Articles tagged “airline weekly”

What's old is new again amid a pilot shortage and high oil prices in the U.S. American Airlines will begin offering connecting bus service to two destinations from its Philadelphia hub in June in a low-carbon expansion of its network.

JetBlue's surprise bid for Spirit upended the airline industry and could derail Spirit's planned merger with Frontier Airlines. Analysts question whether Spirit is a match for JetBlue, but JetBlue's leaders insist it is and say the combined airline would lower fares.

Global planemakers are confident in their ability to meet production targets despite the Western sanctions on Russian exports. The aerospace industry relies on Russian supply of this key metal for aircraft production.

European airline leaders agree the industry needs to do more to become more sustainable, but they say they can't achieve the EU's ambitious greenhouse-gas reduction targets without government help. Airlines are calling on the EU to support the transition to sustainable jet fuel.

European low-cost carriers are moving in to claim market share as their larger rivals struggle to return to their pre-pandemic size. The discounters are facing off this summer in Southern European leisure destinations.

Could India's Jet Airways be ready for a comeback? The airline had global ambitious before going belly-up in 2019, before the pandemic. But now, a consortium of investors say the carrier is all set to relaunch.

Russia's move to seize foreign-owned leased aircraft will cost AerCap around $3.5 billion. Even if it got the aircraft back, the lessor doesn't know what condition they will be in and if they can be redeployed at non-Russian airlines.

Startups Breeze Airways and Avelo Airlines are rivals, a competition that is now igniting a battle in the relatively sleepy aviation state of Connecticut, where two airports just 56 miles apart, Hartford and New Haven, are being pitted against one another over expansion demands from the two carriers.

Delta Air Lines is doubling down on its premium airline positioning with plans for new lie-flat seats on transcontinental U.S. routes. The investment comes as premium revenues, particularly from leisure travelers, have proven particularly robust in the recovery.

Berlin is preparing for a busy summer tourist season, despite the war raging just a few hundred miles away. Several airlines are launching new flights throughout Europe in anticipation of strong summer demand to visit the German capital.