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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Alaska Airlines, having just inaugurated new flights between Oakland and Kona and Maui, Hawaii, plans an increase to that service in the spring of 2010. After the new service launch Alaska Airlines will have 73 weekly round-trip flights between the mainland and the Islands of Hawaii.
On March 11, 2010, Alaska will launch three weekly flights between [...]
AirTran Airways continues its aggressive growth in Milwaukee by adding a new destination with its mainline fleet between Milwaukee and Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport. Two new flights between Dallas and Milwaukee will begin on April 6, 2010 and will be operated using AirTran’s newer fleet of Boeing aircraft – the 717 and the 737.
AirTran will also [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Today United Airlines flew the last of its Boeing 737’s into retirement. In the last year, United Airlines has grounded and moth-balled all 94 of their Boeing 737’s – once a staple of their fleet. The aircraft will be stripped down at a San Francisco maintenance hangar and then shipped for storage to the desert.
United [...]
American Airlines is under more pressure from FAA investigators who continue to look into fuselage issues with the large fleet of AA’s MD-80 series aircraft.
Newspapers reported an incident in which an American Airlines MD-80 was found to be in such poor condition that it was not permitted to fly its scheduled flight and was ferried [...]
flydubai, Dubai’s first low-cost airline, will take delivery of it’s fifth aircraft in five months to continue it’s growth strategy. The Boeing 737-800NG is a part of the historic 50-plane order placed last year.
The new aircraft will fly to Doha beginning on October 18. In addition to Doha, Qatar, flydubai also operates service to Beirut, [...]
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 [...]
American Airlines, seeing a threat from both JetBlue and AirTran, has announced the addition of Washington Dulles flights to and from San Juan, Puerto Rico. This service used to operate before cutbacks at San Juan for American. The new service will launch on November 19 and operate daily using Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
JetBlue recently launched daily [...]
Continental Airlines announced today an expansion of their Hawaii service. The airline will add new service between Los Angeles and Maui and between Orange County and Honolulu. Also, the airline will expand the Los Angeles to Honolulu service with a second daily non-stop flight.
The new flights will all be operated with Next Generation 737’s and [...]
Boeing has announced their third quarter and year-to-date deliveries for their commercial aircraft line.
Boeing 737 – 90 delivered; 280 year-to-date
Boeing 747 – 0 delivered; 6 year-to-date
Boeing 767 – 4 delivered; 10 year-to-date
Boeing 777 – 19 delivered; 63 year-to-date
TOTAL – 113 delivered; 359 year-to-date
WestJet, the second-largest airline of Canada based in Calgary, has announced new non-stop flights from both Calgary and Edmonton to Hawaii.
Edmonton will get one flight weekly on Friday’s to Maui using next-generation Boeing 737 aircraft fitted for overwater travel. This flight will operate from March 5 to April 30, and will resume in 2011.
Calgary will [...]
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. [...]
