Reading Time: < 1 minute Wizz Air has reopened its summer base at Burgas, on the Bulgarian Black Sea. The base opened last year and is one of a minority of airports at which European airlines station aircraft and crew for a few months in the summer season. The departure of Wizz Air flight W64211 that left Burgas on June […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Ryanair has announced its biggest ever investment in Kraków, worth $800 million: 73 routes are planned, including 10 new ones, at its largest Polish base for the summer season. The airline will be operating 260 flights a week, over 40 more than it did in 2019, Michał Kaczmarzyk, CEO of Polish-based Ryanair subsidiary Buzz, said […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute London Stansted Airport is getting ready to reveal its updated portfolio of retail and dining outlets as part of a £12 million investment in the departures lounge. It will be complete before the summer season and an expected upturn in passenger numbers compared to the past two years. “We want everyone using London Stansted to […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute The beginning of July marked the renewal of air services in many countries and for many operators. For example, low-coster Ryanair has returned to flying with over 1,000 daily flights all across Europe in July. By introducing more flights, Ryanair is placing back on track with almost 90% of its pre-Covid-19 route network. Although frequencies […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes The industry trade organization for the leading U.S. airlines expects a record 246.1 million passengers — an average of 2.68 million per day — to travel on U.S. airlines between June 1 and Aug. 31, 2018. This number is up 3.7 percent from last year’s record 237.3 million passengers. The nation’s carriers are adding 116,000 […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute With fuel coming second only to wages as an airline’s greatest outgoing, a period of critical planning awaits them with rising prices coinciding with the traditionally busy summer season. In 2018 alone jet fuel prices have risen 15 percent, while over the last twelve months they have risen by approximately 60 percent. With schedules and […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Emirates, the world’s biggest long-haul airline, said a rebound in earnings over the past year faces a challenge this summer as a pilot shortage forces the Dubai-based carrier to trim frequencies. The revival will come under pressure as a shortfall of 100 to 150 pilots compels Emirates to pare frequencies to destinations including Fort Lauderdale […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Since the end of last summer, United Airlines has been preparing for this summer’s busy flying season, which kicks off June 1. “I think we’re better prepared this summer than I’ve ever seen us prepared, so I’m conservatively having a very positive outlook on what our performance will be,” says Don Wright, VP maintenance operations. […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes American Airlines has revealed 26 new routes to be served from five of its hubs. In a memo to employees, American Airlines President Robert Isom praised the company’s achievements through this year — which includes seven days without a mainline flight cancellation and an improving revenue trend — before looking forward to the busy summer […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Air France will begin 3X-weekly Paris Charles de Gaulle-Accra (Ghana, West Africa) services on Feb. 28, 2017. Beginning March 28, 2017, Air France’s 208-seat Airbus A330 service will be upgraded to a 312-seat Boeing 777-200 for the summer season. Air France chairman and CEO Frédéric Gagey said partner KLM Royal Dutch Airlines operates daily flights […]