One day after United Airlines announced its plans to retire its Boeing 747s, Delta Air Lines has announced that it is preparing to say goodbye to its own fleet of Boeing 747s later this year. No final date has been set for Delta’s final international 747 flight, but it will happen sometime later this year.
Porter Airlines is establishing a crew base in Thunder Bay, Ont., as of January 2018. The move creates at least 40 local jobs for pilots and flight attendants. It is the first such base in Northern Ontario for any large commercially-scheduled airline. Porter has operated in Thunder Bay since 2008. Its presence has grown over
The General Superintendence (SG) of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) in Brazil has made the recommendation to the antitrust regulator’s Administrative Tribunal to approve the Joint Business Agreement (JBA) between American Airlines and LATAM Airlines Group. American’s JBA with LATAM has already received approvals from aviation authorities in Uruguay and Colombia. After conducting
With the Irish low-cost carrier admitting it has “messed up” over the planning of pilot holidays, Ryanair stands to lose an estimated US$24 million in compensation payouts alone. Currently the airline is looking at canceling between 40 and 50 flights a week for the next six weeks while many pilots take their annual holiday. The
Ryanair has released that it would cancel 40-50 flights daily for the next six weeks (to the end of October) to improve its system-wide punctuality which has fallen below 80% in the first two weeks of September through a combination of ATC capacity delays and strikes, weather disruptions and the impact of increased holiday allocations
Finnair has increased its capacity to several existing destinations in Germany. As of March 26, 2018, Finnair is adding a fourth daily frequency between Helsinki and Berlin. Furthermore, additional capacity will also be added to the German capital for the upcoming winter season by flying the route with a larger aircraft. In total, Finnair will
Belgian Competition Authority (BCA) has reported that the transfer of certain assets of Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium to Brussels Airlines is permissible. The Competition Authority’s decision permits Brussels Airlines to request the airport slots in order to definitely commence the cooperation by the end of October. On 30th March Brussels Airlines and Thomas Cook Belgium
Earlier this summer, Norwegian launched 24 weekly transatlantic flights from Cork, Shannon, Dublin and Belfast serving the New York, Boston and New England areas on the U.S. East Coast, with the routes served by brand new Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. To help support the transatlantic operations and future growth in Ireland, Norwegian will open a
Ryanair has reported additional three based aircraft to bring it to a total of 10 at Frankfurt Main airport. The Frankfurt summer 2018 schedule includes 38 (34 new) Frankfurt Main routes and 43 (1 new) Frankfurt Hahn routes which will deliver over 4.7m customers p.a. through Ryanair’s two Frankfurt airports next year. 34 new routes
airberlin is ending its Caribbean flight schedule from Dusseldorf on September 25, 2017. This brings to an end flights to Curacao (Netherlands Antilles), Cancun (Mexico), Havana and Varadero (Cuba) as well as Punta Cana and Puerto Plata (Dominican Republic) from this date. A few days ago, airberlin announced cancellations of a number of individual long-haul
