Will Hurricane Harvey impact your flight? Airlines offering re-bookings
Ahead of Hurricane Harvey’s anticipated landfall on the Gulf coast, several airlines are working with customers to rebook travel to and from airports throughout the region: AMERICAN AIRLINES will work with customers traveling to or from Austin, Beaumont, Brownsville, College Station, Corpus Christi, Harlingen, Houston, Lake Charles, McAllen or San Antonio, to re-book travel free […]
Vietjet Air Gets Rid of Bikini-Wearing Attendants for Indonesia Flights
Vietjet Air, the airline that skyrocketed to fame for featuring bikini-clad stewardesses and making it"™s founder Vietnam"™s first female billionaire, has officially announced its plan to serve flights to Indonesia without the revealing and popular bikini gimmick. According to deputy director for commercial affairs, Jay L. Lingeswara, the bikini-wearing attendants are only featured during specific […]
Low-cost international airline WOW Air coming to CVG
The Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport is adding a new airline, the airport said Tuesday. WOW Air will begin operating at CVG in May 2018. The low-cost international airline offers one-way flights to Iceland starting at $99 and other international destinations for $149. Before today, many had never even heard of Wow Airlines. «They will begin […]
KLM Becomes First Non-Chinese Airline to Accept WeChat Pay
Dutch airline KLM has begun allowing Chinese passengers to use WeChat Pay to buy airfare. It starting doing so quietly on Monday, without advertising the new functionality, or even sending a press release. And yet, in the last few days, the airline estimated 20 to 30 percent of its Chinese customers used WeChat Pay for […]
American Airlines to expand transatlantic service to Shannon Airport
SHANNON Airport has welcomed the "˜significant"™ decision by American Airlines to increase its transatlantic service, offering a boost to the airport and region of upwards of 7,000 passengers next year. American has announced that it is to expand its Shannon to Philadelphia service in 2018, as the airline continues to build on the "growing demand […]
American Airlines to begin nonstop flights from PHL to Budapest and Prague and restore a daily nonstop flight to Zurich
American Airlines will begin nonstop flights to Budapest and to Prague in May from Philadelphia. American will also bring back a daily nonstop flight to Zurich, Switzerland, which had ended last year. The service to three European cities was seen as affirming American"™s commitment to Philadelphia as a trans-Atlantic gateway. "By adding these new destinations, […]
Frontier Airlines Launches Several New Routes
On Wednesday, Frontier Airlines has announced the start of service between Long Island MacArthur Airport (ISP) in New York and Orlando, Florida (MCO). Thew news comes just two days after commencing flights from Las Vegas, Nevada, Raleigh, North Carolina and Providence, Rhode Island to Denver, Colorado and Orlando, Florida. Flights between Las Vegas and Miami […]
Is Delta ‘The Best Positioned’ Airline?
Bernstein analyst David Vernon said on Tuesday that Delta Air Lines ( DAL) is the best-positioned airline to take advantage of industry trends related to charging more for flights, as airport capacity becomes constrained and operating costs increase. «DAL is best positioned to over-earn at capacity constrained airports. Marrying data on yields, airport costs, and […]
Ryanair calls for two-drink maximum at airports
yanair has waded into a debate on how to curb drunken behaviour on flights by suggesting passengers should be limited to only buying two drinks each at the airport. The budget carrier says the problem passengers are those who "preload" in the departure lounge rather than those who drink once onboard flights, in response to […]
Aer Lingus announces big increase in winter flights
Aer Lingus has unveiled what it says is its largest ever winter flights schedule, including 350 extra transatlantic flights where capacity will grow by 13pc. This is aided by the introduction of a new Airbus A330-300, which will be in operation for the full 2017/18 winter season. This is aided by the introduction of a […]
