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 [...]
Etihad Airways, the state airline of the United Arab Emirates, plans an increase its Abu Dhabi to Frankfurt flights from 10 to 13 each week starting on December 12 and eventually increasing to twice daily service on March 28, 2010.
Etihad’s flights to Frankfurt, which were launched in June 2005, are among the most popular of its European services, [...]
The Dubai Air Show is over, and the order tally is starkly lower than previous years. Airbus beat Boeing at this years air show in Dubai with Airbus selling 33 aircraft and Boeing selling 11 planes. This is in stark contrast to the Dubai Air Show of 2007 when Airbus sold 297 planes and Boeing [...]
Air Austral of France will purchase two new Airbus A380 superjumbo aircraft. The two aircraft, typically outfitted with about 525 to 550 seats, will be all-coach, no frills seating allowing for more than 800 seats on each aircraft – the highest number of seats on a single aircraft ever. There is no delivery dates releases [...]
Milwaukee beat out Denver and Indianapolis for the new home of Republic Airways which now owns both Midwest Airlines and Frontier Airlines. Milwaukee offered a superior incentive package to Republic which is now going to pave the way for about 800 new jobs for the Milwaukee area as well as preserving about 700 current Midwest [...]
Midwest Airlines, now a subsidiary of Republic Airlines, has announced two new routes to its hub at Milwaukee Airport.
On April 1, 2010, Midwest will inaugurate two daily flights between Milwaukee and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina using 76-seat Embraer 170 aircraft. On April 19, 2010, Midwest will launch daily flights to San Franciso, California – a market [...]
Air New Zealand has announced their intention to purchase 14 new Aibus A320 aircraft from European Airbus to replace their domestic fleet of 15 Boeing 737-300 aircraft that are soon going to be returned to the lessor.
The A320’s will begin to arrive in January 2011 and continue through 2016 as the leases expire on the [...]
United Airlines has announced the addition of one-daily round-trip flight between San Francisco and St. Louis. American Airlines announced last month that they would substantially dismantle the remnants of the TWA St. Louis hub that it acquired years ago leaving many key destinations without non-stop service.
Just yesterday, Southwest announced an addition of flights to various [...]
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. [...]
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Moscow visited the Boeing design center located there. Boeing is hoping to win a competitive contract against Airbus to supply the Russian state-run airline Rosavia with an expected order of 65 narrow-body aircraft.
Russian Airlines, locally known as Rosavia, has been created by the state of Russia to compensate for [...]
Ryanair, currently operating an all-Boeing fleet, is expected to make it’s decision to purchase up to 200 new narrow-body aircraft from either Boeing or Airbus by the end of this year.
Ryanair has been widely expected to select to continue operating the Boeing fleet, but both aircraft makers have been struggling to find customers leading to [...]
Midwest Airlines announced that on November 9 it will cease operating the carriers main fleet type – the Boeing 717. The new owners of Midwest, Republic Airlines, will replace all Boeing 717 flights with either regional jets or shared Airbus jets from their new partner, Frontier Airlines.
The Midwest pilots are not happy about the change. [...]
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 [...]
Wizz Air, the fast-growing Eastern European carrier, will add a third Airbus A320 to its Sofia, Bulgaria base in May 2010. This new aircraft will allow Wizz Air to expand routes out of Bulgaria to Frankfurt, Germany; Bologna, Italy; Paris, France; and Madrid, Spain. Each new destination will initially be served with three weekly flights [...]
Starting this November five of Frontier Airlines Airbus A319 jets will be moved to fly out of Milwaukee on behalf of Midwest Airlines – their new partner airline. At the same time, five of Midwest Airlines Embraer 190 regional jets will move to Denver, Frontier’s hub, to replace the Airbus jets and operate on select routes.
Republic [...]
Hawaiian Airlines has announced some changes to their schedules for next summer. The airline will add new service between Maui and San Diego as well as between Maui and Oakland. Both of these flights will be daily service and operate for the summer market peak season.
The airline will also add a second daily flight between [...]
