Category: AIRLINES & AIRPORTS

Another Strong Year for Airline Profits in 2017

Reading Time: 6 minutes The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that it expects the global airline industry to make a net profit in 2017 of $29.8 billion. On forecast total revenues of $736 billion, that represents a 4.1% net profit margin. This will be the third consecutive year (and the third year in the industry’s history) in which […]

Aeroflot Group to Carry 43.5 Million Passengers in 2016

Reading Time: < 1 minute Russia’s Aeroflot Group will carry 43.5 million passengers in 2016, up 10.4% year-over-year (YOY), Aeroflot Airline CEO Vitaly Savelyev at the group’s community board meeting. According to a group statement, its low-cost subsidiary Pobeda Airlines has strengthened its position this year. The Moscow Vnukovo-based airline is projected to carry 4.2 million passengers in 2016, up […]

Air Canada Expands US Transborder Network

Reading Time: < 1 minute Air Canada plans to expand its US transborder network when it starts its spring schedule in May 2017, adding three new destinations. All of the new services will be operated by Air Canada Express regional aircraft. San Antonio, Memphis and Savannah, Georgia will be new Air Canada destinations served from Toronto nonstop. San Antonio and […]

Wizz Air Grows Passenger Numbers By 19% in November

Reading Time: < 1 minute Wizz Air Holdings Plc (“Wizz Air”) today announces passenger statistics for November 2016. In November 2016, Wizz Air continued to expand its network, strengthen its customer offering and operations with the following announcements: Launch of a new fare category called “WIZZ Go”. Both “WIZZ Go” and “WIZZ Plus” offer customers a discounted package price over […]

Norwegian to Increase Low-Cost USA Flights By Over 50% Next Summer

Reading Time: 3 minutes Low-cost airline Norwegian is expanding its award-winning low-cost long-haul network with a 55 per cent increase in the number of flights to the US from next summer. Brits will have more affordable choices to visit the US with a sharp increase in the number of flights from 22 to 34 flights per week on Norwegian’s […]

Ryanair November Traffic Grows 15% to 8.8 Million Customers

Reading Time: < 1 minute Ryanair released November traffic statistics as follows: traffic grew 15% to 8.8m customers, load factor rose 2% points to 95%, rolling annual traffic to Nov grew 16% to 115.5m customers.   Ryanair’s Kenny Jacobs said: Ryanair’s November traffic grew by 15% to 8.8m customers, on the back of lower fares and the continuing success of […]

Air Belgium is Closer to Its Launch: Hiring Pilots and Cabin Crew

Reading Time: 3 minutes Air Belgium seems to be one step closer to its launch, on its website you can now find 2 new career options: cabin crew and cockpit crew. Air Belgium is particularly looking for cabin crew that speaks Mandarin, we can assume that there will be Chinese destinations, meanwhile the pilots require experience on the A320, A330 […]

Qatar Airways Announces Eight New Destinations for 2017-18

Reading Time: 2 minutes Qatar Airways, the award-winning and fastest growing airline in the world, announced eight more destinations for 2017-18, in addition to seven previously announced new cities for a total of 15 new gateways. Joining the Qatar Airways’ route network, which spans more than 150 destinations on six continents around the world, are: Canberra, the airline’s fifth […]

Delta Air Lines Receives its First U.S.-Produced Airbus Aircraft

Reading Time: 2 minutes The first delivery of an A321 aircraft from the Airbus U.S. Manufacturing Facility to Delta Air Lines took place, in Mobile, Alabama. On hand for the occasion were executives from Airbus and Delta Air Lines, a team of Delta employees from the airline’s Minneapolis-St. Paul station, and representatives of the more than 370 employees at […]

Eurowings Cabin Crew Reach Wage Agreement

Reading Time: < 1 minute Lufthansa Group low-cost (LCC) subsidiary Eurowings and German public services trade union Verdi have reached a labor agreement for cabin crews. According to the agreement, flight attendants will see a 2.5% wage increase backdated from Oct. 1, 2016; a further 2.5% increase Oct.1, 2017; and another 1.25% increase Oct. 1, 2018. Eurowings cabin chiefs (Chefs […]