Air Canada rouge, the Montreal-based carrier’s new low-cost international subsidiary airline, launched operations Monday with an Airbus A319 flight from Toronto to Kingston, Jamaica.
Finnair—which will formally join the transatlantic joint venture (JV) between American Airlines, British Airways and Iberia on Tuesday—is seeking approval to join British Airways and Japan Airlines’ (JAL) Europe-Japan JV.
EasyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou will oppose the UK budget carrier’s plans to acquire up to 235 A320s during an extraordinary general meeting July 11.
Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker was holding court with a group of reporters in a New York hotel meeting room following the official announcement that his carrier would be joining the oneworld airline alliance. “Things are changing in the Middle East and in the global aviation industry,” he said. “When you cannot defeat your competitors, you join them.”
