Interview with Bill Byrne, Senior Vice President of Global Sales for Aer Lingus
How did the pandemic impact on Aer Lingus and what lessons were learned? After a challenging 20 months, we are happy to be in a position again to reconnect friends and family, businesses and colleagues on both sides of the Atlantic, and across Europe. Our ambitious schedule for Summer 2022 reflects our goal to build […]
Delta Air Lines ramps up leisure routes
Delta Air Lines announced a series of new routes and expanded frequencies to domestic beach and mountain destinations, as US carriers prepare for an expected leisure travel surge. The new and expanded services feature a series of US western mountain destinations including Bozeman (BZN), Glacier Park (FCA) and Missoula (MSO) in Montana; Fresno (FAT) in […]
Passenger Recovery Disappoints in October
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that the recovery of passenger demand continued to be disappointingly slow in October. Total demand (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) was down 70.6% compared to October 2019. This was just a modest improvement from the 72.2% year-to-year decline recorded in September. Capacity was down 59.9% compared […]
Southwest Airlines’ planes are less than 20% full because of COVID-19 and leaders say more cuts are coming
Southwest Airlines leaders painted an increasingly bleak picture of the airline’s situation in messages to employees Monday, describing planes that are only 20% full, an upcoming voluntary leave program and a need for “billions of dollars of immediate liquidity within weeks.” The messages from leaders, including CEO Gary Kelly, said the company would cut another […]
Outrage in the skies: Are airline passengers getting more unruly?
Air travel can be hard work, whether it’s navigating super-long security lines, losing the seat lottery and ending up jammed in the middle of the row, or finding yourself on a plane grounded on the runway, delayed and unmoving for the foreseeable future. In these stress-inducing scenarios, most of us might plug in our headphones […]
Spirit Airlines Aims to Maximize Comfort and Legroom with Brand New Seats
Spirit Airlines has just announced the latest facet of its “Invest in the Guest” brand commitment by unveiling plans for new, more comfortable jet cabin seating that will maximize useable legroom. The announcement was made onstage at the Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) EXPO. Spirit Airlines officials indicated that the carrier will share its plans […]
Spanish Airline Evelop! Will Use Modern Plane Fly to Cuba
The Spanish airline EVELOP! will soon start using the newly manufactured Airbus A350-900 on its flights to Cuba, beginning in May. The aircraft will transfer travelers who, from Spain, wish to visit the Caribbean, in particular the wonderful destination Cuba, according to information disclosed on the website of the Onlinetours agency. On Next May 5, […]
Emirates, flydubai expand strategic partnership
Dubai-based airlines Emirates and flydubai are expecting to build their combined networks to 240 destinations by 2022, up from 216, further building the strategic partnership they started in October 2017. In 2018, the two airlines jointly carried 3.29 million passengers on codeshare flights across 84 destinations. “Through the codeshare partnership, Emirates customers can access 67 […]
The Airline with the Most Legroom Is This Little-Known Carrier
Wondering what"™s the airline with the most legroom? Seat pitch, the distance from any point on an airline seat to the corresponding point of the seat in the next row, is the most reliable measure of total front-to-rear seat space, and therefore legroom. These days, the average economy seat pitch is 30 to 31 inches […]
