Alaska retires Virgin America flight numbers
The journey of feisty upstart Virgin America ends on April 24 as new owner Alaska Airlines retires the airline"™s flight numbers and transfers all customer functions to its website. Starting on April 25, every check-in will be performed by alaskaair.com as the bigger airline also takes overall customer service and mobile app functions. The Virgin […]
Revealed: America"™s cheapest, most comfortable and best airlines
When it comes to flying, choosing an airline that is comfortable, affordable, and above all else, reliable can be of the utmost importance, whether you are travelling for business or pleasure. With that in mind, personal finance website WalletHub has shared a recent study that outlines the very best airlines in the United States of […]
TripAdvisor Recognizes World’s Best Airlines With 2018 Travelers’ Choice Awards
TripAdvisor®, the travel planning and booking site, today announced the winners of its Travelers’ Choice® awards for airlines, identifying travelers’ favorite carriers around the globe. For 2018, Singapore Airlines was named the number one airline in the world and Southwest Airlines ranked as the best U.S. carrier. Award winners were determined using an algorithm that […]
A Massive Influx of Airline Passengers Is Coming
A study from industry trade group Airlines for America (A4A) revealed a record number of passengers are expected to fly globally on United States airlines between March 1 and April 30. The record-breaking number of 150.7 million would be a four-percent increase from the 145 million passengers who flew in the spring of 2017. Airlines […]
Airlines: A record 151 million passengers will fly this spring
The sky remains the limit for spring travel, with airlines projecting Wednesday another record-setting holiday season with nearly 151 million passengers. The 4% year-over-year gain in travelers during March and April comes on top of a record number of travelers for all of 2017, according to Airlines for America, a trade group representing most of […]
Alaska Airlines takes the top spot in the Points Guy survey of major US carriers
Flying is an emotional experience. Travelers can bond – and break up – with an airline before the first beverage cart rolls down the aisle. Which is why the Points Guy relied on unfeeling numbers, not capricious hearts, to calculate the Best and Worst U.S. Airlines in 2018. «We used data,» not passengers’ opinions, said […]
January Passenger Demand Growth Slows on Temporary Factors
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced global passenger traffic results for January 2018 showing traffic (revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) rose 4.6% compared to January 2017. This was the slowest year-over-year increase in nearly four years, but results were affected by temporary factors including the later timing of the Lunar New Year in 2018 […]
South American Airlines Start Bid for Second Flight to Falkland (Malvinas) Islands
Argentina and United Kingdom"™s governments issued a joint letter to UK embassies in Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay requesting assistance in contacting airlines in their respective countries to invite them to communicate their interest in establishing a new weekly scheduled air service to and from the Falkland Islands. This step is the first towards the […]
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 […]
2017 Marked by Strong Passenger Demand, Record Load Factor
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced global passenger traffic results for 2017 showing that demand (revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) for the year ended 31 December rose 7.6% compared to 2016. This was well above the 10-year average annual growth rate of 5.5%. While the rate of demand growth slowed to 6.2% in December […]
