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Southwest Airlines Expands Its Networks, Grows At Long Beach Airport
After the devastating operational meltdown that left hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded across the United States during last year’s holiday season, Southwest Airlines has resumed its “business as usual” mode doing what it has been doing best for over 50 years: flying customers and delivering results for its investors. Despite the cost of the […]
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Las Vegas To Break Passenger Record, Nears Maximum Capacity
In the next few days, Las Vegas’ Harry Reid International Airport is going to release the final passenger figures for 2022, and it is expected that the total number of travelers that passed through the main Nevada airport will be the highest in its history. Passenger numbers had peaked in 2019 at 51,537,638 before seeing […]
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Norwegian Low-Cost Airline Flyr Declares Bankruptcy
After only 19 months of operations, Norwegian low-cost airline Flyr has been forced to suspend all its operations and plans to file for bankruptcy. “Flyr was unsuccessful with the new financial plan and the board concluded on Tuesday evening that there are no alternatives for further operation. The company will file for bankruptcy on Wednesday […]
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Bad Weather, Operational Issues Force Southwest Airlines to Cancel Two-Thirds of Flights, More Cancelations Ahead
The week leading to Christmas is usually a very busy travel period in North America, but this year it has been made particularly chaotic by Winter Storm Elliot, an extra-tropical bomb cyclone that created blizzard conditions over large parts of the United States and Canada and wreaked havoc into airline schedules. Almost 20,000 flights have […]
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London City Airport Asks for Permission to Increase Passenger Numbers
London City Airport, one of the five airports serving the Metropolitan area of London, and one of the only two inside the M25 orbital, has filed an application to change its existing planning permission in order to increase its traffic by 38%. Located in the East London Borough of Newham, just a few miles away […]
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Virgin Atlantic Withdraws Support to London Heathrow’s Third Runway
The plans of London Heathrow Airport — the British capital’s main international airport — to pursue planning permission for a third runway suffered a big setback earlier this week, as Virgin Atlantic, one of the two carriers based at the airport, withdrew its unconditional support to the project, as a reaction to the airport’s proposed […]
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Canada, India Expand Bilateral Agreement to Allow Unlimited Frequencies
As China continues to pursue its zero-Covid-19 strategy imposing heavy restrictions on international travel and countries in East Asia continue to feel the impact of the closure of Russian air space to European and North American carriers, efforts are being made to boost commercial relationships with other Asian countries that represent viable commercial partners for […]
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Delta Air Lines’ Pilots Ready to Strike For Better Pay
As airlines in North America are shrugging off the horrible months of the pandemic and balance sheets start looking rosier again, all the issues that had been put aside to survive the most devastating crisis commercial aviation has ever encountered are now resurfacing and calling for a solution. On Oct. 31, the overwhelming majority of […]
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Trip Report: Flair Airlines Challenges the “Big Boys” in Canada
Despite being the second largest country in the world with a very sparse population and vast distances among its main cities, air transport in Canada has not evolved as it has in most of the other G8 countries. The market is mainly controlled by two large carriers, Air Canada and WestJet, and fares are quite […]
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American Airlines To Settle Baggage Fees Class Action Lawsuit
American Airlines has reached an out-of-court settlement in order to put to rest a class action lawsuit that was brought against them by up to 2.8 million passengers that claim they were “improperly charged” baggage fees between 2013 and 2021. The lawsuit originated from the action of five passengers who claimed the airline broke its […]