There’s always a lot of confusion about the air travel news these days—mainly because things change fast. Let’s face it, carriers are trying to keep profits up while balancing issues of government regulations and security. So, let’s take a quiz and see how up to date you are on the latest changes that may affect you as traveler. You might be surprised to find that things yo...
Brussels Airlines ends the previous year with a record growth. Not less than 7.500.909 passengers chose to fly Brussels Airlines to Europe, Africa or the States, or 892.042 more than in 2014. The European flights saw an increase in passenger numbers of 12.9 pct, the African network of 9.3 pct and New York and Washington 1.6 pct. The overall seat load factor grew with 2.4 percent points to 74.4 pct...
The airlines of the Lufthansa Group transported 107.7 million passengers in 2015, which is a new record. The Group carried 1.6 per cent more passengers than in the previous year. At the same time the company carried out more than one million flights and achieved the highest ever seat load factor of 80.4 per cent. This corresponds to an increase in capacity utilization of 0.3 percentage points comp...
Frontier Airlines will launch new service in Colorado Springs, Columbus, Pittsburgh and San Antonio starting in April, May and June as well as expand service from its largest market in Denver. Frontier is offering special introductory fares as low as $19 one-way on these new routes as of today at Flyfrontier.com. With The WORKSsm, fares will be as low as $112. Customers can take advantage of Fr...
Up to January 2016, Ameco has completed freighter conversion on five Boeing 757-200s in its Chengdu Branch, located in Shuangliu International Airport. The fifth freighter was finished in last December, and it was also the third aircraft from SF Airlines, a subsidiary of SF Express. The converted freighter shows a good performance in flight test. It is reported that China air express market wil...
Etihad Regional, operated by Darwin Airline, today announced that its codeshare agreement extension with Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has been approved by Switzerland’s Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) until 30 April 2022. Initially commenced on 29 March 2015, the codeshare agreement offers the guests of both airlines greater access between Swit...
Aeroflot will receive 34 Transaero aircraft, the first will be delivered in March 2016, Aeroflot CEO Vitaly Saveliev said Tuesday at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "We concluded a lease agreement with our leasing companies - Sberbank Leasing, VTB-Leasing and VEB-Leasing - to receive Transaero aircraft for our fleet. 34 aircraft, including long-haul, which are now undergoi...
The Russian Federal Air Transport Agency issued a note of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry on Monday, which said that Ural Airlines and Rossiya Airlines will now perform regular flights to Thailand, China and the United States. "Rossiya Airlines is appointed scheduled air carrier for passengers, cargo, baggage and mail on the agreed routes Moscow - Miami - Moscow (7 flights a week) and...
The Jota Group has purchased a second Avro RJ85 regional jet from Falko. The aircraft is an ex SN Brussels Airlines aircraft, and adds to Jota Aviation’s current BAe 146-200 and King Air turboprop fleet. The aircraft was delivered on Friday, 8th January. The RJ85, (G-CHFE, MSN E2294 will be re-registered G-JOTR) will be reconfigured into a 95-seat layout on completion of a C check with Av...
Boeing received a patent last month for a unique airplane design that would lower onto shipping containers and then lock them into place. The strange-looking design has landing gear that is wider than the shipping containers and a large fuselage that opens underneath the plane for the containers to slot into. Existing cargo planes don't use the standardized intermodal shipping containers th...
Long-haul low-cost operator AirAsia X has cancelled 11 Airbus A330-300s in favour of taking 11 re-engined A330neo jets. Airbus has revealed the agreement in its full-year order and delivery data for 2015, released during a briefing in Paris. AirAsia X is taking the A330-900neo version of the new long-haul jet. The change raises its A330-900neo orders from 55 to 66, and effecti...
Israel's Flying Production has unveiled an upgraded version of its Da Vinci vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicle. Dubbed the "Gen B", the development features a Controp electro-optical/infrared sensor and a micro data link. "The result is a game-changer – we have the only true multi-rotor system that can conduct a real mission in long ranges of 5...
