American Airlines said Monday it would begin nonstop flights between New York and Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Jan. 20. Haneda is considered more practical than its sister airport Narita as it is loca...
Continental Airlines has launched a new feature called FareLock, which offer customers who pay a fee an option to lock in ticket prices without committing to buy a ticket for 72 hours or a week wit...
Official figures from the US Departmenmt of Transport’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics show US airlines have earned $2.5 billion so far in 2010 on baggage fees alone. This is a 22.5% raise ove...
Continental Airlines has confirmed it has filed an appeal of the French court’s verdict which found it of involuntary homicide through the crash of Concorde in July 2000. Continental had been orde...
Passengers travelling to the East of the US are being warned to expect more cancelled and delayed flights due to heavy snow. After more than a thousand flights were cancelled in Chicago, passengers...
Bruce Ashby, former CEO of IndiGo, has been appointed the chief executive of the global airline alliance oneworld, succeeding John McCulloch, when the alliance moves its headquarters to New York fr...
Spirit AeroSystems has begun shipping the 11.5-metre carbon-fiber outer spar components for the Airbus A350 XWB aircraft. The spar component joins with inner and mid spars to form the leading edge spa...
Nicolas Ferri has been appointed vice president overseeing all of Delta Air Lines’ commercial activities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Previously Ferri was a sales and marketing vice presiden...
New York City will become the new home city for the oneworld alliance. The alliance is moving its central alliance team from Vancover to NYC to help establish oneworld as the foremost airline allia...
Friends of the Earth has called on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to cut the lead content in the aviation fuel – a line it has been pushing since 2003. The EPA has identified 16 regions...
United Technologies has announced it expects 2011 revenue to fall short of Wall Street expectations, even though sales are up across its subsidiary businesses apart from Pratt & Whitney. The firm ...
Fitch Ratings has stated that as long as fares and revenues keep rising, US airlines post positive results in 2011. “The critical driver of credit quality improvement in 2011 will be the continuatio...
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