Alaska Air Group, parent company of Alaska Airlines, agreed to purchase carrier Virgin America for approximately $2.6 billion. This will make Alaska Airlines a much bigger airline, adding Virgin America’s 60 Airbus A320 jets to Alaska’s mainline fleet of 147 Boeing 737s. Alaska would overtake JetBlue, which it beat in the bidding for Virgin America, to…
American Airlines have announced that they are restarting certain routes out of Dublin & Shannon to expand their operations in Ireland much further. American have announced that the Dublin-Charlotte & Chicago routes will be operated by their Airbus A330 aircraft and their Shannon-Philadelphia Route will be operated by a Boeing B757. All of the three…
Etihad Airways have announced an expansion of routes out of Istanbul Airport. They will expand services to Istanbul with a 4x per week service to Sabiha Gokcen Airport starting on July 1st of this year. The service will be operated by the airline’s Airbus A320-200 and will have 16 seats in Business with 120 in…
One of Europe’s biggest airlines, easyJet launched a route between Malta and Geneva on March 29th. The new service which is expected to carry over 6,000 passengers in the first summer of it’s operations commenced on March 29th and will operate 2x per week, on Tuesdays and Saturdays. easyJet launched services to Malta in 2008…
After launching their first passenger service in Orlando, National Airlines are to expand their connections by adding flights from New York, Islip & Puerto Rico. They were to initially launch these routes on July 1st but due to an increase in demand & growth, the airline have brought it forward by a month, to June…
Flybe have announced the expansion of their presence in Doncaster with 2 brand new routes! They have announced that as part of their 2016/17 winter programme, they will be launching flights to Düsseldorf and Chambery. The Düsseldorf flights are due to start on the 30th October 2016 with the Chambery Flights to be launched on…
The head of Brussels Airport says a limited number of passenger flights are planned to resume Sunday. CEO Arnaud Feist made the announcement Saturday in a news conference at a hotel near the airport. He said the first service on Sunday should be three flights operated by Brussels Airlines, Belgium’s leading carrier, to Faro in…
United Airlines have begun their first transcontinental flight from the West Coast destination of San Fransisco to Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport in Israel. This makes United Airlines the first airline in the world to provide a direct service from the West Coast to the middle eastern destination. United Airlines Flight 954/955 will be operated…
It has been reported that Alaska Airlines have plans to go big within the Northwest Pacific region of the US. They want to do this by trying to takeover Virgin America. It has been reported that they have put in a bid for the airline, although no fee has been announced or been released to…
Zaventem airport in Brussels is expected to reopen this evening as emergency repairs are completed. The airport has been closed since March 22nd when two suicide bombers detonated explosives in the departures hall. The airport is expected to operate at around 20 per cent of capacity when it reopens.
On March 30th, Qatar Airways’ first inaugural service from Doha-Birmingham took place. This mark’s Qatar Airways’ 4th destination within the UK adding to UK flights from Edinburgh, Manchester & London Heathrow. This service will take place 8x per week with their Boeing B787-8 Dreamliner, marking nearly 75 flights per week outside of the UK alone…
Kenya Airways have announced that further cuts will be made to the airline. Earlier, last week, they announced that they were degrading their fleet numbers from 52 aircraft down to 36 aircraft. This week however, they have announced that 600 jobs are to be “retrenched” or “redeployed”, hinting at job cuts. The Kenya Airways CEO…