The Air Line Pilots Association has filed complaints with the U.S. DOT against two regional airlines’ proposals intended to help remedy what the carriers describe as a national shortage of qualified pilots.
The CEO of Frontier Airlines wrote a letter to the CEO of Spirit Airlines urging another delay for their planned merger vote, asserting that more time is needed to ensure the deal has support from a sufficient number of large shareholders.
Central and Eastern European LCC Wizz Air has taken a financial battering in its fiscal 2023 first quarter, partly driven by earlier changes to its hedging policies, which have since been reversed.
With COVID-19 restrictions impeding travel to Japan, the country’s airlines are focusing more heavily on transit traffic at their Tokyo hubs to rebuild international operations.
All Nippon Airways is converting two of its Boeing 777X orders to freighters, and the carrier has also finalized a previously-announced order for 737 MAXs.
While the continuing appeal of package holidays offers UK leisure airline Jet2.com a promising future, much depends on other parts of the airline eco-system improving their performance.
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has received approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York for all of its “first day” motions as part of the company’s voluntary Chapter 11 process in the U.S.
Air Serbia is protesting that capacity restrictions at Amsterdam Schiphol are causing “great financial and reputational damage” by forcing the airline to limit the number of passengers it can carry from Amsterdam to its home hub Belgrade.
European airlines are again reducing their flight schedules in the face of staff shortages, rising COVID-19 infections and capacity shortfalls in areas such as air traffic control.
The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) has awarded Spirit Airlines 16 peak-hour slots at Newark Liberty Airport (EWR), capping off a nearly three-year contest to determine the fate of the vacant slots at the crowded New York metropolitan area airport.
Brazilian airlines deployed 6% more capacity in the country’s domestic market in May compared to the same period in 2019, according to the latest data from the country’s civil aviation agency ANAC.
Singapore Airlines expects to reach 81% of pre-pandemic capacity by the end of the year as it piles on additional frequencies to India and Japan to meet strong demand.
The big three Chinese airlines' order for a combined 292 narrowbodies comes after the backlog of deliveries to the country had been getting smaller and smaller.
As the peak summer season gets underway, airlines in Europe are facing more disruption as strikes in some countries add to existing staff shortages and governments look for ways to better manage the crisis.
