Delta Airlines, the world’s largest carrier, was granted permission yesterday by the Federal Aviation Administration to operate the two carriers – Delta Airlines and acquired Northwest Airlines – as one, single airline. This involved the FAA granting Delta Airlines a single operating certificate to use for both carriers.
Delta plans to make some of the internal [...]
Continental Airlines, based in Houston, has announced that on March 27, 2010, the airline will launch daily non-stop transatlantic service between their New York hub at Newark Liberty International Airport and Munich, Germany.
This service comes just after Continental is officially integrated into the Star Alliance and is further evidence of their full participation in the [...]
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 [...]
Although airline mergers are always percolating in the industry rumor mill, there has been a noticeable uptick in recent weeks as analysts talk about possible tie-ups. With the acquisition last year of Northwest Airlines by Delta Airlines looking like it should be a success, creating the world’s largest airline, and capacity still over-pacing demand, the [...]
United Airlines has let an agreement for regional flying with Mesa to expire resulting in yet another blow to the beleagured regional airline. United Airlines will no longer utilize 26 CRJ-200 50-passenger regional jets operated by Mesa Airlines for their connection service by April 2010.
Bad news continues to work against Mesa Airlines. It seems their string of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Continental Airlines, just inducted into the Star Alliance yesterday, has announced that they have signed alliances with two Asian airlines that are also Star Alliance members. The new alliances with Asiana of South Korea and ANA of Japan will commence in 2010.
The new alliances will include full partnership benefits such as code-sharing, frequent-flyer benefits, operational [...]
GOL Airlines of Brazil has announced a code-sharing agreement with Iberia Airlines of Spain. The deal does not allow for frequent flyer cooperation, but that may be in the near future. This deal will allow Iberia to sell flights beyond it’s trans-Atlantic segments to Rio de Janiero and Sao Paulo to more than a dozen [...]
GOL of Brazil and AeroMexico have announced their intention to code-share on flights linking Brazil and Mexico. As GOL continues to grow as Brazil’s largest low-cost carrier, the airline seeks to expand relationships to grow market share internationally.
The two airlines are also exploring the possibility of linking their frequent flyer programs as well as any [...]
Now that bmi and Austrian Airlines are solidly in the Lufthansa family of airlines, TAM Airlines of Brazil has expanded their code sharing agreement with the European airlines to include Frequent Flyer cooperation. Now, passengers can earn and redeem miles on each others flights for their preferred program.
This agreement could pave the way for TAM [...]
The long awaited code-share between JetBlue and German airline Lufthansa has commenced today offering JetBlue customers in twelve JetBlue cities easier and convenient access to Lufthansa destinations like Tel Aviv, Frankfurt, Prague and Budapest. Connections are now available to more than 400 destinations in 100 countries vis the worldwide Lufthansa network.
Connections to Europe and beyond [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
