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American Closes Mexico City to Philadelphia Route

Over the weekend, American Airlines made a change in its reservation system, indicating the airline will be stopping its service between its Northeastern hub in Philadelphia and Mexico City on Jan. 9, 2019, according to a Flightglobal report. The daily flight, operated by an A319, was recently launched in early July of this year, in a move that allowed American to conveniently connect Philadelphia as well as secondary markets in the Northeast with Mexico City. However, numbers have not been…

SAS Introduces New Vegan Menu

Airlines are often criticized for overall food quality and services. Last month, a vegan passenger took a Thomas Cook flight from Manchester, United Kingdom to New York in which she paid for a vegetarian meal for herself, but the airline messed it up and had to serve her crisps and nuts…

Jet Airways Sees Heavy Losses While Continuing to Struggle in…

Jet Airways is facing a tough scenario, as it is taking heavy losses per a combination of rising costs and steep income deprecation. The tough industry environment in the backdrop of a sharp rise in Brent fuel price by more than 50 percent over Q2 FY18, a depreciating rupee and…

El Al Relaunches Manchester to Tel Aviv route

Israel’s flag carrier airline El Al has announced a new nonstop service from Manchester Airport to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport, scheduled to start on May 26, 2019. El Al also serves the route from London’s Heathrow airport but will be the sole full-service airline to operate this route…

Turkish Airlines Announces Record Nine Month Profit, Begins Operations from…

Turkish Airlines reported this week that in the first nine months of 2018 they have achieved a net profit of $755 million, a 300 percent increase versus the same period of 2017. The airline has made significant gains in most of the metrics used to measure airline performance. Revenue rose by…

Opinion: Why We Can Never Forget Commercial Aircraft Accidents

On Oct. 29, Lion Air flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta, killing all 189 passengers and crew onboard. Just over a month earlier—on Sept. 28—Air Niugini flight 73 crashed in Micronesia, leaving one dead. On May 18, 112 perished as Cubana de Aviación…

Fly Jamaica Aircraft Suffers Hydraulic Issues Inflight, Overshoots Runway on…

A Boeing 757-200 aircraft operated by Caribbean carrier Fly Jamaica was badly damaged after a landing incident in Georgetown, Guyana early Friday morning that saw the aircraft overshooting the runway. The Toronto-bound aircraft had taken off from Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Guyana before it had to return to the…

Exclusive: TAP Air Portugal’s Transatlantic A321neos Will Feature Lie-Flat Seats…

TAP Air Portugal is under massive renovation and rejuvenation, bringing in new aircraft at a steady pace and is undergoing a refresh of it's domestic and long-haul fleet with JetBlue founder David Neeleman at the helm. TAP has 19 Airbus A330-900neos on order, featuring Airbus' Airspace interior, and plenty other aircraft…

Eurowings Eyeing Long-Haul Flights from Frankfurt

When Lufthansa decided to enter the low-cost long-haul market with its subsidiary Eurowings three years ago, the initial plan had been to use the Cologne-Bonn Airport in Western Germany as the hub and main departure point for its operations. Initially, the airline did not want to create competition to itself by…

Argentina: Domestic Market Grows While International Traffic Plunges

The Argentinian Aviation Authority has released its statistics for the month of October, which show a steady growth on domestic traffic, but a steep descent in international passenger demand. October is a key month for Argentinian aviation as Norwegian Air Argentina recently began service amongst a field of various low-cost…