Delta Airlines has received two doses of bad news in the last couple of days.  First, Japan Airlines decided to stick with an alliance with American rather than switch to one with Delta on Monday, and then just yesterday, the Department of Transportation made a ruling on the Delta proposed slot-swap deal with US Airways.  [...]

OpenSkies, the all-premium class airline brainchild and subsidiary of British Airways operating business class only Boeing 757’s across the Atlantic, is planning to launch a new route on May 3 connecting Washington Dulles International Airport with Paris Orly Airport.

The airline will begin service offering five flights per week and plan to upgrade service frequencies in [...]

Jazz Air of Canada today announced a letter of intent with Bombardier to acquire 30 new Q400 NextGen turboprop aircraft.  The letter specifies a firm order of 15 Q400’s with another 15 on option. The Q400’s will have a passenger capacity of 74 seats.

Deliveries are expected beginning in May 2011.  The first 15 Q400’s will [...]

The Federal Aviation Administration has confirmed that there is a safety investigation once again at Southwest Airlines.  The investigation is related to a previous issue found at the airline concerning the way safety directives are handled.  Last year Southwest suffered embarrassment as 82 aircraft were found to have unapproved parts.

The current investigation centers around a [...]

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 [...]