Frontier plans domestic growth
Denver-based Frontier is expanding its domestic network by launching three new routes and adding frequencies on seven others. The airline plans to boost capacity to popular leisure destinations during the winter 2020-21 season, with particular focus on destinations in Florida. From Providence’s TF Green Airport (PVD), the LCC is adding a 5X-weekly route to Miami […]
UK government announces creation of Jet Zero Council
During a daily UK government coronavirus briefing on 12 June 2020, the UK’s Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, announced the creation of the Jet Zero Council – a group that will be responsible for making net-zero carbon emissions a reality for all flights in the future. During the briefing, Shapps said: “The challenge is to make […]
JetBlue adding 30 domestic routes, cites leisure travel upswing
JetBlue Airways will add 30 new routes to its domestic network over the next few months, in a bid to capitalize on a modest upswing in leisure travel demand. The new routes are largely focused on connecting passengers from the New York-area to beach and outdoor leisure destinations in Florida and the Western US. They […]
Flight radar reveals how Europe’s skies are getting BUSIER with hundreds of flights jetting across the continent
New satellite images reveal the boom in air travel over Europe today as hundreds of planes take to the skies in response to loosening coronavirus restrictions. Live data recorded more than a thousand planes over the continent this afternoon – compared with just a few hundred at the height of the pandemic in April. It […]
Delta CEO Explains Why Travelers Can Fly With Confidence
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian believes travelers can «fly with confidence» right now. In a recent appearance on the «Conversations with Mike Milken» podcast, Bastian outlined all of the ways that the airline is working to ensure passenger safety amid the coronavirus pandemic. «In my opinion, consumers can fly with confidence and safety today,» […]
Latin America Must Restart Air Travel by July to Avoid Bankruptcies: Trade Group
Latin American countries should quicken steps for airlines to renew domestic flights no later than July before more companies are forced to declare bankruptcy or close, a high-ranking official of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on Thursday. The trade group estimated losses for airlines in Latin America at $4 billion this year, with […]
GOL to restore 20% of network
Brazil’s largest domestic airline GOL Linhas Aéreas plans to add additional capacity to its network in June, as well as reopening five more bases. The carrier operated 13 aircraft during May, with flight operations down by about 93% on the same month a year ago. However, there has been a steady increase in activity in […]
Delta exits low demand routes from 11 airports
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines has confirmed plans to halt service to 11 mid-sized US cities as part of efforts to lower costs and mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Flights from the 11 airports, which make up approximately 5% of the domestic destinations Delta serves, will cease from July 8. The US Transportation Department […]
China’s recovery continues as daily passengers top 1 million
The number of daily passengers carried by airlines in China topped the 1 million mark on June 5—the first time in four months the figure has been achieved. According to figures released by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), the total number of passengers flying during the day was 1.04 million. This is the […]
Aerodom: airlines will operate in the DR “as soon as possible”
Álvaro Leite, commercial director of Dominican Airports Siglo XXI ( Aerodom ), said that he hopes that the country’s borders will be reopened so that the airlines restart their operations in the airports operated by the company with a lower initial offer that will grow to adapt to demand over the course of the next […]
