DALLAS - Canadian low-cost carrier Swoop (WK) has announced its plans to grow its fleet and domestic route network during the upcoming summer season. Swoop expects the summer travel season to generate significant demand for domestic and international travel and is preparing to meet that demand.
The Asia-Pacific region will get past its current doldrums and return to leading the world in air transport growth. The region will need 17,620 new aircraft by 2040, Airbus predicts in its latest forecast.
Ahead of growing concerns about border requirements for upcoming half-term holidays, the Spanish government has announced that it will be dropping restrictions that require British teenagers to be fully vaccinated before entering the country. Spain's previous policy required all over-12's to provide proof of double vaccination and a booster if...
Virgin Australia and Delta Air Lines have formally ended their trans-Pacific Joint Venture relationship, ahead of Virgin's new partnership with United Airlines taking wing in April 2022.
Sky Express has joined Worldwide by easyJet.
American Airlines announced it has signed a definitive investment agreement with GOL, Brazil's largest airline. "This agreement deepens the relationship between the two carriers to create the broadest and most rewarding network in the Americas," the airline wrote in a press release. The combined networks will provide customers with more than 30...
Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines, the two largest low-cost carriers in the U.S., have agreed to merge in a deal valued at $6.6 billion, creating what would become the fifth-largest airline in the country.
The board of Kuwait-based budget airline Jazeera Airways approved a $3.4 billion deal to buy 28 narrow-body aircraft from Airbus to expand its fleet across markets in the Middle East parts of Europe.
Boeing on Monday won a firm launch order for 34 of its 777-8 Freighters from Qatar Airways and signed a separate memorandum of understanding covering as many as 50 of its 737 Max 10s for the Qatari national carrier. Signed during a White House ceremony attended by Qatari Ambassador Sheikh Mishaal bin Hamad Al Thani, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina...
El Al (LY) has informed the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) that it has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to acquire rival airline Arkia Airlines (IZ). The move comes following previous merger talks reported in late 2021.
Airlines are altering schedules to limit their exposure to Ukrainian airspace, while continuing flights into and out of the country as its standoff with Russian troops massed at the border intensifies.
Darwin-based Airnorth is now flying a pair of Embraer E-190 jets in addition to its E-170 jets. The jets are busy flying to bigger ports on Airnorth's network, including Gove, Cairns, Kununurra, and Perth.
easyJet, Europe's leading airline, is celebrating the 20-year anniversary of its base at London Gatwick airport.
The restoration of services will include Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Dar El Salaam, Tanzania; Nairobi, Kenya; Harare, Zimbabwe; as well as Emirates' three South African gateways Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.
A new Australian startup Bonza that will only start flying in the middle of 2022, says it has been swamped with job applications.
