Airlines & Routes

Lufthansa Group has launched a completely contactless way for passengers to report delayed baggage from their mobile device, avoiding long queues at busy baggage service counters or offices. SITA’s initial trials of WorldTracer® Self Service showed that the service has already proved to be popular with travelers, with two-thirds opting to use this service instead

Austrian Airlines will fly to Shanghai again from October 2. After several postponements of the resumption due to the dynamic market situation, the return to China is now fixed. A Boeing 767 will fly from Vienna to Shanghai every Friday. The return flight will take place the following Sunday. Further connections to China are a

Delta Air Lines (Delta) and LATAM Airlines Group S.A. and its affiliates (LATAM) have received regulatory approval for their trans-American Joint Venture Agreement (JVA) from Brazil’s competition authority, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE). The proposed JVA between Delta and LATAM, which was presented to the CADE on July 14, 2020,was approved without conditions,

Qatar Airways will operate four weekly flights to Accra, Ghana via Lagos from September 29, 2020, becoming the fourth new destination launched by the national carrier of the State of Qatar since the start of the pandemic. The Accra service will be operated by the airline’s state-of-the-art Boeing 787 Dreamliner featuring 22 seats in Business

Delta has effectively managed staffing between now and the peak 2021 summer season for most frontline groups. “Avoiding involuntary furloughs in this unprecedented environment is entirely due to the innovation, hard work and shared sacrifice of our people,” CEO Ed Bastian said. “Our teams have done an extraordinary job identifying opportunities to spread work around

JetBlue will launch 24 new routes later this year aimed at immediately generating cash and capturing traffic on a variety of new, nonstop routes, many never flown before by the airline. Each route plays to JetBlue’s strengths in the airline’s focus cities, in Florida, in Latin American and the Caribbean or on cross-country, or transcontinental

Ryanair is closing its base in Düsseldorf. This was announced by the management on September 10, according to the Handelsblatt. Seven jets will be withdrawn, while 200 employees are affected. Ryanair management says the closure is a direct result of Düsseldorf Airport’s refusal to reduce its extremely high charges due to the Covid-19-crisis and a

Icelandair is set to become a new airline partner in easyJet’s unique connections service, Worldwide by easyJet. The partnership with Icelandair is expected to go live in the coming weeks including at its major European airports Paris Charles de Gaulle and Amsterdam Schiphol, with the service due to go live at other airports in the coming