Airlines & Lessors

The U.S. DOT has fined two foreign airlines a total of $825,000 for flying in prohibited airspace while carrying U.S. airline codeshare flight designators.

LCC EasyJet is launching 27 new routes from Italy, offering more than 1.5 million extra seats in the coming 2025 summer season.

Qantas said its network was not significantly affected by a strike by some of its engineers on Dec. 13, and the carrier has measures in place to avoid disruption from more strikes.

The plan has been met with “incomprehension” by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, whose hub is at the airport.

While air taxi frontrunners Joby and Archer plan to operate their own airlines in the U.S., a small handful of operators are eager to get in on the action as soon as possible.

Avelo Commercial Head Trevor Yealy told Aviation Week the U.S. carrier is "absolutely, unequivocally evaluating more markets."

The latest airline route news, featuring network changes, schedule alterations, codeshares and interline agreements.

Two priorities should remain as the administrations transition, Southwest CEO Bob Jordan stressed: modernizing the ATC system and getting it fully staffed.

Russia’s Aeroflot does not expect to receive its first MC-21 passenger airliners until 2026, a company official says.

Aircraft lessors have effectively weathered a string of exogenous shocks over the past years and are in a strong position heading into 2025, Fitch Ratings said.

The announcement coincided with the airline’s first direct flight from Paris to New Caledonia’s capital Noumea, via Bangkok.

Korean Air has finalized its acquisition of Asiana Airlines, allowing it to begin the next steps in merging the two carriers.

U.S. regional carrier CommuteAir has bolstered the resilience of its charter-dedicated Embraer 170 through signing up for Brazilian OEM’s Exchange Plus Program.

Willie Walsh’s original contract would have ended in 2025 but was extended by two years; he will be 65 by the time of IATA’s 2027 annual general assembly.

Avianca CEO Frederico Pedreira says the Colombian carrier is close to adding a new destination in the southeast U.S.

All the important data related to Philippine Airlines in recent years.

Haiti’s largest airport has reopened for commercial flights, one month after gunfire struck several aircraft operated by U.S. airlines serving Port-au-Prince.

Building on a decade of its Mint business class, JetBlue Airways is preparing to launch a domestic first-class product.

Australian financial regulators are suing bankrupt airline Rex and four of its directors alleging the carrier filed misleading stock market financial updates.

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has used a Taxibot towing vehicle to tow a Boeing 737 from the gate, reducing emissions of CO2, NOx and ultra-fine particles.

IATA sees cargo demand growth at an all-time high for 2024, having grown nearly 12% year-over-year but warns of possible headwinds from threatened U.S. tariffs.

Alaska Air Group expects a commercial strategy and synergies from its merger with Hawaiian Airlines to drive $1 billion of incremental profit by 2027.

Brazilian operator GOL aims to reach pre-pandemic levels of domestic capacity in 2026 as the carrier works to exit bankruptcy protection next year.

The company handed over 13 aircraft in November—all from pre-strike inventory.

Nigerian carrier Ibom Air is planning to add two or three new Central African destinations in 2025.