […]
Airline safety best on record in 2017: Trump claims credit, but experts cite years of efforts
President Trump took credit Tuesday for commercial aviation’s remarkable safety record last year. But safety experts say the lack of fatal crashes among U.S. passenger airlines resulted from years of effort to improve technology and training. Trump tweeted there were "Zero deaths in 2017" for "the best and safety years on record" for "commercial aviation," […]
Lufthansa Prepares for Low-Cost Competition After a Banner 2017
Travelers flying between Germany"™s political and financial capitals this fall have been in for an occasional surprise: boarding a humpbacked 747 jumbo jet for the one-hour hop from Berlin to Frankfurt. While the massive planes are typically reserved for long-haul flights to, say, Tokyo, Denver, or Rio de Janeiro, Deutsche Lufthansa AG trotted out its […]
Ryanair applies for UK licence as airline braces for hard Brexit
Ryanair has applied for a British air operating licence to ensure its domestic UK routes can keep flying after Brexit. The Irish airline has repeatedly warned that flights could be grounded after March 2019 unless a new framework for aviation is agreed between Britain and the EU. A British licence would guarantee the airline could […]
Ecuador"™s President Moreno Moves to Deregulate the Airline Industry
Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno has signed a decree that moves towards deregulating the airline industry in the Andean nation. The decree, published on the presidency"™s official website, will allow bilateral civil air transport agreements which will lead to liberalization of the market. The objective is to "promote Latin American integration and promote a strategic insertion […]
New International Network Boosts Avianca Brasil"™s Growth
Having averaged traffic growth of about 30 percent each year over the first six years of its existence, Avianca Brasil expects to end 2017 "“ its seventh year of operations "“ by posting a growth rate of approximately 25 per cent for the 12 months. Interviewed in New York following the December 15 launch of […]
Best & Worst Of Aviation 2017: Airlines And Alliances
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 this segment. To quickly recap if you didn"™t read Part 1, I have covered aviation here […]
States urge Trump administration to adopt new airline baggage fee rules
A group of 16 state attorneys general on Tuesday urged the Trump administration to reverse a decision to abandon a proposed regulation that would have required airlines and third party booking companies to prominently disclose baggage and other fees. The U.S. Transportation Department on Dec. 7 said it was abandoning proposals to collect detailed information […]
Volaris Obtains Foreign Air Carrier Permit in the United States of America for its Costa Rican Operations
Volaris* (NYSE:VLRS)(BMV:VOLAR) the ultra-low-cost airline serving Mexico, the United States and Central America, announced today that its affiliate, Vuela Aviación, S.A., was awarded by the Department of Transportation of the United States of America a Foreign Air Carrier Permit to provide: 1) Foreign scheduled transportation of persons, property, and mail from points behind Costa Rica […]
Las Vegas to Welcome Nonstop Service from Brazil with LATAM Airlines Group
LATAM Airlines Group, the leading airline group in South America, on Dec. 18, announced that its Brazilian affiliate, LATAM Airlines Brazil, will begin nonstop seasonal service to Las Vegas in June 2018, marking the first scheduled nonstop flight to Las Vegas from Brazil. Beginning June 21, the route will depart Sao Paulo every Monday, Thursday […]
