Airlines Made $4.2 Billion in Baggage Fees Alone Last Year. But Their Profits Still Plunged
Airlines in the United States made more than $4.2 billion in baggage fees, accounting for 2.5% of revenue last year, though the industry still saw overall profits significantly decrease. Baggage fees were the highest area of profit growth, according to a release Tuesday from the Department of Transportation. Baggage-fee profit went up 10% in 2016 […]
A4A airlines will no longer remove boarded passengers from aircraft
All Airlines for America (A4A) member airlines are now committed to not removing a boarded passenger from an aircraft in a bumping situation and all are committed to ensuring crew being transported are booked in advance, A4A president and CEO Nicholas Calio said. Speaking at the IATA Wings of Change conference in Miami, Calio said […]
Global Air Freight Demand Increases 14% in March
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released March 2017 demand growth results for global air freight markets showing a 14% expansion measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs) compared to the same period last year. This was the fastest pace of growth recorded since October 2010. Freight capacity, measured in available freight tonne kilometers (AFTKs), grew […]
Airbus, Boeing Support New Standards for GADSS
During the opening joint session of the 2017 Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee (AEEC) and Avionics Maintenance Committee (AMC) general session, representatives from the world"™s two biggest commercial airplane manufacturers, Airbus and Boeing, provided an overview of the work they feel is necessary to standardize onboard aircraft hardware necessary to support the International Civil Aviation Org.’s […]
CM Airlines implementa la solución de servicio de pasajeros Zenith® (PSS) de TTI
CM Airlines, de Honduras, anuncia su migración al sistema de servicio de pasajeros Zenith® (PSS) de TTI (Travel Technology Interactive) para administrar su inventario, tarifas, canales de ventas y DCS (sistema de control de salida). Airlines, a través de Zenith®, también eligió conectarse a los GDS Amadeus y Sabre como parte de su estrategia de […]
American Airlines is offering its pilots and flight attendants a raise
Hoping to satisfy employees’ demands to close the big gap between their salaries and what counterparts make at Delta and United, American is giving an 8% raise to pilots and a 5% increase to flight attendants. «As our industry has rapidly evolved and pay increases at other airlines have accelerated, some of our colleagues have […]
American Airlines Going "˜Back to Basics"™ To Prep For Big Data
As airlines and MRO providers embrace data analytics to help drive efficiencies, their organizations must first ensure they have basic protocols in place to properly navigate what is proving to be a complex and evolving path. American Airlines is tackling this by going "back to the basics," Becky McCarty, the airline"™s manager-data management for tech […]
Airlines should be allowed to overbook seats: IATA
Carriers should be permitted to continue with the overbooking practice as seats in a flight are a time sensitive and "perishable" product, global airlines body IATA said today. Against the backdrop of American carrier United Airlines forcibly evicting a passenger recently "” an incident that sparked a global outrage "” the International Air Transport Association"™s […]
Here are the 12 best airlines in America
On Monday, Wichita State University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University released their annual Airline Quality Ratings (AQR) report. The study evaluates the performance of America’s 12 largest airlines based on a series of factors including on-time performance, denied boardings, mishandled baggage, and customer complaints. According to the study, the airline industry, as a whole, has shown […]
Lufthansa Group welcomes nearly 10 million passengers on board in March 2017
Increase of around 14% more passengers than the previous year Seat load factor of 77.2% is a 0.8-percentage-point improvement from March 2016 Pricing environment (excluding currency) developed slightly positive in March The airlines of the Lufthansa Group transported some9.6 million passengers in March, 14% more than the same period last year, although the popular Easter […]
