Alaska Airlines flight attendants approved a new five-year contract. Included in the new contract are quality of life enhancements and pay increases that rank Alaska’s 3,400 flight attendants among the highest paid in the industry at every pay step. Under the Railway Labor Act, which governs collective bargaining agreements in the airline industry, contracts do
Virgin America and China Eastern announce a codeshare agreement on December 16th, to offer seamless booking and travel from Shanghai, China to multiple destinations across the United States. The new agreement will see China Eastern place its two-digit flight code (MU) on a range of Virgin America routes from Los Angeles and San Francisco –
Taiwan-based V Air is off the ground for the first time with its maiden service from Taipei to Bangkok. The carrier’s first flight ZV005 took off from Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport at 6:40 a.m. with a nearly full load of passengers. The route will be operated daily, using an Airbus A321 aircraft. V Air brings
If you did not know any of the history behind this story you would be forgiven for assuming the nut policy related to quality of materials used in the construction and maintenance of planes used by Korean Air. However the nut policy in question has no connection with their planes’ construction, and instead relates to
Less than a month after Mayanmar announced a 30-year public-private partnership for the country’s second largest airport at Mandalay, on Dec. 15th it has been announced that the Philippines will be looking to do the same with six of their own airport projects by putting them up for tender next year. This would appear to
United Airlines will operate additional flights to Shanghai and Chengdu, China, from the airline’s premier trans-Pacific gateway hub in San Francisco during the peak summer travel season. The current daily service between San Francisco and Shanghai will increase to two flights daily from May 6th to Oct. 24th, 2015, and the three-times-weekly service between San
Global Eagle Entertainment, a worldwide leading provider of content, connectivity and digital media solutions to airlines, has been selected by WestJet to manage its inflight content services. WestJet is currently overhauling its existing inflight entertainment (IFE) system and replacing it with a wireless IFE solution. Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) will provide a broad array of
All flights in and out of London were cancelled for nearly two hours on Friday afternoon owing to what has been confirmed as a major computer glitch at the NATS Swanwick air traffic control centre. Transport secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, stated that: “Disruption on this scale is simply unacceptable and I have asked NATS for a
As a part of its US$2bn investment to give customers a world-class travel experience, American Airlines will upgrade its regional fleet by adding Gogo inflight wireless services to all two-class regional jets. Nearly 250 of American’s regional aircraft will have inflight wireless Internet service installed by 2016. “We’re investing in a more competitive and consistent
The Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, introduced in Congress last night, includes important language that paves the way for U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) approval of Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) foreign air carrier permit application, which has been pending for nearly a year. Congress included significant new language that the Secretary of Transportation
