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United Airlines to start Indianapolis-San Francisco service, pilots release a...
United Airlines (Chicago) has announced new daily nonstop service from Indianapolis to its hub at San Francisco International Airport., beginning on January 7, 2014. The conveniently timed flights...
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Germanwings adds new routes from Berlin Tegel and Hamburg
Germanwings (2nd) (Cologne/Bonn) on October 27 will add more routes and schedules for Berlin (Tegel), Hamburg, Cologne/Bonn, Hannover, Stuttgart and Nuremberg as the Lufthansa subsidiary expands as...
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Finnair becomes the first airline to operate an Airbus A321 with Sharklets
Finnair (Helsinki) today (September 6) has become the first airline in the world to operate Airbus A321 aircraft equipped with new, fuel-saving Sharklet wing tip devices. The extended-range,...
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Jetairfly is coming to Miami
Jetairfly (Jetairfly.com) (Ostend and Brussels) today announced the April 2014 launch of nonstop service between Miami International Airport and Brussels, Belgium, the capital of the European Union....
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Ryanair carries over 9 million passengers in August, the first European...
Ryanair (Dublin) celebrated a milestone in August and issued this statement (while taking a swipe at Aer Lingus): Ryanair released its passenger and load factor statistics for August 2013: Traffic...
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Etihad Airways introduces a new “Flying Nanny” program to keep the kids busy
Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi) has introduced a new “Flying Nanny” program that will be appreciated by parents flying with children (and probably other passengers around them). The airline has also...
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LOT Polish Airlines will not seek any more public aid, will drop...
LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw) will not apply in September to the Treasury for payment of the second tranche of public aid. According to the airline, this is possible thanks to the promising results of...
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Discovery Air is a new airline in Nigeria with two Boeing 737-300s
Discovery Air (Lagos) is another new airline in Nigeria. The first Boeing 737-300 has been painted in this bright color scheme at Southend. Former Virgin Express and Brussels Airlines Boeing 737-36N...
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Thai Airways International’ Airbus A330-300 HS-TEF skids off the runway in...
Thai Airways International‘s (Bangkok) Airbus A330-321 HS-TEF (msn 066) while operating flight TG 679 from Guangzhou (CAN) to Bangkok (BKK) (Suvarnabhumi) with 287 passengers and 14 crew members...
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United announces new routes from the Chicago O’Hare hub
United Airlines (Chicago) has announced plans to launch new nonstop service from its Chicago hub at O’Hare International Airport to Elmira, New York, and State College, Pennsylvania. The airline also...
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Airzena Georgian Airways to lease a Boeing 737-700 from ALC
Air Lease Corporation has announced the long term lease of one Boeing 737-700 jet aircraft (msn 33015) to Airzena Georgian Airways (Tbilisi, Georgia). The aircraft is scheduled for delivery in...
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United to start summer seasonal flights from Chicago O’Hare to Edinburgh,...
United Airlines (Chicago) has announced will launch nonstop summer seasonal service between its Chicago hub at O’Hare International Airport and Edinburgh, Scotland, beginning on May 22, 2014, subject...
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Air Georgian and Regional 1 Airlines sign MOU to merge
Air Georgian Limited (AGL) (Air Canada Express) (Toronto-Pearson) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Regional 1 Airlines (R1) (Calgary), a subsidiary of Avmax Group Inc., a fully...
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Avianca Colombia cancels 160 domestic flights due to a pilot pay dispute
Avianca Colombia (Bogota) has cancelled 160 domestic flight through next Wednesday because its pilots are refusing to work overtime due to a pay dispute according to Reuters. Avianca’s 1,000 pilots...
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JetBlue Airways to fly from Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood to Port of Spain, Trinidad
JetBlue Airways (New YorK) today announced the intent to begin service to Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (POS) with once daily nonstop flights from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport...
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FedEx Corporation reports net income of $489 million in the fiscal 1Q, up 7%
FedEx Corporation (FedEx Express) (Memphis) reported earnings of $1.53 per diluted share for the first quarter ended August 31, compared to $1.45 per share last year. “Growth in overall demand for our...
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Volaris to go public
Volaris (Mexico City) will become a publicly-owned company. The Mexican carrier has issued this statement: Volaris has announced it has priced its initial public offering comprised of 61,992,540...
