Worldwide international-passenger traffic improved in July, rising 6.8% year-over (YOY), up from June’s 3% YOY growth, according to IATA’s July Premium Traffic Monitor.
Aeromexico is looking to upgauge its fleet with newer aircraft in the coming years, the airline’s Senior Vice-President Global Sales Jorge Goytortua has said.
In an effort to further increase its share of U.S-originating connecting traffic, Air Canada will offer free one-week stopovers in Toronto to U.S. customers bound for Europe or Asia.
Ryanair will add new routes at both its Belgium bases—Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL) and Brussels Airport (BRU) and—in the IATA 2016 summer schedule, the airline CEO has said.
At least part of the Chinese orders for 300 Boeing aircraft announced on Sept. 23 are not new, and instead have been kept under wraps until now to create an impact during President Xi Jinping’s visit to the U.S.
Shifting airline strategies rooted in upgauging and slow growth are changing how U.S. airlines evaluate adding new service, and those affected most—small communities—should alter their views to maximize diminishing opportunities, a new report suggests.
Virgin Australia and Qantas are involved in a regulatory wrangle over Virgin’s application to serve international markets with its Tigerair LCC subsidiary.
Virgin America is once again testing the market for premium-cabin upgrades, this time by entering into a partnership with a mobile phone application called SeatBoost.
United Airlines said on Sept. 22 that it plans to be the first airline to fly between the U.S. and Xi’an, China, and is proposing a three-times-weekly service from San Francisco beginning in May, pending regulatory approval.
Spanish LCC Vueling, an International Airlines Group (IAG) subsidiary, will open a base at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) in May 2016 with two 180-seat Airbus A320 aircraft.
A series of strikes by customs and border control workers are causing disruption for travelers at Australian airports this week, as the standoff over a new contract escalates.
Singapore’s competition watchdog has approved a partnership between LCCs Tigerair and Cebu Pacific in the Philippines-Singapore market, with the caveat that the two airlines agree to exclude certain routes they dominate.
Low-cost carriers in Mexico are already outpacing legacy airlines, but want to grow the overall market by enticing bus passengers to fly and save time, at competitive fares.
Among Chinese carriers, Hainan Airlines is the most eager to try long, thin international routes. The government has decided the airline has the most use for the A330s in a bulk order placed in June.
Southwest Airlines will hedge 65% of its fuel in the third quarter and as of now has about 40% of its fuel needs for 2016 hedged, a higher percentage than most of its peers in today’s low-fuel-price climate.
Aeromexico has significantly boosted connecting traffic over the last year-and-a-half at its two main hub cities of Mexico City and Monterrey as it focuses on upgauging its fleet and growing international capacity.
Spirit AeroSystems’ largest union says it has been notified that negotiations between the company and Onex and Advanced Integration Technology for the purchase of its fabrication and machining division were ending.
