2018

Low-cost airline Primera Air announced four new transatlantic routes this morning from a new European base in Frankfurt, Germany to cities in North America. The announcement comes on the heels of the airline’s expansion to new transatlantic bases in Brussels and Berlin last month. The new routes will focus on the Northeastern United States and […]

United Airlines, this week, has joined Jetblue Airways in raising their fees for checked bags. Both airlines will now charge customers $30 for the first checked bag. Second checked bags, on United, will cost $40 within the US, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Caribbean and Central America and on United flights to Canada, the second checked […]

An Emirates A380 is being held on the ramp at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport after several passengers became sick. The airline confirmed that 10 passengers were ill with fevers over 102 degrees and coughing. The A380 flying as EK203 landed at 9 in the morning at JFK, with close to 500 passengers onboard […]

After a year of solid growth in the Peruvian domestic market, Viva Air Peru, part of Viva Air, announced that it will begin flying between Lima, Peru and two cities in Colombia beginning in November this year. Ticket sales began this week. Flights from the Peruvian Capital to Bogota and Medellin will begin on November […]

Though fall in the northern hemisphere doesn’t technically begin until Sept. 22, U.S. airlines marked the true end of their summer on Monday with the busiest Labor Day weekend in history, capping off a strong summer with a late-season surge in not only load factors, but also stock prices. A record 16.5 million people were […]

The Government of Chile announced yesterday a plan to reduce the different boarding fees currently charged at its national airports, in an effort to reduce the impact of the fees into airfares and a further reduction of ticket prices. In the last ten years, domestic fares fell 47 percent while boarding fees increased by 28 […]

12 passengers and three flight attendants aboard a Hawaiian Airlines plane from Oakland, Calif. to Kahului, on the island of Maui, were given medical attention after a can of pepper spray went off in the cabin. A passenger had illegally brought a can of pepper spray aboard the Boeing 767 aircraft and the can discharged […]

As analysts, we tend to think about commercial aviation in a country merely considering the outbound routes and the domestic connections. But by forgetting the inbound aspect of the operation, we miss half of the picture. Last week, in an event held in Buenos Aires, Lufthansa Group’s airline Edelweiss announced the main characteristics of the […]

In 2010 European aircraft manufacturer Airbus launched the Airbus A320neo (new engine option) family, which took the already successful narrow-body family and improved fuel burn and operating efficiency. The program garnered huge numbers of orders, breaking records for a new aircraft with an order backlog totaling over 1,000 by mid-2011. On August 30, 2011, recognizing […]

While most Americans were mourning the end of the summer over Labor Day Weekend, Qantas was celebrating the beginning of a new era, the era of the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. On Saturday, Qantas inaugurated a new route from Melbourne to San Francisco on the aircraft, as well as replaced its iconic Boeing 747-400 aircraft on […]