Turkey’s national flag carrier Turkish Airlines announced it will launch regular flights to Vancouver, Canada in a statement posted on the Public Disclosure Platform on Tuesday. Turkish Airlines was founded in 1933 with five aircraft in its fleet. Now they have over 340 aircraft, including passenger and cargo planes. Last year, the company carried 75.2 […]
The Trump administration plans to impose tariffs on $7.5 billion worth of European imports, from Gouda cheese to single-malt whiskey to large aircraft, beginning October 18. What happened? Donald Trump’s administration is moving to impose 25 percent tariffs on a wide range of imports from the EU this month. This will including cheese, olives, business […]
Air France has taken delivery of their first A350-900, it is the first of 28 on order. The first jet was handed over to Anne Rigail, Air France’s Chief Executive Officer, and Benjamin Smith, Air France-KLM Group Chief Executive Officer during a ceremony held in Toulouse, France. The new Airbus A350 The new aircraft is […]
Delta Air Lines on Thursday announced a deal to buy a 20% stake in LATAM Airlines Group for $1.9 billion. The proposed partnership with LATAM Airlines represents Delta Air Lines’s largest investment in a foreign carrier and is a competitive strike against American Airlines in Latin America. The Delta deal In recent years, Delta has […]
AirAsia X has long talked about flights to California. They intended on using their Airbus A330. The first aircraft has finally been delivered so the airline has hinted at the California route yet again. AirAsia X has been interested in flying to the US for some time now. They began flights to Honolulu several days […]
– Marriott and Starwood are out with the new award chart for their combined program (yet to be unnamed) effective August 2018 The long story short – the team has typically rounded up or down most properties. There aren’t any shocking good or bad values suddenly. The best redemption seem to be the formerly unaffordable […]
– Lufthansa is considering a bid for Norwegian as the cash crunch gets worse for the airline Norwegian posted a NOK2.2 billion ($269 million) operating loss in the first quarter equivalent to a minus 31% operating margin. The growing losses come as the airline expanded capacity by 36% in the same period, mainly on its […]
– Cebu’s gorgeous new airport will be open by July 1st – I will check it out next month! – TAP Portugal – an airline with a (much deserved) reputation for being late all the time – is planning to add service to San Francisco – well better late than never! – Chase has revamped […]
– Qantas is telling Boeing and Airbus in stark terms what they want – more range – TAP is planning an Azores service to the US (as Air Acores does) It is short enough to fly on a narrow-body plane (with good ETOPS certification). – Lufthansa is kicking out the Brussels Airlines management after their […]
– Etihad is coming to grips with reality after burning through billions of dollars teh new CEO is taking some baby steps to restructure Etihad confirmed to Reuters it has grounded its Airbus freighter fleet, five A330 Freighters, and that it had opted to operate an all-Boeing 777 Freighter fleet. It declined to comment on […]