SAS and Airtours are extending their cooperation on charter and scheduled flights in a new agreement that runs until 2024, starting in the summer of 2021. The value of the contract is more than SEK 800 million (US$97 million) over four years. SAS will initially fly Airtours customers to and from Stockholm and Gothenburg to
Qantas customers can now book seven new domestic routes and travel on more wide-body aircraft between major capital cities to help meet strong demand for domestic travel across Australia. The new routes – Townsville to Adelaide/Melbourne/Sydney, Adelaide to Cairns/Hobart, Sydney-Uluru and Perth-Gold Coast – provide direct connections and reduce travel time for customers. They bring
United Airlines has added further options for customers to take long-awaited summer vacations by adding more than 400 daily flights to its July schedule and increasing service to reopened European destinations. This is United’s largest monthly schedule since before the pandemic. United plans to fly 80% of its U.S. schedule compared to July of 2019
Qantas has released that the Federal Government has revised its anticipated timeline for the completion of Australia’s vaccine rollout to end-2021 and its timeline for significantly reopening its international borders to mid-2022. In light of these two dates, the Qantas Group will adjust its planned international flights from end-October 2021 to late December 2021. (Trans-Tasman
Delta Air Lines, LATAM Airlines Group S.A. and its subsidiary LATAM Airlines Colombia S.A. have received approval of their joint venture without conditions by the Civil Aviation Authority of Colombia (Aeronáutica Civil de Colombia). The Joint venture will improve air connectivity and provide passengers and cargo customers with a seamless travel experience between North and South
Allegiant Air plans to hire 184 pilots in the coming months, a nearly 19% increase to the company’s current roster of approximately 1,000 pilots. The new hires are part of the company’s growth strategy to meet increasing demand for air travel. The first group of pilots will begin training in July, with classes scheduled to
Adelaide will be the home of five Embraer E190 aircraft as Qantas continues to boost domestic flights in response to growing leisure and corporate travel demand. The E190s are 94-seat jets with a five-hour range which are being deployed on Qantas’ network as part of a three-year deal with Alliance Airlines. The deal provides the
Finnish Air Line Pilots’ Association and Service Sector Employers Palta have signed an agreement on a new, 3.5-year collective labor agreement for Finnair pilots. The new CLA is in force until September 30, 2024 and it encompasses several important structural changes that support Finnair’s competitiveness in the fiercely competitive post-pandemic market. These include moving from a service year-based salary structure to a vacancy-based salary structure, and measures enabling balancing the seasonality of
International Airlines Group (IAG) has released that it will commit to powering 10% of its flights with sustainable aviation fuel by 2030. The Group will purchase one million tons of sustainable jet fuel per year enabling it to cut its annual emissions by two million tons by 2030. This equates to removing one million cars
As part of a series of beneficial climate and environmental measure, French MPs have voted to ban all domestic flights in France where trains offer a viable alternative in two and a half hours or less travel time. It is estimated that planes that fly these short-haul routes produce 77-times the volume of CO2 per
