Airlines tips

With the 2023 UEFA Champions League final in the books, Turkish Airlines is readying its second year as the organization’s airline sponsor. 

WestJet group is planning to wind down low-cost carrier Sunwing Airlines and integrate it into its main business, according to a memo seen by Reuters. The move is part of the integration process by WestJet which completed the acquisition of Sunwing airlines in May.

Keeping Lisbon’s airport hub and safeguarding TAP’s strategic role for Portugal will be key conditions of the airline’s upcoming privatization, more than the sale price, the government said on Wednesday.

Mexico’s two-year-old air safety rating downgrade by U.S. authorities has caused a more-than-billion-dollar hit to national airlines, an industry head said in an interview Wednesday.

Inflation be damned. Concerns about rising prices still aren’t slowing down pent-up travel demand in the U.S.

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Airlines have been working to improve in-flight entertainment options for years, with Skift Research stating in a 2014 report that it was an important factor for airlines to compete.

Norwegian Air has agreed to buy domestic peer Wideroe for 1.13 billion crowns ($106 million), it said on Thursday.

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Italy’s Industry Minister Adolfo Urso said on Monday that airlines benefiting from the country’s tourist boom have hiked their prices too much, and demanded an explanation.

Low-cost Mexican airline Volaris has unveiled its new ‘Barbie Aircraft’ across its social media platforms. 

Skift Aviation Forum will return to the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas metroplex on November 1, hosted by DFW International Airport. This event, taking place at the Omni Fort Worth Hotel, will bring together CEOs and senior executives from across the airline industry to discuss where aviation is headed.

Middle Eastern carriers are leading the aviation recovery in May with traffic at 17% above 2019 levels, according to a report from International Air Transport Association (IATA). The airlines in the region saw a 31% traffic increase compared to May a year ago. Capacity climbed 25% and the load factor pushed up almost 4 percentage points to 80%. Globally, traffic in May is now at 96% of May 2019 levels.

Airlines have long sold tickets on each other’s flights using interline agreements and strategic marketing deals called codeshares. But dozens have recently been adopting alternative and more flexible arrangements with the help of software from startups such as DoHop.

Japan Airlines (JAL) and Sumitomo Corporation are set to trial ‘Any Wear, Anywhere’, a new clothes sharing service.

Three airlines — American, Lufthansa and EasyJet — are joining the FAA, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency, and Google, among others, on an advisory committee to further develop a model to assess and report the climate impact of flight emissions.

Pilots at United Airlines will get cumulative 34.5%-40.2% increase in pay raises in a new four-year contract, their union said on Saturday.

The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote next week on legislation to raise the mandatory commercial pilot retirement age to 67 from 65 and make other aviation reforms, Republican House leaders said Friday.

JetBlue Airways and American Airlines will begin winding down their alliance in the northeast in a week’s time, or on July 21. That’s when the carriers will stop taking new reservations under the pact, which a federal judge ruled violated U.S. antitrust law in May.

Delta Air Lines saw strong profits in the second quarter thanks to booming international travel to Europe and Latin America.

Consumers continue to splurge on air tickets. But travel patterns are shifting so often, partly due to work-life changes wrought by the pandemic, that airlines must constantly adapt on booking plane seats and remain cautious in forecasting demand and revenue.