NEWS Alaska Airlines Orders Six More Boeing 737-900ERs
Alaska Airlines will buy six more Boeing 737-900ERs, in an order valued at $594 million at current list prices. Four aircraft are scheduled for delivery in 2016 and two in 2017. Link
NEWS Qatar Airways Denies Staff Need Permission to Marry
Doha (AFP) – The chief of Qatar Airways, Akbar al-Baker, has furiously denied claims that its flight attendants are sacked if they get married. Link
NEWS Alitalia Begins Reinstating Long-Haul Network
Alitalia, which recently became an Etihad Airways equity partner, will resume services to South Korea after a 20-year break and has detailed plans to serve two destinations in China. Link
NEWS Delta CEO Associates Gulf Carriers With 9/11 Terrorists in Open Skies Fight
Delta CEO Richard Anderson raised the rhetoric today — or lowered it, depending on your perspective — in the increasingly acrimonious debate between legacy airlines Delta, United, and American Airlines, and their rivals Etihad, Emirates, and Qatar Airways, often referred to collectively as the Gulf carriers. Link
NEWS Timeline: Major U.S. Airline Merger Activity, 1950-2015
With American Airlines and US Airways in the process of merging, we wondered exactly how many mergers have shaped the industry into what it is today. Link
NEWS JetBlue turns 15 with new special livery
JetBlue Airways turned 15 years old last Wednesday, but the low cost carrier is celebrating with a special livery which it unveiled on Tuesday. Link
NEWS (Video) Handheld GoPro from T-38 Cockpit
Aerial footage from T-38 Talon during Sentry Savannah 15-1. Sentry Savannah is the Air National Guard’s largest Fighter Integration, Air-to-Air, training exercise encompassing fourth and fifth generation aircraft. The Air Dominance Center is hosting Sentry Savannah 15-1 which is a National Guard Bureau sponsored exercise designed to provide pilots wartime readiness training in an economical,…
NEWS Las Vegas company offers chance to join mile-high club
Love Cloud opened last March at the North Las Vegas Airport, 2722 Perimeter Road, and flies couples over the Strip, Hoover Dam, Lake Mead or Red Rock Canyon for daytime or nighttime flights. Link
NEWS Hainan Airlines adds more nonstop flights from Seattle
Beijing and Haikou based Hainan Airlines will be adding more flights from Seattle Tacoma International Airport to China. The quickly growing airline will add a new route from Seattle to Shanghai from the 22nd June. The new route will be operating on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays with a two class Airbus A330-200 aircraft. The…
NEWS Milano Expo 2015 appoints Oman Air as official reseller
As Milano Expo 2015 prepares to open its doors to an expected 20 million visitors, Oman Air has been named as the event’s Preferred Authorised Reseller for the Sultanate of Oman. The Omani national airline offers tickets for sale and details of how they can be purchased has been published. EXPO Milano 2015 takes place…
NEWS Qatar Airways brings new Boeing Dreamliner to Tunisia
Qatar Airways has extended its Boeing 787 Dreamliner route network to Tunisia with the launch of services to capital city Tunis. The increase in demand in the region and the airline’s steadfast commitment to the Tunisian market has resulted in the introduction of the state-of-the-art Dreamliner on the daily flights between Doha and Tunis. The…