Delta Airlines has announced schedule changes for next summer that will increase cooperation with Air France/KLM, Alaska Airlines and capitalize on additional synergies with former Northwest Airlines that it acquired last fall. 

This summer schedule and changes is the first fully combined schedule since merging with Northwest Airlines.  The new routes will be trans-Pacific, trans-Atlantic & Africa.  [...]

Olympic Airlines went away earlier this year and is being reborn as a new carrier with a slightly shorter name – Olympic Air.  Many changes are taking place as the new carrier is being readied for October 1 launch of service. 

Olympic Air, bought by an investment holding company, will no longer offer long-haul routes at [...]

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 [...]

Mexicana Airlines of Mexico said today that they intend to join the Oneworld global airline alliance this November.  Oneworld currently does not have a Mexican airline partner but features British Airways and American Airlines.  Iberia Airlines of Spain was the sponsor airline for Mexicana to join Oneworld.

The other large carrier in Mexico, AeroMexico, is a [...]

The stakes just got raised in the Japan Airlines partner negotiations.  Until now, it was Delta Airlines, the world’s largest, combined with fellow SkyTeam partners Air France/KLM that seemed to hold many of the cards in their quest to get JAL to jump ship from OneWorld and join SkyTeam.  But now, American, for a while [...]

Since the announcement earlier today that Air France/KLM were working with Delta on a possible investment in Japan Airlines, it was expected that British Airways would join their OneWorld partner American Airlines to try to sweeten their offer to attempt to keep JAL in OneWorld. 

It is possible, if the Delta & Air France/KLM offer of [...]

Joining the talks with Japan Airlines about possible cash infusion, stake buying and code-sharing, Air France/KLM have upped the ante.  The European airline group is looking to also infuse much needed cash into Japan Airlines in return for a stake of the company as well as an agreement to coordinate through code-share and SkyTeam alliance [...]

Now that the U.S. SkyTeam partner has changed with the Delta Airlines acquisition of Northwest Airlines last year, we thought it would be good to take a look at the current make-up of the SkyTeam airline alliance.  No longer a Northwest/KLM venture, SkyTeam has been changing as the face of the global airline industry has [...]

Czech Airlines, the state owned and operated airline for the Czech Republic, is seeking a buyer to divest the government of the money losing airline.  There were initially a few interested buyers, however Aeroflot did not meet the criteria, and KLM/Air France dropped out of the process.   That leaves the hopes of being bought to [...]

Air France took delivery of it’s first A380 aircraft from Airbus painted in its updated Air France livery.  The plane will enter service in November on the Paris Charles de Gaulle to New York John F. Kennedy route. 

What is very interesting is that this A380 is configured for three cabins and 538 passengers.  This compares [...]

Since the Air France crash of an Airbus A330 over the Atlantic earlier this month that killed all 228 passengers and crew on board, there have been two incidents of failing altitude and airspeed indicators on A330’s. 

One incident was on a flight between the U.S. and Brazil on a TAM Airlines A330 from Miami to [...]