Aer Lingus is continuing its transformation into a key player in the European aviation market, announcing this week that it will reintroduce a business class product into the short-haul market for the first time since 2002. As AirlineGeeks previously reported, Aer Lingus will refresh its brand, livery and uniform in 2019 coinciding with the arrival of the first A321LRs into its fleet with this week’s announcement adding to that image overhaul. Outgoing Chief Executive Stephen Kavanagh told The Irish Times this…
Icelandic low-cost carrier WOW Air is announcing that it will retire nine aircraft and will begin cutting several more of its long-haul routes. The proposed fleet reduction will see the airline's fleet drop from 20 aircraft to just eleven, in which all of the carrier's Airbus A330s will no longer…
During a conference on Wednesday to discuss new international routes out of San Francisco, the CEO of United Airlines made his first public comments on the safety of the 737 MAX. His comments came over a month after Lion Air Flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea on Oct. 29,…
As Minnesota's Sun Country Airlines approaches its one-year anniversary of being introduced into Apollo Global Management, the airline has started to see management and brand changes come to fruition. The Minneapolis-based leisure airline has actively rebranded itself this last fiscal year and is looking for ways to reduce costs for…
TAP Air Portugal announced yesterday the addition of service to San Francisco from Lisbon starting in June 2019. This is the Portuguese flag carrier's first West Coast destination in the United States and comes shortly following the announcement of new routes from Lisbon to Chicago and Washington. This will be…
One of the three Airbus A380s on order to Japan's All Nippon Airlines (ANA) has rolled out of the paint shop in Hamburg, completing a 21-day paint job featuring the blue turtles of Hawaii. https://twitter.com/Airbus/status/1073169801336578048 Design of the livery for the double-decker was part of a competition in 2016 where…
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the newly-formed Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region of Europe would become a melting pot of new privatized airlines looking to capitalize on new markets and untapped services inside these newly independent nations. This trend would see airline rise in fall in the…
With an impending fleet loss of 20 percent of its aircraft, Aviance Brazil has filed for bankruptcy. A Reuters report issued over the weekend claimed that a Brazilian court threatened to take away 20 percent of Avianca Brasil’s fleet due to failures to pay debts to the aircraft lessors, the catalyst to…
A federal judge in São Paulo acted in favor of a class action moved by Brazilian congressman Paulo Pimenta and Carlos Zaratini from the worker’s party (PT) halting temporarily the merger of aircraft manufacturers Boeing and Embraer. According to the judge, the sentence was necessary to wait until the new…
Spirit has announced they would begin service to Indianapolis this Spring. The announcement will see Spirit operate three routes from the Circle City. The airline will operate daily year-round flights to Orlando and Las Vegas, while thrice weekly, seasonal flights will be operated to Myrtle Beach. Flights to Orlando and…
