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 [...]
Air Canada has announced new flight service connecting Western Canadian city Calgary, Alberta and Tokyo Narita Airport in Japan.
The new flights will commence on March 27, 2010 and will be operated on 211-seat Boeing 767-300 ER aircraft. Air Canada also will focus on connections in Tokyo to a number of Star Alliance partner airline flights [...]
Houston based Continental Airlines starts three new non-stop markets from their Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport today in recognition and support of their new entry into the Star Alliance that occurred earlier this week.
The three new routes will better match Star Alliance partners Air Canada, United and Lufthansa. Continental will augment connecting possibilities with Air [...]
A new code-sharing agreement was announed late last week between Olympic Air of Greece and Delta Airlines, the world’s largest airline. The two airlines will code-share on the New York JFK to Athens route allowing the two airlines to partner on scheduling, capacity, pricing and operations. The Greek carrier also says it is soon to [...]
Air Canada has announced its intention to operate flights to both European cities of Barcelona, Spain and Athens, Greece. The new flights to both destinations will operate from both Toronto and Montreal and on a seasonal basis. The flights will begin June 3, 2010 and operate through October 18, 2010.
Air Canada will use their 244-seat [...]
As Continental moves closer to joining the Star Alliance that features neighbor Air Canada, some jockeying of route structure is expected in order to provide greater synergy and cooperation between the two carriers.
Continental earlier this week announced first-ever new flights to operate between their Houston hub in Texas and Edmonton, Alberta in central Canada. On [...]
The Star Alliance airline partnering group has continued to fare well and expanded its roster of members in recent years. I wanted to take a look at the current members since Continental Airlines was just granted regulatory permission to join, making it the third US airline to be a Star Alliance member. Their web site [...]
The Department of Transportation (DOT) today approved Continental Airlines request to be excused from antitrust laws paving the way for its inception into the Star Alliance. Not many details were provided yet, and there were only a few small restrictions on certain routes.
This will give Continental the ability to dump Sky Team and join Star [...]
WestJet, Canada’s ever-growing and increasingly formidable low-cost airline headquartered in Calgary, has announced it’s largest ever International route expansion to start this fall. WestJet plans to capitalize on demand to sun and beach destinations throughout the US, Caribbean, Mexico and beyond, including Cuba. The details are confusing, but you will find a list below of [...]