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Singapore Airlines and Tata Group to form a new Indian airline
Singapore Airlines (Singapore) and the Tata Group of India are coming to together to form a new full service Indian airline based in Delhi. Tata Sons will control 51 percent of the shares and...
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Air France to cut another 2,800 jobs in 2014, Transavia France to get 5...
Air France (Paris) has announced a new round of job cuts as the airline is headed towards its sixth consecutive annual operating loss due to weakening air travel demand. The carrier is plan to cut...
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Virgin Australia unveils a new in-flight entertainment system
Virgin Australia Airlines (Brisbane) has officially launched its new wireless in-flight entertainment system, representing a new era in the way travelers experience entertainment in the sky according...
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Allegiant Air grounds half of its MD-80 fleet for emergency slide inspections
Allegiant Air (Las Vegas) yesterday (September 20) grounded upwards of 30 McDonnell Douglas MD-80s (DC-9-80s). The cancellation of flights was due to an inspection of the emergency chutes of its 52...
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Air Astana to start Astana-London Heathrow weekly flights on October 31
Air Astana (Almaty) will start a weekly nonstop route linking the capital of Astana with London (Heathrow) starting on October 31. The new route will complement existing Almaty-London (Heathrow)...
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Norwegian has technical problems with its two Boeing 787s
Norwegian Air Shuttle (Norwegian.com) (Norwegian Long Haul) (Oslo) is suffering with technical issues with its two delivered Boeing 787-8s and has called in Boeing to fix the problems according to...
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Willie Walsh: “A number of European carriers will fail this winter”
British Airways‘ (London) and IAG’s CEO Willie Walsh stated in an article published by Travel Weekly, has warned “a number” of European carriers are poised to fail this winter season. Read the full...
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United Airlines to drop the Los Angeles-Inyokern route on November 5
United Airlines (Chicago) is dropping the Los Angeles-Inyokern route on November 5 per Airline Route. The United Express route is operated with Embraer EMB-120 Brasilias of SkyWest Airlines (St....
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Grounded Zest Air is now AirAsia Zest following an investment by AirAsia
Zest Air (Zest Airways) (Manila) has rebranded as AirAsia Zest (AirAsia Zest Airways, Inc., formerly Asian Spirit) following the investment of AirAsia (Malaysia) (Kuala Lumpur) through AirAsia...
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American Airlines is planning to operate the last Boeing 767-200 service on...
American Airlines (Dallas/Fort Worth) is planning (subject to change) to operate the last Boeing 767-200 revenue flight on May 7, 2014 between Los Angeles and New York (JFK) according to Airline...
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Alitalia to start twice-weekly Venice-Tokyo (Narita) flights on April 2, 2014
Alitalia (2nd) (Rome) on April 2, 2014 will launch a new twice-weekly route linking Venice with Tokyo (Narita). The new route will be operated with Boeing 777-200 ERs according to Airline Route. In...
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AMR and US Airways Group extend their merger agreement
AMR Corporation (Dallas/Fort Worth), the parent company of American Airlines, Inc., (Dallas/Fort Worth) and US Airways Group, Inc. (Phoenix), the parent of US Airways (Phoenix), have each agreed to...
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Air Canada seeks a new Air Canada Express regional partner for trans-border...
Air Canada (Montreal) today announced that it will undertake a Request for Proposal (RFP) process to select a new regional airline to operate certain existing U.S. regional trans-border routes,...
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Delta and Virgin Atlantic win DOT antitrust immunity for the trans-Atlantic...
Delta Air Lines (Atlanta) and Virgin Atlantic Airways (London) welcomed the decision by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to approve the carriers’ joint venture by granting antitrust...
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EasyJet to start Southend-Tenerife flights on December 13
Easyjet (easyJet.com) (London-Luton) will start a new twice-weekly from Southend to the island of Tenerife starting on December 13. Copyright Photo: Paul Bannwarth/AirlinersGallery.com. Airbus...
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British Airways premiers its new Airbus A380 today to Los Angeles
British Airways (London) is premiering its “Red Carpet Route” between Los Angeles and London today, the inaugural flight for the airline’s first Airbus A380. The City of Angels is the first of the...
