Star Alliance wants to add budget carriers as members airlines
Star Alliance is seeking to expand its network. The global partnership of airlines would like to add more low-cost budget carriers to the mix. The move would reflect the growing trend among airline customers to choose low-cost carriers when booking tickets. Star Alliance would be in a position to provide budget travelers with more benefits […]
Airlines Reporting Corporation and British Airways successfully test enhanced settlement
Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC) is pleased to announce the successful testing and implementation of enhancements to its settlement platform, initially announced late last year. In October, ARC began the testing process with airline partner British Airways to ensure the functionality and flexibility of these enhancements. As a result of this collaboration, ARC"™s settlement platform is […]
Budget Flying"™s Continues to Change Airline Industry
Despite all the technological advances in the recent decades one thing has remained unchanged–it still takes six hours to fly from the East Coast to the West Coast, three hours to fly to Miami, and half a day to fly to Israel. While, flight times haven"™t changed, the quality of service consumer"™ experience is undergoing […]
Airline stocks take off after domestic air traffic grows 20% in January
Stocks of aviation companies took off on Monday as investors reacted to strong growth in air traffic for January. Jet Airways, SpiceJet and InterGlobe Aviation (IndiGo) rose up to 5 percent on the back of this development. Domestic air traffic grew 20 per cent in January, with airlines ferrying more than 1.14 crore passengers, according […]
Falkland Islands issues RFP for added Latam connectivity
The Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas is set to see increased connectivity with the Argentine mainland after airlines from Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay were courted over their interest in developing a service to their respective countries albeit with a stopover in Argentina. A Falklands government statement issued last week said a letter that had been jointly […]
Air Canada announces Jon Turner as vice-president of maintenance
Air Canada president and chief executive officer Calin Rovinescu has announced the appointment of Jon Turner as vice-president, Maintenance. Turner began his career at Air Canada in 1980 and held a wide-range of critical operational positions with the company. From 1997 to 2004, as general manager, Aircraft Programs, he was responsible for all aspects of […]
Lufthansa Group Airlines welcomes 8.7 million passengers on board in January 2018
In January 2018, the airlines of the Lufthansa Group welcomed around 8.7 million passengers. This shows an increase of 10.1 per cent compared to the previous year"™s month. The available seat kilometers were up 8 per cent over the previous year, at the same time sales increased by 7.4 per cent. The seat load factor […]
New, smaller airlines making push to compete in era of consolidation
The four biggest U.S. airlines and their regional partners control about 80% of air travel in the U.S. But is there room in the skies for new competition? Over the past several years, airline mergers have left about 1,000 routes without service, most of them between smaller U.S. cities, according to an analysis by the […]
Trump wants higher TSA fees on airline tickets
President Trump proposed again Monday in his budget blueprint to raise Transportation Security Administration fees on airline tickets, which has been a non-starter in Congress. But TSA technology has been supported by lawmakers, and Trump proposed to invest $71 million in new equipment to make airport screening more effective and faster. Trump proposed to raise […]
LATAM Airlines Group reporta estadísticas operacionales preliminares para enero 2018
LATAM Airlines Group S.A. y sus filiales ("LATAM Airlines Group", "Grupo LATAM Airline" o "la Compañía") (NYSE: LTM / IPSA: LTM) el grupo de aerolíneas líder de Latinoamérica en el transporte de pasajeros y carga, dio a conocer hoy las estadísticas preliminares de tráfico para enero de 2018 comparadas con enero de 2017. El tráfico […]
