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.  [...]

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 [...]

Delta Airlines and it’s global airline alliance SkyTeam have offered an aid package of $1 billion to struggling Japan Airlines, JAL.  Immediately, though, current OneWorld partner with JAL, American Airlines, said that together with other OneWorld partners British Airways and Iberia, they would top that offer of aid hoping to convince JAL to stick with [...]

Continental Airlines officially leaves SkyTeam and becomes a member of the Star Alliance today joining United Airlines, US Airways and other International carriers including Lufthansa. 

By landing in the Star Alliance Continental will bring a much needed emphasis on two markets for that global airline alliance.  Many have said for some time that the Star Alliance [...]

Japan Airlines has decided to put current discussions about investment and cooperation with Delta Airlines and American Airlines on hold.  JAL is struggling to implement an aggressive but much needed restructuring to stave off continuing record breaking losses. 

This is good news for American Airlines and the Oneworld airline alliance as it keeps JAL in their [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

American Airlines, aware of the Delta Airlines possible investment and tie-up with Japan Airlines, has entered the equation.  American is in talks now with JAL on a possible minority stake in the airline to give JAL much needed cash.  This is similar to the deal announced Friday that Delta is working on with JAL.  The [...]

Delta, the world’s largest airline, is in talks with Japan Airlines, the largest air operator in that country, to take a financial stake in Japan Airlines as it struggles with mounting losses.  Japan Airlines reported a $1.1 billion loss in the last quarter and is in the process of outlining major restructuring plans that include [...]

American Airlines continues to be investigated by the FAA over potential improper maintenance of their fleet of 244 MD-80 aircraft that makes up nearly 50% of American’s fleet.  You probably remember this going on for some time with very damaging groundings of MD-80’s for American and other airlines late last year.

American is also being investigated [...]