Cathay and Air NZ extend alliance for five more years
Cathay Pacific and Air New Zealand have received approval to extend their network joint venture for services between Hong Kong and New Zealand until the end of October 2024. The alliance between the two carriers commenced in 2013, which saw Air NZ withdrawing its Hong Kong-London flights, but has also led to Cathay starting seasonal […]
Emirates SkyCargo looks to diversification and digitisation
Product diversification, digitisation of the air cargo supply chain and an ambition to build an e-commerce hub in the Middle East are just three of the projects under way at Emirates SkyCargo. The Dubai-based airfreight giant will also monitor demand for its freighter capacity in these turbulent times for the world economy, but the carrier […]
Kjos steps down as Norwegian chief
Norwegian’s long-standing chief executive Bjorn Kjos is leaving his position today and will be replaced on an interim basis by chief financial officer Geir Karlsen. Kjos is one of the founders of Norwegian and has served as its chief executive for 17 years. During this time it has grown from a small regional Norwegian carrier […]
JetBlue Boosting Grenada Flights for Summer
It just got even easier to get to the Caribbean’s Spice Isle. New York City-based carrier JetBlue has launched a flight expansion to Grenada for the summer season, highlighted by relaunched daily flight service to the island. The expanded service, which launched last week, is operating every day from New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport […]
Spanish LCC Volotea opens Italy base at Cagliari
Spanish LCC Volotea has opened a new base in Italy at Cagliari Elmas Airport, where it has two Airbus A319s. Cagliari, located on the Italian island Sardinia, is the carrier’s 13th base, the fifth in Italy, from where it operates 15 routes. Since Volotea began operations in Cagliari in 2012, the number of passengers carried […]
Ryanair opens second French base
Ireland-based LCC Ryanair has opened its second base in France, at Bordeaux; it already has one at Marseilles. The carrier intends to station three Boeing 737-800s at the southwest French airport, from which it will serve 37 routes in 14 countries with up to 86 weekly flights. The airline anticipates the new arrangement will bring […]
JetBlue revises 2Q guidance on strong revenue trends
JetBlue Airways increased the bottom end of its projected second-quarter (2Q) unit revenue guidance, aligning with both the carrier’s short-term outlook of an increasing revenue environment and bigger-picture trends that show strong demand and pricing. The New York-based carrier now sees a year-over-year RASM increase of 2%-4% in the quarter, up from the 1%-4% range […]
La Compagnie to show off A321neo at Paris air show
All-premium transatlantic carrier La Compagnie is to display its Airbus A321neo during the upcoming Paris air show. La Compagnie is formally putting its initial aircraft (F-HBUZ) into service on the route between Paris Orly and Newark on 6 June. The CFM International Leap-1A-powered aircraft, leased from GECAS, has been configured with 76 lie-flat seats. Airbus […]
EgyptAir plans Washington increase as it eyes Chicago
EgyptAir plans to add frequencies on its new service to Washington Dulles airport in the «near future» as part of a larger push into North America. The Star Alliance carrier began three-times weekly service to Dulles from its Cairo base with a Boeing 787-9 today. Washington, DC is EgyptAir’s second US destination after New York, […]
Korean Air vows to go after LCC competition
Korean Air chairman and chief executive Walter Cho has vowed to act more aggressively against the growing competition from low-cost carriers in its home market. Speaking during a press conference at the IATA Annual General Meeting, he says that the carrier has been watching the rise of LCCs passively, but that will now change. “In […]
