As part of its new brand refresh and marketing campaign, Alaska Airlines has chosen a new advertising agency of record, its first agency change in 20 years.
Passenger traffic across airports owned by Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) saw a 3.2% increase to 6.85 million passengers in January 2016, compared to 6.64 million seen in the year-ago period.
Lufthansa has taken delivery of its second Airbus A320neo in Hamburg. Its first A320neo, which was delivered Jan. 20 with Pratt & Whitney’s PW1100G engines, will keep operating on domestic routes within Germany until its engine issues are resolved, according to Lufthansa chairman and CEO Carsten Spohr.
New Cypriot low-cost carrier (LCC) Cobalt plans to start operations at the end of March, once its air operator’s certificate (AOC) is finalized, according to CEO Andrew Pyne.
Gulf low-cost carrier (LCC) Air Arabia earned net profits of AED 530 million ($144 million) in 2015, down on the previous year’s figure of AED 566 million.
JetBlue Airways has established a Northern California-based venture capital unit—JetBlue Technology Ventures—to invest in, incubate and partner with early stage technology startups in travel and hospitality.
Virgin Australia reported an A$62.5 million ($43.8 million) net profit for the six months through Dec. 31, 2015, representing a turnaround from an A$47.8 million loss a year earlier.
Low-cost carrier (LCC) Norwegian edged back into the black in 2015, recording a full-year profit of NOK246.2 million ($28.7 million), reversed from a loss of NOK 1.07 billion in 2014.
Finland flag carrier Finnair has reported a full-year net income of €89.7 million ($100.7 million) for 2015, reversed from a €82.5 million loss in the year-ago period.
The latest US Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption figures - for December 2015 and comparative prior months and years - organized by domestic, international and system totals.
As recently as eight years ago, only one airline flew between Los Angeles and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) or Qatar—but this summer, three carriers will fly four daily flights.
Dubai-based low-cost carrier (LCC) flydubai posted AED100.7 million ($27.4 million) net income for 2015, down 59.7% from its AED250 million net result in 2014.
193 firearms were discovered at US airports in January 2016, up 11.6% year-over-year, as detailed in Total TSA Gun Catches for January 2016 (loaded or unloaded firearms discovered at TSA checkpoints at airports across the US).
Spirit Airlines’ 2015 net profit of $317.2 million was up 40.7% over net income of $225.5 million in 2014, but the ultra low-cost carrier’s (ULCC) new CEO acknowledges that operational performance needs to improve.