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Delta to fly for Syracuse University
Delta Air Lines (Atlanta) is expanding its charter program flying professional and college teams to and from their games. Delta and Syracuse University announced today that Delta will serve as the...
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Air France-KLM defers a decision on Alitalia, seeks more information
Air France (Paris) and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam) stated yesterday after a board meeting that it will defer its decision on what to do with its 25 percent share in Alitalia (2nd) (Rome). The...
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Zhejiang Loong Airlines signs MOU for 20 Airbus A320 Family aircraft
Zhejiang Loong Airlines, an airline based in Hongzhou, capital city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Airbus for 20 Airbus A320 Family...
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Spring Airlines takes delivery of its first Airbus A320 with Sharklets
Spring Airlines (Shanghai-Pudong) has taken delivery of its first A320 aircraft equipped with Sharklet fuel saving wing-tip devices. Airbus A320-214 B-9965 (msn 5778, ex D-AXAD) was handed over on...
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BOC Aviation orders 25 Airbus A320 Family aircraft
BOC Aviation (Singapore, the aircraft leasing subsidiary of Bank of China, has announced during the 15th Aviation Expo China 2013 in Beijing an additional firm order for the purchase of 25 A320 Family...
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Premier Aviation to maintain Air Canada’s Embraer fleet
Air Canada (Montreal) and Premier Aviation have announced the signing of a five-year agreement for the provision of airframe maintenance in support of Air Canada’s fleet of 60 Embraer ERJ 190 and ERJ...
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AeroMexico brings its new Boeing 787 to New York
AeroMexico (Mexico City) yesterday (September 24) introduced its new Boeing 787-8 on the Mexico City-New York (JFK) route. AM is now operating its flights AM 0409 and AM 0408 from New York to Mexico...
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EasyJet to expand operations in Hamburg and Berlin
EasyJet (UK) (easyJet.com) (London-Luton) has announced that it will open a base in Hamburg as well as increasing its fleet in Berlin in the Spring of 2014. The announcement was made by chief...
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KLM is coming to Santiago, Chile
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam) will extend the Amsterdam-Buenos Aires route to Santiago, Chile starting on February 2, 2014. The airline issued this statement: From February 2, 2014, flights...
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Atlas Air to fly for Astral Aviation
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. today announced that its Atlas Air, Inc. (New York) unit has entered into a contract with Astral Aviation Limited (Nairobi), a Kenya-based cargo airline, to provide...
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JetBlue Airways is set to introduce a new tail fin design with the first...
JetBlue Airways (New York-JFK) is getting ready to take delivery of its first Airbus A321. Besides introducing a new upscale cabin for the competitive trans-con routes next year, JetBlue will also...
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United Airlines and the IAM reach a tentative agreement on a new contract
United Airlines (Chicago) has announced that the company has reached tentative agreements on new joint collective bargaining agreements with the International Association of Machinists (IAM) for the...
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Sunwing Airlines to operate weekly vacation flights for Kelowna, BC to...
Sunwing Airlines (Toronto-Pearson) is planning to launch a new route from Kelowna, British Columbia to Ixtapa, Mexico for the upcoming winter season. Flights from Kelowna to Ixtapa will start on...
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Fly Jamaica is coming to Toronto on October 8
Fly Jamaica Airways (Kingston) will launch a new route to Toronto (Pearson) on October 8. The new airline commenced scheduled services on February 14, 2013 between Kingston, Jamaica and New York (JFK)...
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Lufthansa’ CEO states it may consider a possible SAS purchase
Scandinavian Airlines-SAS (Stockholm) may have a new owner. Lufthansa‘s (Frankfurt) CEO Christoph Franz stated yesterday that his Lufthansa Group “could consider” a bid for the ailing carrier. Read...
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Alitalia pleads for more capital
Alitalia’s (2nd) (Rome) first half loss increased to over $398 million. The struggling Italian carrier is proposing a capital infusion of $135 million according to this report by Reuters which would...
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The DOJ objects to handing over its merger analysis documents to American...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) (Washington) has asked the special master handling discovery disputes to limit the number of documents it must turn over to American Airlines (Dallas/Fort Worth)...
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