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Korean Air Introduces the New Prestige Class on Airbus A321neo

Korean Air began operations with its Pratt & Whitney-powered Airbus A321neo aircraft, the newest model in the company's fleet. The new A321neo features a new Prestige Class product with a fully reclining seat, the only South Korean company to offer this feature on a narrowbody aircraft. Korean Air's first service of the A321neo was on November 30 on flight KE 1027, which took off from Seoul-Gimpo Airport (GMP) at 09:34 local time and landed at Jeju International Airport (CJU) at…

Trip Report: Sun Country Inaugural at Eau Claire

Minneapolis-based Sun Country Airlines has been expanding a lot recently with a major announcement a couple of weeks ago adding 12 new destinations to their route map. However, out of all the destinations they could've announced, Eau Claire, Wis. is not one I would place bets on. SkyWest under the…

Airbus-CERN Partnership to Develop Superconducting Tchnologies to Decarbonize Aviation

A few days ago, Airbus UpNext, entered into a partnership with CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory (located in Geneva, Switzerland) to carry out a research project to evaluate how superconductivity can contribute to the decarbonization of future aviation systems. Airbus UpNext is a branch of Airbus that explores…

Smooth Thanksgiving Holiday Travel After Chaotic Summer

Despite having a chaotic summer of air travel, US airlines performed well during Thanksgiving week. According to the flight tracking website FlightAware, US airlines canceled a total of 441 flights across the week. Calm weather across the continental US kept the airlines moving. The only exception was a major storm…

Severe Pilot Shortage Cited For Dramatic Loss of U.S. Regional…

A recent report from the Regional Airline Association (RAA) noted that 76 percent of U.S. airports lost air services when comparing figures from October 2022 with the same month in 2019. Of those 324 airports, the average loss equated to 31 percent of flights that were operated three years prior.…

34th Anniversary of Air Europa’s First Transatlantic Flight

On November 30, 1988, Air Europa performed its first transatlantic service in a twin-engine aircraft. It is 34 years since this operation marked an important milestone in being the first Spanish airline to perform an ETOPS flight. The ETOPS (Extended-range Twin-engine Operations Performance Standards) regulation was issued in 1985 and…

Flights to Cuba: Neos connects Cayo Largo del Sur and…

On November 19, Italian carrier Neos resumed its flights between Milan (MXP) and Cayo Largo del Sur (CYO) with a stopover in Havana (HAV) after almost three years. With this new operation, the leisure airline will offer up to four destinations in Cuba. Flight NO 601 landed at Vilo Acuña…

Airbus A220 – Corporate Business Jet Competition

In October 2020, Airbus announced they would offer the A220-100 as an Airbus Corporate Jet (ACJ), known as the ACJ TwoTwenty. The Toulouse, France-based manufacturer had limited success marketing the A319 as an ACJ with only around 70 currently operating as a corporate jet. So what makes them think they…

Merger with Vistara Ushers Promising Future for Air India

Indian conglomerate TATA Group has announced it is merging Indian flag carrier Air India with the Singapore Airlines joint-venture airline, Vistara. The move looks to bolster Air India’s presence in Asia and provide a facelift to an Air India that in the last few years has been hanging on by…

Korean Air Enters Volare, ITA Airways’ Loyalty Program

TA Airways and Korean Air strengthen their partnership beyond the Skyteam alliance with the signing of a frequent flyer agreement as part of Volare, the Italian flag carrier's loyalty program. Korean Air, a founding member of Skyteam, is the leading South Korean airline in Italy and the first airline partner…