Airlines & Routes

Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) has appointed Jeff Wilkinson as Chief Executive Officer of its subsidiary company, Jordan Aircraft Maintenance Limited (Joramco). Jeff was most recently Chief Executive Officer of Etihad Airways Engineering based in Abu Dhabi, responsible for several core business functions including Airframe and Component maintenance services, Supply Chain Management, Design Engineering, CAMO, Line […]

Leisure charter carrier Small Planet Airlines is further expanding its presence in Germany – the airline signed contracts with German tour operators FTI Touristik and DER Touristik Deutschland and this way secured the top 4 German tour operators’ as its clients. Since 2016, Small Planet Airlines Germany is also cooperating with leisure travel giants TUI

Norwegian has been granted a foreign air carrier permit by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) for its British subsidiary ‘Norwegian UK’ (NUK). The permit allows NUK to operate flights between the UK, Europe and the United States, effective immediately. The ‘Norwegian UK’ (NUK) subsidiary was set up in 2015 to allow Norwegian to build

WestJet and Hong Kong Airlines have entered into a code-share agreement which sees Hong Kong Airlines placing its HX marketing code on WestJet-operated flights. The two carriers are building on an existing interline agreement put in place earlier this year. Hong Kong Airlines’ daily Hong Kong-Vancouver service will allow guests to connect onto select WestJet

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

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