Boeing today was pleased with the performance of their new Boeing member – the Boeing 747-8 Freighter.  The newest member of the 747 family has been delayed twice, but met this first flight milestone with a three-hour test flight.

The Boeing 747-8 is 18-feet longer than the 747-400 and shares some of the new technologies of [...]

United States airline January traffic statistics as released by each carrier.  The main statistics released on a monthly basis illustrate the carriers traffic illustrated here as a percentage increase or decrease from the same month one year earlier; carrier capacity illustrated here as a percentage increase of decrease from the same month one year earlier; [...]

Delta Airlines has announced new non-stop service to Grand Cayman of the Cayman Islands will commence on June 12.  The airline will offer once-weekly Saturday flights between the two cities on Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

This new service to the Cayman Islands compliments Delta Airlines current Cayman service out of their hub in Atlanta.

Reports from Japan are that the leadership of Japan Airlines has decided to stick with their One World Alliance instead of jumping ship and joining SkyTeam.  This is an enormous coup for American Airlines, a founding airline partner of One World.  However, it is a disappointment for SkyTeam member and world’s largest airline Delta Airlines.

Both [...]

Can you say KARMA?  The long awaited bankruptcy of Mesa Airlines appears to be here as Jonathan Ornstein’s airline has been forced into Chapter 11.  The filing this morning is reported to allow Mesa the ability to restructure debts as well as shed unused aircraft without financial obligations. 

Mesa says that the bankruptcy will not affect [...]

Allegiant Airlines, low-cost leisure airline, has agreed to purchase 18 used MD-80 aircraft from Scandanavian Airlines Systems.  Allegiant anticipates the cost of integrating these 18 MD-80’s into their fleet to be about $4 million.  The aircraft will be delivered during the first three quarters of 2010 and will all be in service by the end [...]

AirTran Airways has been growing steadily at Milwaukee since its failed attempt to acquire Midwest Airlines nearly two years ago.  As a result, they have decided to officially declare Milwaukee a hub and are adding more than 100 new jobs to the area including 50 Boeing 737 pilot positions and 50 Boeing 717 and 737 [...]

Delta Airlines, the world’s largest carrier, was granted permission yesterday by the Federal Aviation Administration to operate the two carriers – Delta Airlines and acquired Northwest Airlines – as one, single airline.  This involved the FAA granting Delta Airlines a single operating certificate to use for both carriers. 

Delta plans to make some of the internal [...]

JetBlue will launch new service to their next Caribbean destination by adding Punta Cana on the northeast side of Dominican Republic.  Daily flights will operate from New York JFK Airport and weekly flights on Saturday’s will fly between Boston and PUJ. 

The flights will begin in May and operate using JetBlue’s Airbus A320 aircraft.  JetBlue has [...]

Frontier Airlines announced new seasonal flights to their second non-stop destination between their low-fare hub of Denver to Alaska.   Frontier will begin flights to Fairbanks, Alaska four times weekly on Airbus A319 aircraft between May and September. 

This new Alaska service will complement current seasonal fligths Frontier operates between Denver and Anchorage.  Also this week in [...]

US Airways launched two brand new destinations from their Charlotte hub this week.  Daily service to both Honolulu, Hawaii and Rio de Janiero, Brazil began earlier this week. 

The Hawaii service to Honolulu is the first ever from Charlotte and a break into the east-coast to Hawaii market for US Airways that has seen success with their [...]

Virgin America announced that their 3rd quarter loss was reduced to $5.9 million from the $59.1 million from last year the same quarter.  They also said that they will be adding more aircraft in 2010 and 2011 and will begin flying to new cities.  Currently, they are hoping to start service between LAX and SFO [...]

For the first time, US Airways will connect their hub at Philadelphia Airport with the largest city in Alaska – Anchorage.  The flights will be operated by Boeing 757 aircraft and will fly on a seasonal basis.  The flights begin on June 1, 2010 and operate daily through September 7, 2010.  This new service complements [...]

Low-cost carrier Allegiant Air had found a home at Orlando Sanford International, but is planning a move of some Orlando flights to Orlando International Airport in a few months.  Allegiant Air has made a niche for themselves in the commercial airline industry by operating efficient point-to-point flights between large, leisure markets and smaller cities a [...]

Continental Airlines, based in Houston, has announced that on March 27, 2010, the airline will launch daily non-stop transatlantic service between their New York hub at Newark Liberty International Airport and Munich, Germany. 

This service comes just after Continental is officially integrated into the Star Alliance and is further evidence of their full participation in the [...]

A four hour computer network failure was resolved earlier this morning, but not after creating a long list of delayed and cancelled flights through out the United States and even affecting International flights. 

The Federal Aviation Administration said that a software configuration problem with a network router was to blame for the outage of the flight [...]

Today, Boeing delivered a 777-300ER to Philippine Airlines through a United States based leasing company.  The new aircraft is the first Boeing 777 to join the Philippine Airlines fleet and is one of two 777-300ER’s coming from GE Capital Aviation Services aircraft leasing company. 

Philippine Airlines also has four Boeing 777’s on order directly with the [...]