The story started last night, when Jaunted reported that startup airline JetAmerica would not let you book tickets in July on their website, even though their reported launch date is July 13. “There is a problem with our server,” said a JetAmerica employee when Jaunted phoned the reservations number. “[The website] is only booking flights […]
The last Lufthansa Airbus A300 flight flew earlier today, as the culmination of the airline’s plans to phase out the 26-strong fleet. Lufthansa flight 3853, operated by aircraft D-AIAM, left Rome and arrived in Frankfurt shortly past 9:00am local time. The A300s have been a key part of Lufthansa’s ‘continental’ fleet since 1987, and the […]
OpenSkies, the all-business-class airline, operating nonstop flights between New York (JFK) and Amsterdam (Schiphol) and between New York (JFK and Newark) and Paris (Orly), celebrates the first anniversary of its inaugural launch.
Since OpenSkies first took flight last year, it has carried more than 92,000 passengers on both routes. Through the airline’s two business class options […]
The 2009 J.D. Power and Associates 2009 North American Airline Satisfaction Study was released earlier today, and jetBlue came out top, not just in the low-cost carrier group but overall, as well - for the fourth year in a row. For the ‘traditional network carrier’ category, Alaska topped the list for the second consecutive year. […]
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That’s right - CCTV is reporting that Chinese carrier Spring Airlines is looking at standing-room only flights on some of its Airbus A320s. The airline, billed as the first low-cost carrier in China, will try to get regulatory approval for the idea by the end of the year. Apparently, the new passenger layout means that […]
The Department of Justice recently expressed objections to the antitrust immunity agreement that nine Star Alliance carriers (plus Continental, which will be a Star member later this year) are seeking. The airlines, which include United, Lufthansa, Air Canada, SAS and Swiss (but notably, not US Airways), have been looking to obtain global immunity from antitrust […]
Last month’s Air New Zealand TV ad was enormously popular, having generated almost two million views on YouTube (and also a lot of free publicity). Seeking to build upon that, the airline has released a new safety video for its Boeing 737-300 aircraft, featuring crew members wearing nothing but body paint. Maybe this will cause […]
One more airline adds a ‘retrojet’ to its fleet. Continental has recently taken delivery of a brand-new Boeing 737-900ER that’s painted in ‘The Blue Skyway’ livery, in preparation for the airline’s 75th anniversary on July 15. The paintjob was first used on Continental planes back in 1947. Here you can see it on a DC-7 […]
Looks like the Indian government is getting set to perform a bailout of ailing flag carrier Air India, which has lost almost $1 billion in the last fiscal year. Indian Civil Aviation minister Praful Patel sounded an awful lot like Barack Obama talking about GM when he said that “it doesn’t mean there is a […]