Articles tagged “airline weekly”

Spirit Airlines and JetBlue Airways dispute United Airlines' claims that they are responsible for delays at the congested Newark Liberty International Airport. Instead, they argue if United thinks too many flights are taking off per hour, it should reduce its own operations, and not try to limit theirs.

AirBaltic is not just helping out an idled peer in its deal to lease an aircraft from Ukraine International Airlines this summer. It's also an example of how bad the global supply chain issues are.

Qantas finally did it. After years of gauging the market for Sydney-New York and Sydney-London flights, and delaying the project during the pandemic, the Australian carrier is forging ahead with an order for 12 Airbus A350s that can handle the almost-20-hour flight time. But will customers want to spend that long in an airplane? Qantas thinks so.

The takeaway for airlines so far: demand changed for the better in March but summer may not be as rosy as many hoped, at least for travelers. Staffing concerns continue to weigh on schedules, threatening limited and pricey options for those with pent-up demand to travel.

Big changes are underway in Latin American aviation. After restructuring as a quasi-budget airline, Colombia's Avianca now wants to acquire discount competitor Viva Air in a deal that could give it two-thirds of the Colombian market.

Brazil's Gol is feeling the benefit of its expanded strategic alliance with American Airlines just weeks after the pact was finalized.

Finnair bears the biggest brunt among European airlines from Russia's airspace closure. With the expectation that it will be some time before flights can resume, Finnair is pivoting and shrinking its business in an effort to adapt to its new reality.

Canada's emergence from the pandemic is taking longer than in the U.S. Air Canada is proof, with its executives now forecasting a return to 2019 traffic by the middle of next year.

China's state-owned carriers are something of a proxy for government policy. The lack of plans to resume much international flying this year at Air China and China Southern signals continued tight Covid-19 border restrictions for the world's second largest economy.

Unions come for Avelo and Breeze. Flight attendants at Avelo have voted to organize, while pilots at Breeze are filing for unionization. Airlines in the U.S. are among the most heavily unionized industries in the country.