United Airlines social media disaster shows it’s time for brands to think beyond the office
United Airlines inadvertently entered a public relations storm on Twitter this week that few companies could have come out of unscathed. People were enraged about passenger dress standards and the airline was left trying to pick up the pieces with its pants down. In case you didn’t hear about it, United was accused of not […]
IATA abre nuevo Centro de Entrenamiento en Panamá
Recientemente, la Asociación de Transporte Aéreo Internacional, (IATA, por sus siglas en inglés) inauguró su nuevo Centro de Entrenamiento en Ciudad de Panamá. Ubicado en la ciudad que cuenta con la mayor conectividad aérea de la región, el centro ofrece acceso conveniente a participantes desde cualquier punto de Las Américas para aprovechar los cursos de […]
Richard Branson pens emotional farewell to Virgin America
Last week, Alaska Airlines announced it would be retiring the Virgin America name in 2019 after purchasing the airline in April 2016 for $3.4 billion (US $2.6 billion). The announcement has lead to an emotional response from Virgin Group founder, Sir Richard Branson, who penned a farewell to the airline on his company’s blog. The […]
Spirit "˜pledges"™ 2017 deliveries to bank market
Spirit Airlines has "pledged" all of its 2017 deliveries to the commercial bank market for financing, says chief financial officer Ted Christie. "For 2017, we have pledged all of our aircraft already to the private bank market," he said at the JP Morgan aviation, transportation and industrials conference on 15 March. Christie adds that both […]
FAA Forecasts Continued Growth in Air Travel
The FAA today released its annual Aerospace Forecast Report Fiscal Years 2017 to 2037, which projects sustained and continued growth in nearly every aspect of air transportation from general aviation private flying to large commercial airline passenger levels. In commercial air travel, Revenue Passenger Miles (RPMs) are considered the benchmark for measuring aviation growth. An […]
DOT postpones airline reports on bags, wheelchairs
Airlines will have an extra year to report more about mishandled bags and wheelchairs, after the Transportation Department delayed the start of a rule that was announced as "final" in October. The rule published in the final months of the Obama administration will change how mishandled bags are counted, and require separate reporting for mishandled […]
Etihad comfortably surpasses industry target with a 2.5 per cent fuel efficiency improvement in 2016
Etihad Airways claims to have improved fuel efficiency across all operations by 2.5% in 2016, which represented savings of nearly 190,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions, the equivalent of 1,200 flights between Abu Dhabi and London. The UAE"™s national airline says it is working on several key initiatives to optimise efficiency, both with the aircraft fleet […]
Etihad Airways secures IATA certification for successful implementation of enhanced booking system
Etihad Airways has successfully implemented a new booking standard driven by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) that enhances the level of information flow between travel agents and airline reservation systems. The New Distribution Capability (NDC) booking standard has been made possible following successful testing by Etihad Airways with Sabre Airline Solutions in partnership with […]
IATA Releases 2016 Airline Safety Performance
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for the 2016 safety performance of the commercial airline industry. The all accident rate (measured in accidents per 1 million flights) was 1.61, an improvement from 1.79 in 2015. The 2016 major jet accident rate (measured in hull losses per 1 million flights) was 0.39, which was […]
Sabre reporta resultados financieros de 2016
Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), el principal proveedor de tecnología para la industria de viajes, publicó recientemente sus resultados financieros correspondientes al cuarto trimestre de 2016 y a todo el año, lo que también dio la oportunidad a Sean Menke, su nuevo CEO, de compartir con los inversores la visión y las perspectivas de la empresa. […]
