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 […]
Laptop ban, Brexit implications to affect Mideast airlines "“IATA
Middle East airlines witnessed a 9.5 percent demand increase, but the laptop ban and the implications of Brexit are expected to weigh on further growth through 2017, said the International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Sunday. IATA said, globally, the underlying growth rate was estimated at 8.6 percent, just under January"™s increase of 8.9 percent. […]
ALTA TRAFFIC REPORT FEBRUARY 2017
"‹"‹ "‹ The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) announced today that Latin America and Caribbean airlines carried 12 million passengers in February, up 8.2% from the previous year, excluding domestic traffic in Brazil, marking the 66th consecutive month of passenger traffic growth for Latin America and Caribbean airlines. Traffic (RPK) grew 8.4% […]
Austrian Airlines Launches New Service to Los Angeles
Occasion marks the airline"™s first direct flights between the U.S west coast and Vienna, Austria Today, Austrian Airlines began its new, non-stop service between Vienna, Austria and Los Angeles, California. Flight OS 081 departed from Vienna (VIE) at 10:03 a.m. local time, and is scheduled to arrive at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) at 1:20 […]
